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That actually isn't true. Most MMA fights, at least for the UFC, are on PPV. SpikeTV does their Ultimate Fight Nights once in a while, but the vast majority of major fights you have to pay for.
Boxing has a lot of big fights that are on regular HBO, take Hatton versus Castillo for example (at least I think it is regular HBO).
The problem is that SpikeTV is accsessable to all cable audience while HBO isn't.
There are more non-PPV big boxing fights than there are UFC fights, it just doesn't feel that way.Comment
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About the article, I have a couple comments to make.
First of all, overall, the boxing guy did a great job for sticking up for our sport. I agree with a lot of the stuff he said and he kept driving home the point about the in the ring action being better.
I have one criticism of him in this debate. The pro-MMA guy made a point that if you put Randy Couture and Oleg Maskaev in a boxing match and then in a UFC fight, he thinks that Couture would do much better in a boxing match than Maskaev in an MMA match. How does the boxing guy let him get away with comparing the best UFC heavyweight to a guy who actually isn't even a top ten heavyweight in boxing!!! I don't give a **** if he has the WBA belt, there are easily ten heavyweights right now in boxing who could beat Maskaev.
The fair comparison would have been Couture versus Klitschko. If you put Couture and Klitschko in a boxing match and then in an MMA match, not only would Klitschko do better overall, he might even beat Couture in the MMA match. He probably wouldn't, but Klitschko punching with 4 oz. gloves on....Comment
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good read i think theyre booth fun to wach but i think mma is a little bit less techincal for the viewer and lotsof blood kind of thingComment
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i thought that comment "if you ask mma and boxing fans which sport do you think is fixed, you'll know the answer". i think that should count as a knockdown, lol.
the mma writer won, hands down.Comment
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