Anyone else find it hard to take MMA/UFC seriously?

[FIGHTING_FLIP]

MMA is entertainment, Boxing is a SPORT....

yeah and its not even entertaining

[FIGHTING_FLIP]

I'm getting the feeling that you've trained boxing since you were a kid. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I can understand training in one style for a long time and then see a totally new style and get totally confused. It takes a while to truly comprehend the theories of grappling and it's applications.

Why don't you try asking those guys questions about it next time you see them. Better yet, if you got time, go to Youtube and look up Eddie Bravo or Erik Paulsen. Some of their lectures and instructionals are posted there.

correct.

ive tried to ask my friends who like that **** and its the same ****. i just cant find that form of fighting entertaining.

[shadeyfizzle]

correct.

ive tried to ask my friends who like that **** and its the same ****. i just cant find that form of fighting entertaining.

I've trained in martial arts my whole life. They are more closely imitating what may happen in your average everyday streetfight where different forms of fighting cross. Thats where the entertainment value comes from. The hypothetical "if you as a boxer got into a fight with a 5th degree tae kwon do black belt" what would happen.

But in the mid 90's UFC was banned in nearly every state and since then emplaced a system of rules and regulations which turned mma into a bastardization of every fighting art on earth. including boxing.