The MMA Walls are Closing in on Boxing

[Hagler★]

**** all this bollocks people that like mma are simple minded they cant keep up with the intricacies of boxing like the fighters and their different styles they automatically assume if they havent heard of a boxer he must be ****. that why when an mma fan says to me boxing is **** then i ask him who is arthur abrahams or joshua clottey or to a lesser extent antonio margarito (all 3 decent fighters) and they dont know i can then tell them to go back and watch their 'sport'
to compound this all these mma fans dont know any fighters beyond mma by exception of kimbo and former ufc fighters that are in another organisation

[RapidFire_Royce]

I am an lifelong fan of boxing and have become a fan of mma. But i do feel if boxing was restructured in more of an mma fashion that it would regain the type of fan base it had in its hey day. One belt per devision. A centralized governing body. There should be more of a tourney style in each devision. The champion shouldnt fight anyone outside the top ten in his weight class. I find myself sometimes more willing to watch mma just to get away from the politics that have infected boxing. Because one thing i do know about mma is that if you hear two fighters on tv talking **** to one another you can best believe that those two will be in the ring with each other within a couple of months.

[mrpain81]

I really don't think MMA is a threat to boxing. Boxing's golden days are over and like as not it will have to accept its current status as a relative minority sport for the long term future. However, just because its not as popular as it once was is no reaosn to believe it is dying, right now it still has lots of fans, generates lots of viewers for networks, and above all is a long standing and respected historical sport. It will never die.

As for MMA, perhaps one day it will be more popular than boxing, but what does it matter? It isn't a competition. The only people who speak like that are young MMA fans who probably enjoy watching WWE too and have a desire to see the 'boring' sport of boxing 'pwned', little realising that within five years they will likely abandon it as they outgrow their youthful desire to see sickening violence.

Great post

[MJ406]

yeah these articles coming up all the time really just provoke the argument that much more.

can the writers find something else to write about?

I guess the boxing/MMA comparisons will never die out.

[StackMo]

**** all this bollocks people that like mma are simple minded they cant keep up with the intricacies of boxing like the fighters and their different styles they automatically assume if they havent heard of a boxer he must be ****. that why when an mma fan says to me boxing is **** then i ask him who is arthur abrahams or joshua clottey or to a lesser extent antonio margarito (all 3 decent fighters) and they dont know i can then tell them to go back and watch their 'sport'
to compound this all these mma fans dont know any fighters beyond mma by exception of kimbo and former ufc fighters that are in another organisation

The popular rhetoric is because MMA fighters a re good at all ranges they can do any other sports falling into those ranges easily. Which of course is why 130lbs world champions make more only doing boxing than heavy weight champions in the UFC have ever made.

[Bea5T]

Japan
Brazil
Pillippines
Russia
France
England
Canada
Australia

lmao

you pull so muuch **** out of your ass im surprised you aint gay

[FloydsEra]

lol just shut the hell up. who the **** wants to watch 2 half naked men dry humping each other on the ground...

MMA can be strange sometimes. Matt Hughes vs Carlos Newton I.
Matt Hughes knocked Newton unconscious while Hughes was laying on top of him. All the blood rushed from Carlos Newton's brain to his schlong. Suddenly Carlos had a banana in his pants. I changed channel

[Domain]

lmao

you pull so muuch **** out of your ass im surprised you aint gay

dude chuck liddell was just in the filipines i posted a video and the people knew who he was and were screaming his name.

[-Swizzy-]

boxing and mma can co exist.

Now, imo, from people i've talked to and know, those that like mma are not good street fighters or in a street fight have to tackle there opponet to beat them to to have an even playing field cause they can't hang toe to toe, how it used to be. And most havn't even been to a boxing gym much less put on the gloves. They think them 12 ounch gloves dont' hurt.

You can play mma and not get hurt, but you can't play boxing and not get hurt.

you don't know what you are talking about. the champions in every division are good punchers, kickers and ground fighters. any fighter thats ONLY good at one of those things doesn't last long in the sport. MMA fighters are the best street fighters. stop being in denial. You aren't gonna be any less of a person if you just accept reality.

[snake]

Once the Browns and Blacks start dominating MMA in america, it won't be a big deal anymore. When Evans KOd Chuck, you could see the depression start to sink in on not only the fans faces, but other fighters as well.

Umm...your precious "browns" have dominated MMA since the beginning of the sport.

UFC breakdown:
Heavyweight champ - Brazilian (or "brown" for those who like that racist term).
205 champ - used to be Rampage, black, now Forrest who will fight Rashad, black, in his next fight.
185 champ - Brazilian, does not speak English.
170 champ - French Canadian, not American, white.
155 champ - BJ Penn, Hawaiian and some asian mix.

Just 2 out of 5 are white. Two champs out of five. Don't play the ******* race card when you don't know what you are talking about. And that does not even include MMA in Japan and other organizations, that's just taking into account the UFC.

Heck the original winner of UFC 1 was a Brazilian.

If the UFC is not black enough for you, it's because most MMA fighters come from NCAA wrestling backgrounds and kickboxing backgrounds, not sports that generally attract non-whites for some reason.

Boxing...Evander Holyfield held stratospheric ppv records, as did Tyson, both because they were ass kickers and aggressive and who do you think was buying those 1 million ppv's? They were not, as the author says in his article, the types we have too many of today who do as little as possible to win. People couldn't care less what Evander's skin color was in his prime, they tuned in because of how he fought. The same with Mike Tyson (now there was an example of marketing done right in boxing).

Last, boxing has whites all over and it always has. Calzaghe, Pavlik, Hatton, Wlad and in fact whites dominate the heavyweight division in boxing now (which is why the ******* media likes to say that boxing's heavyweight division sucks right now), Kessler, and the list can go on. There is a reason for that too...

...now that American boxers can no longer run and hide from Europe's and Russia's best, we are seeing more integration in boxing. An influx of new talent is always welcome.