MMA is more consistantly entertaining, while a great boxing match is more exciting then a great MMA match.
Let me put it this way.
You take a list of 100 Boxing matches and a list of 100 MMA matches. The matches range from 4 rounds bum fights to Castillo-Corrales. And the MMA list ranges from joe shmoe who packs groceries for a living, all the way to Kung Lee-Shamrock or w/e, that fight was sick.
Then you take your finger and pick any one fight from either list. The chances of you picking a better MMA fight, is better. However, if you pick CASTILLO-CORRALES, then you just picked a fight that is better then every single fight on that MMA list.
For Example, IMO, Cotto-Margarito will be better then any MMA match this year.
Its just that MMA can be more exciting because they have such smaller gloves. You can see KO after KO after KO. Boxing, you have to have a real power puncher, or a mismatch, to see a brutal KO.
And with MMA, you can put two bums together and get an exciting fight. Bum fights in Boxing are sometimes thrilling, but usually mad sloppy and ugly and boring. See ZELENOFF-HARTLEY. lol
But at the end of the day, Take ANY FOTY from boxing, and its more exciting then ANY MMA match in History.
ANd there is more to boxing then just thrills. Thats why i personally like it better. you get the best of both worlds, Skills and Thrills.
MMA is more consistantly entertaining, while a great boxing match is more exciting then a great MMA match.
Let me put it this way.
You take a list of 100 Boxing matches and a list of 100 MMA matches. The matches range from 4 rounds bum fights to Castillo-Corrales. And the MMA list ranges from joe shmoe who packs groceries for a living, all the way to Kung Lee-Shamrock or w/e, that fight was sick.
Then you take your finger and pick any one fight from either list. The chances of you picking a better MMA fight, is better. However, if you pick CASTILLO-CORRALES, then you just picked a fight that is better then every single fight on that MMA list.
For Example, IMO, Cotto-Margarito will be better then any MMA match this year.
Its just that MMA can be more exciting because they have such smaller gloves. You can see KO after KO after KO. Boxing, you have to have a real power puncher, or a mismatch, to see a brutal KO.
And with MMA, you can put two bums together and get an exciting fight. Bum fights in Boxing are sometimes thrilling, but usually mad sloppy and ugly and boring. See ZELENOFF-HARTLEY. lol
But at the end of the day, Take ANY FOTY from boxing, and its more exciting then ANY MMA match in History.
ANd there is more to boxing then just thrills. Thats why i personally like it better. you get the best of both worlds, Skills and Thrills.
I disagree...
the matchmaking for UFC ppv undercards is better than the matchmaking for Boxing ppv undercards.
IMHO MMA is for people with ADD...And your right you could take 2 BUMS from the streets and fight MMA style and produce an exciting 2 MINUTE KO but in Boxing if you take 2 BUMS OFF THE STREET and make them Box and use movement and angles and how to throw straight punches and turn ur punches properly it would look ridiculous and sloppy. That's why in my eyes Boxing and MMA aren't even close in comparision....A GOOD BOXING MATCH WINS EVERY TIME
MMA is more consistantly entertaining, while a great boxing match is more exciting then a great MMA match.
Let me put it this way.
You take a list of 100 Boxing matches and a list of 100 MMA matches. The matches range from 4 rounds bum fights to Castillo-Corrales. And the MMA list ranges from joe shmoe who packs groceries for a living, all the way to Kung Lee-Shamrock or w/e, that fight was sick.
Then you take your finger and pick any one fight from either list. The chances of you picking a better MMA fight, is better. However, if you pick CASTILLO-CORRALES, then you just picked a fight that is better then every single fight on that MMA list.
For Example, IMO, Cotto-Margarito will be better then any MMA match this year.
Its just that MMA can be more exciting because they have such smaller gloves. You can see KO after KO after KO. Boxing, you have to have a real power puncher, or a mismatch, to see a brutal KO.
And with MMA, you can put two bums together and get an exciting fight. Bum fights in Boxing are sometimes thrilling, but usually mad sloppy and ugly and boring. See ZELENOFF-HARTLEY. lol
But at the end of the day, Take ANY FOTY from boxing, and its more exciting then ANY MMA match in History.
ANd there is more to boxing then just thrills. Thats why i personally like it better. you get the best of both worlds, Skills and Thrills.
That's not true.. I guess Taylor was mismatched against Pavlik huh?
I put disagree, only because the way I see it, to me the wrestling part of MMA is boring, but to someone else it is exciting, and in boxing, the technical fights may be boring to someone, but interesting to someone else. It really varies between every person IMO.
Like boxing, MMA presents an inverse ratio between grappling and enjoyment. Excessive clinching in boxing bugs the hell out of me, and I tend to completely tune out on the MMA ground game. Not that I can't appreciate the skills present, its just boring as fuck. Like brain surgery.
Except brain surgery is fucking awesome and MMA wrestling sucks. Le/Shamrock had almost no grappling/wrestling, and it rocked balls.