That is why two grown men shouldn't be kicking each other.

Anderson Silva is a damn legend and the best UFC fighter EVER...he is 38 damn years old and had a freak accident...fighters hit each other and break hands all the time....show some damn respect

Bunch of mma haters,,,, who cares at least silva fought the undefeated youngster are we going to get Floyd-bradley floyd-manny or are we gonna see boxing's biggest star vs a damaged goods fighter who hasnt won a big fight in years,,,, I like mma and respect it, i love boxing, but to hate on mma just makes you sound like a bunch of gossip queens....... whether you like it or not,, UFC gives a superior product in terms of matchups... Their champs are legit champs, and only fight top contenders, no cherry picks Boxing as a sport is a pathetic joke you just contradicted yourself

I'd rather get bored to death by a Klitschko fight than watch two men kick each other and roll around with their legs wrapped around each other.

Floyd's skinny legs would get broken too.

no kidding http://usatmmajunkie.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/anderson-silva-broken-leg-ufc-168.jpg?w=640&h=471 Doesn't even look ****ing real. What an awful sight.

I love boxing and I box amateurs. But like watching top level MMA too. I don't get the hate? Combat sports are the ****. I'd watch MMA over NBA, NFL, ****in Baseball, NHL anyday of the week. Some of ya'll have no idea how tough some of those guys are. I train with several MMA fighters in my gym and I can tell you that I would not want to mess with some of those dudes.

There is some history here folks: I don't imagine anyone is interested but briefly in case there is an interest, What we call "karate" in most tournament situations is in reality "kickboxing." Though well intentioned kick boxing destroyed Karate and screwed with boxing and Muy Thai. Traditional Karate is done with no bouncing whatsoever. It is not spectator friendly, is not pretty, etc. Kickboxing took bad boxing and added kicks. Interesting thing about Ju jitsu is that despite the Gracies claims there has never been a match pitting a Gracie against a professionally licensed Muy Thai fighter. Muy Thai actually comes from an older Southeast Asian Art Krabi Kabong and to some extent...Bando...Both full fledged combat arts. I have seen no Gracie match against a person doing karate the way it was intended to be practiced....Most of what goes for Karate is kickboxing. So when people talk about MMA being spectator friendly....MMA is designed for spectators, don't kid yourselves! Oh and regarding the kick? A real pet peeve of mine, that kick should be done with the leg parallel to the ground, like a dog peeing! it should be directed towards the large muscles of the upper leg, preferably to the side where there are nerve areas close to the bone (you can feel them on your leg if you put your fingers into the side of your leg between the front and back just down from the hips. NOBODY but a Thai boxer has any business doing that kick to the shin areas! What did he think was going to happen? I dont know man. These pro fighters that spend their entire lives doing this sht know nothing about fighting compared to anonymous forum posters. I think you should look up Silva's phone number, give him a call and explain him how to fight. If Anderson Silva knew half of what you know about fighting he never would have broken his leg like that in the first place.

judging by the amount of mmgay discussion on a boxing site, i guess when there's no boxing on, all the gay boxing fans tune in to mmgay lol!!! im not surprised to hear what happened, mmgay is fake, you never see anythign like that happen in boxing b/c boxing is for real! In mma you also see guys running up the fence and kicking ppl in the face like some kind of action movie, or grown men get tossed 6 ft into the air and dropped on their faces. That would never happen in a REAL combat sport like baxin'! Instead of watching mma yesterday, i hit up the boxing gym and worked on my footworks.

I never liked MMA or UFC, always find it boring. And the belt sucks, looks like those from WWA, you know, fake.

Ok then if you don't like it don't watch mma, doesn't mean no one else should be able to enjoy it......I like combat sports period and BTW the women's title fight was more entertaining and suspenseful than most boxing matches I have seen all this year. If they weren't chicks would it still be as suspenseful?

I'll never understand when fans of certain sports denigrate another sport. how insecure a fan can you be really? except golf. **** golf.

There does seem to be an inordinate amount of hatred for MMA going around Boxingscene lately. Most of the posters in here don't seem to understand martial arts or the point of MMA. Boxing and MMA are two very different sports. We can, and do, have room for both. What happened with Silva was a rare occurrence that had more to do with his misfortune and poor timing than the kick itself. As to the entertainment aspect, the card was great fun last night. There were a lot of early KOs and boxing fans who like KOs should appreciate it. Sure, MMA fighters normally have terrible hands, but the quick finishes always have you on the edge of your seat. MMA fighters have a lot more tools and they can end you in a multitude of different ways. That is why I think it gets (and deserves) attention. Boxing and MMA are different but they also share some similarities. You really don't need to compare the two.

