Will MMA take over Boxing in the next 10-20 years?

[Kball15]

Yeah you should really educate yourself about MMA. Pride was monstrous in Asia. Monstrous. Do some reading...all you are is a boxer fanboy with an obvious agenda. I watch and learn from both sports/

oh shutup already. "your just a fanboy and everything u say is automatically wrong and yaddah yaddah yaddah" bull****.

Pride was never close to boxing EVER, who cares how big it WAS. They finally wised up and realized how badly it sucks.

[EMPOROAR]

oh shutup already. "your just a fanboy and everything u say is automatically wrong and yaddah yaddah yaddah" bull****.

Pride was never close to boxing EVER, who cares how big it WAS. They finally wised up and realized how badly it sucks.

Look at what you just said. You arent even familiar as to why Pride shut down...

Educate yourself and then talk to me. You really know nothing about the sport...and you arent intelligent in the least. How old are you?

[Kball15]

Look at what you just said. You arent even familiar as to why Pride shut down...

Educate yourself and then talk to me. You really know nothing about the sport...and you arent intelligent in the least. How old are you?

lol, shutup already. admit ur wrong and im right... cause i am 100% rights and ive proven it already.

your just hopeless, eating up every last thing you can and trying to use it to ur advantage. Boxing is and will always be MUCH more popular world wide then MMA.

and im done here, i cant win an argument with a guy who KNOWS hes lost, but continues to argue anyways. Your to immature to admit u've actually just lost an argument, and lost it badly. Ive got facts on my side, uve got nothing

[EMPOROAR]

lol, shutup already. admit ur wrong and im right... cause i am 100% rights and ive proven it already.

your just hopeless, eating up every last thing you can and trying to use it to ur advantage. Boxing is and will always be MUCH more popular world wide then MMA.

and im done here, i cant win an argument with a guy who KNOWS hes lost, but continues to argue anyways. Your to immature to admit u've actually just lost an argument, and lost it badly. Ive got facts on my side, uve got nothing

What facts????

[EMPOROAR]

Oh and I know boxing will never be dead. It is a classic sport and people will always love it. Not yet but it is definitely on the ropes at best. Some would say it is being given a standing eight count. It will never reach its heyday like it did in the 70's and 80's.

15 years ago boxing promoters fought very hard to keep the UFC out. They had city and state officials banning events. They pretty much riled up all of the little old ladies and said how terrible we all were. The real reason that they did it was greed. Plain and simply the boxing promoters knew the UFC is what the fans wanted. They threatened cable companies. In so many words it went like this "if you show a pay per view UFC event, we will not allow you to show the next Tyson fight"

Many of the cable companies buckled to the boxing bullies for years. But the little cable companies who did not saw huge profits by showing the UFC. The people would get what they wanted.

It was/is a true test to find the better fighter. It is also free from the corruption and scandals that have plagued boxing for over 100 years.

[FlaminGuru]

Well Either way, even if boxing goes away, it'll be a long while till it comes down, 100% i'm telling you right now, someone out there will revive boxing
wether its a future champion, future contender, heck maybe someone from
this forum could change boxing forever.

Yet the history of boxing will stay. Nothing in my mind tells me boxing will
go away, but we're slowly losing champions, and there will be nothing left
you could pretty much say boxing is a hobby not a sport, but this sport won't
come down easy. Its famous worldwide, some countries like India is finally
giving Boxing a high profile, more countries are finally recognising boxing,
the more people that get familiar with this sport, the bigger the chance of
having better champions.

[FluugMacMan]

lol, shutup already. admit ur wrong and im right... cause i am 100% rights and ive proven it already.

your just hopeless, eating up every last thing you can and trying to use it to ur advantage. Boxing is and will always be MUCH more popular world wide then MMA.

and im done here, i cant win an argument with a guy who KNOWS hes lost, but continues to argue anyways. Your to immature to admit u've actually just lost an argument, and lost it badly. Ive got facts on my side, uve got nothing

[sarcasm] You told him Kball15 [/sarcasm]

I love your logic in how you reason. I think I summed up your reasoning pretty well in my signature.

[jai mari078]

I am a die hard boxing fan. Always have been always will be, but I have to admit that right now the UFC is more popular. They do a better job at marketing there sport and there events. They also have the ability to draw a broader audience. I don't know if in the long run they will surpass boxing but as of right now I'd have to say they are more popular. I used to be a UFC hater until I started watching and all of there events are exciting. Another thing that there events do is live up to thr hype, and we all know that a lot of big boxing promortions don't. When I spend my money on a UFC event I feel I got my moneys worth, I don't always feel that way with some of the boxing PPV'. Once again I am not hating on boxing because I am a die hard,but as of this moment I would have to say that UFC is doing a better job with their product.

[jai mari078]

alot of the casual fans of boxing, the types that would catch every tyson fight including his last one, were just people who wanted to see two guys in a ring trying to take their heads off with punches. thats all it ever was to them

they didnt value boxing skills, technique. they didnt care about skill or technique, or any specifics whatsoever about the sport

all they wanted to see was the closest **** to the roman colesseum as possible. mma fits that bill better than boxing does.

but still, there will be plenty of mma viewers who get tired of seeing two guys rolling around on the ground together, lets apart like two guys in a san fran sisco bath house, and they'll want to come back to boxing and see a great fist fight

but they wont know where to start, where to read about it, which fighters will provide the real excitement. boxing has to fix that problem, more than anything else. I support a federal commission, moreso for that than for any fighters rights/anti promoter reasons.

boxing needs a ceo just like ufc has in dana white, just like the nba has in david stern. sports leagues are corporations now. they need a CEO, and boxing doesnt have one. thats its problem

Your absolutely right about boxing needing a CEO like Dana White. Say what you want about him, but he knows how to market his product.They need to do something because all these sanctioning bodies are a big problem with boxing.

[flem1]

Yeah you should really educate yourself about MMA. Pride was monstrous in Asia. Monstrous. Do some reading...all you are is a boxer fanboy with an obvious agenda. I watch and learn from both sports/

Bull**** dude! Pride is not as monstrous as you think. I'm Asian and Pride (particularly MMA) is not that popular as it seems even in Japan. I had a Japanese friend and they don't even who Fedor, Crocop is but they do know Saku as a prowrestler.

Yeah Kameda had a horrible match against Landaeta but he eventually beat him in a rematch. Koki Kameda draws 30-40% of Japanese tv viewers in everyone of his fights while K-1 right now doesn't even come close let alone Pride FC (the tv viewers for Pride are always lower than K-1 except for Shockwave 2006 but is still small compared to the Kameda fights). Get your facts straight first. I think K-1 is more popular in Korea right now.