Is MMA,UFC,Pride a Fad?? or will it last like Boxing has??

[Darkstar]

The thing is their are sooo many differnt MMA shows. With all these new events and companies they will start to take money out of each others pockets.

[-Antonio-]

I voted it wouldnt last, but Im referring to UFC. Pride and all of that has always been popular.

[Run]

MMA, UFC, Pride is here for good and will last














































****ing deal with it already people. It's been around for twenty-five years and it's growing at an immense rate.



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[!! Mr. Soprano]

MMA has been around for centuries and has always been popular in Asia...

Problem is, just like biased American boxing fans think the world rotates around boxing, for Asians it's MMA.

The fact that it made it to US about 10 years ago means absolutely nothing..
and those of you saying that it's "just a fad and will die out soon, cant compete with boxing " are just ignorantly blind..

All fights are PPV and these PPV are kicking boxing's ass so lets not get into this. There has been 1001 thread in this NSB forum with titles like "is MMA taking over Boxing?" "Why is Boxing popularity dropping" and many many more..

Bottom line MMA was introduced to US and it is here to stay like Pizza!

[.Mik.]

What possible reasons would it have for NOT lasting?

[deuce_drop]

martial arts all over the world have been around longer than boxing, therefore i think it has a better than average chance of staying around and being a lot more than a fad.

if styles make fights, then completely different fighting systems going head to head ought to make good fights all the time, at least a good majority of the time.

another thing to remember, MMA is being promoted and introduced to a younger crowd who is going to grow up with MMA always being there and those kids are going to start training in any kind of martial arts and soon compete, thus keeping it alive.

and another thing i read someone said that UFC is owned by zuffa and that no one owns boxing, well that might be right to a certain extent, UFC is owned but not MMA, and since the UFC is being owned it progressed far better than boxing in it's infancy and as of right now has a brighter future than boxing. maybe boxing needs an owner, someone who will treat it with respect and help it grow unlike the guys that are around now draining boxing of everything it has, because boxing is treated like absolute ****, it's almost a free for all for those who have enough money to bully people around.

look at it, crooks have been running boxing forever and at the same time have destroyed every kind of legitimacy of boxing at one time or another, throughout history boxing has been corrupt and dissapointed people more and more rather than made people satisfied. if you deny any of that you're living blind. so far UFC, Pride, and other MMA have been more legit when it comes to judging fights and politics. fighters actually work their way into title shots, none of this promoter favortism to put fighters into title shots, none of the bull**** sanctioning bodies that rip off fighters and then screw them over when a promoter asks them too.

i'm sure through time that all that shady **** is going to find it's way into the sport or if it is there it will surface like it has in boxing, but as of right now the MMA world is more pure than boxing and people like to see pureness and fairness.

that and people like to see fights end without having to go to the score cards, i'm not saying that there hven't been shady decisions, but from the time UFC has been around, boxing has had dozens upon dozens, scores if you will, of shady, bad, crooked, obviously paid off decisions, to where UFC maybe has had a handful, and i'm talking just from the start of UFC running along side of boxing.

i love boxing more than anything, it's my life, i love it to death, but i also know reality, and the reality is UFC and MMA stuff is going to be around for a long long time, it's far from a fad.

[Double]

I like both, on a side note I ordered the UFC 67 last weekend because I was intrigued by the matchups and names on the card, Crocoff (sp), Jackson, and Silva.

i was also flipping back and forth between the UFC and the Chad Dawson fight. I'm proabably biased but the Chad Dawson fight seemed to be much more entertaining than the UFC and these were top guys in MMA on that night.

Even still i don't think they should be compared and i see a market for both for years to come.

[Double]

martial arts all over the world have been around longer than boxing, ....

Boxing is a martial art.

[titoi]

In "x" years (say, 100 or so give or take a millenia or two ) there will be no boxing or mma as currently practiced.

But there has always been and there will always be some forms of striking and grappling which will be popular.

[Banderivets]

Sadly it wont because of the demographic it captures in NORTH AMERICA.

I say North America, because from personal experiance boxing is very big in Ukraine, probably is in Russia too. With Ukrainian fighters making noise in pro ranks it boosts it's popularity even more, kids just want to get into it.

Here UFC is for the middle and upper class. Teens watch it, f**** boys etc. They like it, it's what they talk about. Boxing here has always been a poor mans sport, or just old school sport. Not just white or asian kids either. People will ALWAYS want to watch combat sports. And boxing is doing **** all to make it availible. Any decent fight is on PPV or specialty channels like HBO/Showtime that not everyone has in their basic cable package. UFC is ALL over the place. It's in bars, it's all over TV.

Pride is a whole different beast to UFC though. It has amazing atheletes and great fighters, and the fights are under different rules, allowing for more kicks, and very little ground huging. Pride will not die due to its huge popularity in asia.