Not really into MMA but that doesn't happen very frequent giving how many kicks/checks there are it was the perfect counter check, that happen to catch the weak part of the leg which is the danger with kicking the inner shin. Despite that Kickboxing/Muay Thai are phenomenal, entertaining sports to watch and are done at a much higher level.

some of you guys are full of ****. first off, in a street fight an experienced boxer vs a experienced mma fighter - who wins? id go with mma most of the time. that card last night was better than any undercard boxing threw out this year except maybe the mayweather-canelo card. ufc usually puts out good undercards for their ppvs. just because you guys arent a fan of wrestling, kicking, mma in general doesn't help people shouldnt be doing it. you in a closed box thinking boxing is superior the same way you think one brand is better than another, which is only cause that brand was probably was more exposed and more people noticed and took interest but that doesnt mean the other brand sucks. think outside the box. i like how ufc actually showcased females, unlike boxing. and it was a good fight, and yes most ufc fights end very quick sometimes but mma isn't bad at all. what happened last night was a freak accident but the card in general was very enjoyable. better than most boxing cards this year by a long shot. The Broner Maidana card blew that UFC garbage out of the water last night.

Alex Ariza disagrees. http://www.hooksandhoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/4x3hm.gif I'm not gonna lie. This is one of my favorite responses I've seen. Hilarious. Green K sent.

some of you guys are full of ****. first off, in a street fight an experienced boxer vs a experienced mma fighter - who wins? id go with mma most of the time. that card last night was better than any undercard boxing threw out this year except maybe the mayweather-canelo card. ufc usually puts out good undercards for their ppvs. just because you guys arent a fan of wrestling, kicking, mma in general doesn't help people shouldnt be doing it. you in a closed box thinking boxing is superior the same way you think one brand is better than another, which is only cause that brand was probably was more exposed and more people noticed and took interest but that doesnt mean the other brand sucks. think outside the box. i like how ufc actually showcased females, unlike boxing. and it was a good fight, and yes most ufc fights end very quick sometimes but mma isn't bad at all. what happened last night was a freak accident but the card in general was very enjoyable. better than most boxing cards this year by a long shot.

There is some history here folks: I don't imagine anyone is interested but briefly in case there is an interest, What we call "karate" in most tournament situations is in reality "kickboxing." Though well intentioned kick boxing destroyed Karate and screwed with boxing and Muy Thai. Traditional Karate is done with no bouncing whatsoever. It is not spectator friendly, is not pretty, etc. Kickboxing took bad boxing and added kicks. Interesting thing about Ju jitsu is that despite the Gracies claims there has never been a match pitting a Gracie against a professionally licensed Muy Thai fighter. Muy Thai actually comes from an older Southeast Asian Art Krabi Kabong and to some extent...Bando...Both full fledged combat arts. I have seen no Gracie match against a person doing karate the way it was intended to be practiced....Most of what goes for Karate is kickboxing. So when people talk about MMA being spectator friendly....MMA is designed for spectators, don't kid yourselves! Oh and regarding the kick? A real pet peeve of mine, that kick should be done with the leg parallel to the ground, like a dog peeing! it should be directed towards the large muscles of the upper leg, preferably to the side where there are nerve areas close to the bone (you can feel them on your leg if you put your fingers into the side of your leg between the front and back just down from the hips. NOBODY but a Thai boxer has any business doing that kick to the shin areas! What did he think was going to happen?

That card was more exciting than any boxing card I've seen all year.

the thing is, if an mmgay fighter threw a kick at floyd, floyd's tibia would be broken. Gay fighters are as tough as nails

Bunch of mma haters,,,, who cares at least silva fought the undefeated youngster are we going to get Floyd-bradley floyd-manny or are we gonna see boxing's biggest star vs a damaged goods fighter who hasnt won a big fight in years,,,, I like mma and respect it, i love boxing, but to hate on mma just makes you sound like a bunch of gossip queens....... whether you like it or not,, UFC gives a superior product in terms of matchups... Their champs are legit champs, and only fight top contenders, no cherry picks Boxing as a sport is a pathetic joke