The MMA Walls are Closing in on Boxing

[KostyaTszyu44]

To me MMA is more violent and dangerous I just saw a show that was in long beach california and this guys arm snapped when he was being slammed down it was nasty!

I think Boxing needs to make the gloves 6 ounce for 147 and below and 8 ounce for anything over.

the bigger gloves cause more brain trauma and these little guys dont need to be wearing 10 ounce gloves to be honest.

1 punch kos actually save a fighter the brain trauma then getting a beating for 12 rounds.

good point man

[KostyaTszyu44]

Boxing will never die out.

MMA is for a different kind of person than boxing, just like different people watch basketball than golf.

There's a great fall of boxing coming up, with lots of good matchups starting next weekend, and continuing until Dec. 13.

tunney you ve hit the nail on the head. thankyou

[KostyaTszyu44]

Japan
Brazil
Pillippines
Russia
France
England
Canada
Australia

bro i live in australia

and apart from some kids my age who like to see a dude get beat up...mma has no fanbase

erm japan , philipines, russia, england are very strong boxing nations, mma is making little inroads there

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

Have you looked in the right areas?

Art of War, Cage Rage, M-1, DREAM, Shooto, WVR, FX1, Cage Warriors, DEEP, TKO and others have been making a killing.

[KILLA RIGHT]

^^then why did pride get bought for 20 million. I'm not dissing just asking

[CiganoBoxer]

Have you looked in the right areas?

Art of War, Cage Rage, M-1, DREAM, Shooto, WVR, FX1, Cage Warriors, DEEP, TKO and others have been making a killing.

Over the years i have learned to love MMA and i all ways watch the big shows IE UFC,Pride etc etc I watch more MMa than most !
But pugilisticly speaking MMA is light years behind boxing,and will never have the pure theater of a top boxing match !
Anybody that watched Cotto v Margarito this year will vote for that!
So for me Boxing will all ways be the DADDY of Combat pugilistic Sports!

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

^^then why did pride get bought for 20 million. I'm not dissing just asking

Actually Zuffa got screwed out of 60 mill for what they thought was a whole company but instead got part of a tape collection. The value of the partial was 17 mill.

The reason PRIDE got sold was because it was found out through raids and people in sticky that DSE had ties to the Yakuza. The Yakuza had to sever ties and the company withered on the vine. Fuji TV severed ties as well when it was found out one of the Yakuza headmen was one of it's staff.

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

Over the years i have learned to love MMA and i all ways watch the big shows IE UFC,Pride etc etc I watch more MMa than most !
But pugilisticly speaking MMA is light years behind boxing,and will never have the pure theater of a top boxing match !
Anybody that watched Cotto v Margarito this year will vote for that!
So for me Boxing will all ways be the DADDY of Combat pugilistic Sports!

And I'm real cool with that, honestly.

What I'm wanting is a respect in striking philosophy in MMA. Yeah, the striking is going to look like crap, but you never seen boxers handle natural shoots, clinche to submission combos or even clinch to throw combos.

There's a totally different way of thinking about striking in MMA. Just try asking questions and learn.

[Flawless.]

MMA is a threat to boxing, why you guys dismiss it as nothing

[hotshoes]

****, not another article about mma, if i recall correctly boxing was supposed to die about b2 years ago but its still here. boxing and mma are 2 objects that cannot cancel each other out. i say this article failed