What are the main reasons that you don't like watching MMA?

[Lupara]

I prefer toe to toe over a$S to mouth

[Teetotaler83]

I think mma is rather shallow and pedantic

[Don Pichardo]

It’s ga yy. Barefoot men on the ground hugging each other. Hard pass

[Rockybigblower]

Boxing was always no. 1 but I was also interested in MMA for about 1 - 1,5 years.
I quit basically for 3 reasons:

1. Came to realize after watching many fights that a LOT has to do with just sheer luck. Swinging punches at each other, one connects and the other drops and goes into fetal position (very unmanly). Then the winner is declared the greatest fighter in the world...

Technically, from a striking point of view it is just horrible. Grapplers throwing hands basically.

2. The lack of knowledge of both MMA fighters and fans.
They think they understand other styles because they call themselves MMA'ers. But in reality MMA just stands for Mediocre Mixture of Arts
Anytime you hear an MMA fighter talk about boxing, you realize they have absolutely no clue about the complexities of both technique and strategies of boxing. Baffling ignorance.
Just watch YouTube clips of (obvious self-taught) MMA-coaches teaching boxing technique. They just have no clue but that doesn't stop them in confidently talking absolute rubbish.

3. Forced tough-guy act
There is a massive inferiority complex. (I actually heared an MMA'er say about boxers "they think they are better than us"
They always want to convince and remember everyone how tough they are.
Boxers show post-surgery photo's just to show all went well
MMA'ers (both man and women) just lóve taking pictures to show open wounds and every severe injury just to show how 'tough' they are. No other athlete does this.

I sort of agree there. And its MMA that puts me off really....its the monday morning guys that come in blazing saying what a great submission so and so had. Fair enough...but i just dont have the 15 minutes of wait time for a rear naked choke to sink in. MMA as a sport is best watched as a highlights package.

[TMLT87]

MMA as a sport is best watched as a highlights package.

This applies much more to boxing tbh. MMA fights are much shorter with more frequent spikes of excitement and less time spent sitting on stools between rounds.

[Haka]

A 200 pound leach is not what I call roughing up a guy 50lbs lighter, I call it survival in the only way he could using his massive size advantage, Floyd easily won the boxing if it was scored.
Same with Francis I knew AJ was going to flatten him, casuals see what they want to see, I dont think either fight effects either sport other than after prime McGregor and prime Francis failed badly its stamped what boxing fans have always known, MMA cant compete with elite boxers in a boxing ring, and we havent seen a prime in form elite boxer step in the cage but I assume it will happen to them in that world.

But why didn't Floyd take the rematch ? Or was it not a real fight. The rematch would be even bigger so you are looking 100MM+.

[BoxingParadigm]

MMA doesn't make for entertaining TV in my eyes.

[billeau2]

I don't watch it because the training has become so oriented to the sport, it hardly has martial arts, and you see it with the lack of technique. Then, some guy does something properly and breaks a knee "ohh I guess ide kicks do work!" then back to the same routines. I liked the older fighters like Rich Franklin, the Gracies, Machada... Now everytime I see the matches its the same old same old.

[HandsofIron]

It was good in the early days when they used to throw hands and squab but now, too much wrassling, rolling on the floor, laying on each other and dry humping.

Boring.

[FinitoxDinamita]

MMA fighters are man of many trades, but masters of nothing. It bores me to death. This fighter named Sean Strickland keeps showing on my feed and dude has such a sloppy, ugly form. This guy is supposed to be one of UFC’s best? lol.

Wrestling, grappling, Ju Jitsu or any ground game is boring to me. I wouldn’t watch that sht for free.