The MMA Walls are Closing in on Boxing

[CaRnAgEViOLaToR]

not a big fan mma altho i was a fan of rampage

[Allucard]

I do hope MMA has an effect on boxing taking away some money out of boxing. Right now boxing has priced itself out of the non ppv market and that is killing it's popularity. People used to have nothing else to buy for fights but it's not the case anymore. We can't afford to have Oscar, Roy, Bernard, Tarver among others, taking the spotlight from younger, more able fighters and help them portrait themselves as the best there is, paying them millions of dollars, making for hugely expensive, lousy shows (Calzaghe hopkins someone?) when you have mma bringing in KO in like 7 fights out of 10 regularly and champions like Chuck Lidell aren't protected from the young guys coming up. If Lidell was a boxer he'd be fooling us for a couple more fights against carefully chosen opponents before he would face an equally shot 1000 year old guy (Sort of like Jones is doing now in fighting Calzaghe or Oscar in fighting Manny). Instead of making us wait 2 years of hating, nuthuggin and controversy in general, Chuck was forced to fight a really good solid contender (NO TIME FOR TUNEUPS HERE, THEY DON'T **** WITH YOUR MONEY) and was KOed again in the first round. This while may seem cruel to old Chuck who, in his time, gave so much to the sport, but is necessary in all fighting sports. This keeps Oscar de la Hoya's types from emerging. Nor the fighters or their managers chooses who they fight, Dana White does, and this is the most important reason we are increasingly talking about MMA more. So are others.

[flipside]

id watch MMA but would rather watch a boxing card if there is one at the same time.

In the PI its making a little noise but most people who wtach it are those who want to be fighter themselves not the casual fans. they bought in some international MMA fighters here and couldnt even fill 1/4 of our coliseum and Bautista filled that dome.

[We want Floyd]

id watch MMA but would rather watch a boxing card if there is one at the same time.

In the PI its making a little noise but most people who wtach it are those who want to be fighter themselves not the casual fans. they bought in some international MMA fighters here and couldnt even fill 1/4 of our coliseum and Bautista filled that dome.

That's 'cause a Pinoy ain't involved. Bautista afterall is Filipino. Brandon Vera hasn't really had any major victories over the current top dogs of whatever division he's fighting in.

Imagine if a Pinoy defeated a well-known UFC fighter for a title belt, they might not go crazy like they do with PAC, but that coliseum would be jampacked.

[MafiosA]

Gatti vs Ward
Corales vs Castillo
Pavlik vs Taylor
R Marquez vs Vazquez
JM Marquez vs Pacquiao
Cotto vs Margorito
keep giving us fights like that boxing wont have a problem

not fights like
De La Hoya vs Pacquiao
Trinidad vs Roy Jones (great idea in 2001)
Roy Jones vs Calzaghe (should of happend 7 years ago too)

and not pass on fights that should of happened like
DeLaHoya vs Trinidad II
Hopkins vs Jones II
Cotto vs Mayweather
Trinidad vs Mosley
Mayweather vs Mosley
DeLaHoya vs Winky

THESE PROBLEMS WILL HAPPEN TO MMA EVENTUALLY TOO!!!!!

[We want Floyd]

Gatti vs Ward
Corales vs Castillo
Pavlik vs Taylor
R Marquez vs Vazquez
JM Marquez vs Pacquiao
Cotto vs Margorito
keep giving us fights like that boxing wont have a problem

not fights like
De La Hoya vs Pacquiao
Trinidad vs Roy Jones (great idea in 2001)
Roy Jones vs Calzaghe (should of happend 7 years ago too)

and not pass on fights that should of happened like
DeLaHoya vs Trinidad II
Hopkins vs Jones II
Cotto vs Mayweather
Trinidad vs Mosley
Mayweather vs Mosley
DeLaHoya vs Winky

THESE PROBLEMS WILL HAPPEN TO MMA EVENTUALLY TOO!!!!!

The problem with the two fights I highlighted in red, is that DLJoto wants no part of either fighter that's why the matchup in blue is happening.

I am about to start a petition to stop this circus of a fight from happening on 12/6/08. I mean, gimme a break.

[MANGLER]

Mother**** MMA! That **** ain't got nothin on boxing. Props to anyone tough enough to fight for a livin but I can't see that **** ever replacin boxing. All the duckin/cherry pickin, alphabet garbage, crooked promoters, overpriced PPV's, etc ain't enough to make me **** on the sweet science for MMA bull****.

[DoomCity202]

Apples Oranges.

GTFOH!!

[squealpiggy]

I saw the funniest thing the other day. I saw some fat **** wearing a UFC tshirt. Mind you having watched UFC it was probably one of their ****ing champions.

[MJ406]

MMA/Boxing

Mother**** MMA! That **** ain't got nothin on boxing. Props to anyone tough enough to fight for a livin but I can't see that **** ever replacin boxing. All the duckin/cherry pickin, alphabet garbage, crooked promoters, overpriced PPV's, etc ain't enough to make me **** on the sweet science for MMA bull****.

all the stuff you listed are probably the biggest problems in boxing, and I believe hurt the sport much more then MMA does to boxing.

funny how the writer points out that there's pretty much nothing in common with Boxing and MMA (diff rules, gloves sizes etc) yet proceded to write about em anyway

I think the whole Boxing/MMA argument has effectively been beaten to death I've seen so many articles.

**and with Golden Boy merging with Affliction and planning 4 MMA/Boxing hybrid PPV's don't expect the boxing/mma comparisons to die out.