Roach: MMA has a brighter future than Boxing, harder for a boxer to go into MMA

[PensionKiller]

Anyway as for UFC, I don't know america but there are quite a few ex wrestling fans into it.

Some are quite posh and educated too.

Boxing really is a niche sport and to understand all the technical sides and appreciate, it's not easy. It's very subtle you know.

UFC is all about hype, and it is well organised.

Boxing could infact die down a little bit and the UFC go up ofc.

Once Pacquaio and Mayweather are gone, who else is a draw?

I love Bradley, and I feel he will be the P4P number 1, but he isn't drawing anybody in.

Can you picture who will do a Millie PPV's in boxing in the enxt few years when the top guys retire?

[Snopkins]

I just can't take a are foot,glass jawed grappler seriously.Throwing girly arm punches doesn't rise their stock either.


Regardless of whether or not boxing lacks mainstream appeal at the moment,people will always have respect for a guy who throws and takes punches to the cranium for a living.It takes a special kind of human being to do this.




Nobody is ever going to respect a half naked meathead who gets rendered unconscious at the slightest of contact to the chin.

Once Pacquaio and Mayweather are gone, who else is a draw?

The very same question was asked two years ago when Oscar De La Hoya was coming towards the end of his career.

[disolly]

I dont see how anyone in there right mind can say it's harder to go from boxing to mma then it is to go from mma to boxing. Most guys on sherdog even know better.

First off.. MMA is what it says. Mixed. If you have already mastered that one aspect, then you at least being a boxer have a punchers chance. It's about being good at 2-3 things rather then mastering one art.

Iv'e never heard of MMA guy's transfering over to boxing and suceeding, but there are multiple guys who come from boxing and do ok. Some better then others. Most if not all the guys who go over are failed or past it boxers.

Exactly. Also I think the average boxer is a better athlete than an MMA guy.

[disolly]

I just can't take a are foot,glass jawed grappler seriously.Throwing girly arm punches doesn't rise their stock either.


Regardless of whether or not boxing lacks mainstream appeal at the moment,people will always have respect for a guy who throws and takes punches to the cranium for a living.It takes a special kind of human being to do this.




Nobody is ever going to respect a half naked meathead who gets rendered unconscious at the slightest of contact to the chin.

Ha , I can see you hate MMA too.

[Lead Cenobite]

Anyway as for UFC, I don't know america but there are quite a few ex wrestling fans into it.

Some are quite posh and educated too.

Boxing really is a niche sport and to understand all the technical sides and appreciate, it's not easy. It's very subtle you know.

UFC is all about hype, and it is well organised.

Boxing could infact die down a little bit and the UFC go up ofc.

Once Pacquaio and Mayweather are gone, who else is a draw?

I love Bradley, and I feel he will be the P4P number 1, but he isn't drawing anybody in.

Can you picture who will do a Millie PPV's in boxing in the enxt few years when the top guys retire?

This is the same crap that was said when Tyson retired. When Oscar retired. Etc. etc. Borrrring. I don't know who will take over. Someone will. Just remember Floyd used to be a draw.

MOST UFC fans are Pro wrestling fans who jumped on the fad. Most are ******ed trailer trash who don't know **** about fighting.

[Bullrush]

was wondering if you know mma.

what can a boxer do with thigh kicks, body kicks, round house etc? hows jab gonna do with push kick? it has no power but it lost the momentum of the attacker. u may counter, push kick with lateral movements but how effective is it? regarding, the bob and weave in boxing, it is prone to the knees of the muay thai practitioner. now, what if the boxer havent ko his opponent and the bjj, wrestler or judo, clinched the boxer..how would he react then?

i dont belittle boxing but dont look down at mma.

and dont use forrest griffin. forrest being a champion is fluke. he has alot of heart. and like boxing, hes win against rampage is controversial. if u watched rashad how he beat forrest..u can see how a boxer would do when taken down by an elite wrestler. forrest is winning is striking because of his footwork but when he commit mistake when rashad bait him to kick..then the rest is history. forrest lost to anderson..but anderson is known more mot as a boxer but muay thai.

i dont know if roy jones really said, what uve posted..but roy jones is already shot that he is just hyping himself to be in the limelight to cover up his numerous lost.

anderson beat him because of his boxing. he doesnt even use any muay thai. the last time he did that was when he smashed franklins face. hes focusing on boxing nowadays, just like penn, mir, and even machida. any boxer could switch over to the UFC and then become a factor. of course they will not instantly dominate this thing but they will knock some people out. a MMA wont be able to do that when he switches over to boxing.

[Bullrush]

Anyway as for UFC, I don't know america but there are quite a few ex wrestling fans into it.

Some are quite posh and educated too.

Boxing really is a niche sport and to understand all the technical sides and appreciate, it's not easy. It's very subtle you know.

UFC is all about hype, and it is well organised.

Boxing could infact die down a little bit and the UFC go up ofc.

Once Pacquaio and Mayweather are gone, who else is a draw?

I love Bradley, and I feel he will be the P4P number 1, but he isn't drawing anybody in.

Can you picture who will do a Millie PPV's in boxing in the enxt few years when the top guys retire?

3:50



"there will be no new ones once delahoya is gone, once hopkins is gone"

two plus years later here we are with pacman, mayweather and company

[Lead Cenobite]

3:50



"there will be no new ones once delahoya is gone, once hopkins is gone"

two plus years later here we are with pacman, mayweather and company

That ****** argument gets owned so often from MMA fanqueen dip****s.

[Capital Punch]

MMA/UFC will never overtake boxing. It will exist in its own bubble and maybe even flourish, but it will never eclipse boxing as a sport. Here in the UK, where it is allegedly popular, it's not even reported on. Basically in the same bag as wrestling.

[mrpain81]

MMA and Boxing are two different sports, people need to realise that and carry on. They have two different backrounds but the BIG difference is Boxing has been around for over 100 years while MMA has only found a big following for about 5 years. Pride was huge in Japan but MMA has died over there as for Boxing they just had probably the biggest fight in history with Kameda/Naito which got I think 50% of Japan tuning in for the fight. MMA UFC mostly has gotten a nice following with young white males in the US but that's only been going on for about 5 years, we don't really know if it has longevity.

Boxing is garanteed to be around forever but you can't say the same for MMA, young people usually tend to get bored with something and move on just it's happend with skateboarding and poker in the last few years. Nobody can say that MMA will be here in 10 as it's about $130 a month to join a gym monthly while boxing still have a lot of free gyms especially around the world.

Another thing I would say boxing is doing much better right now then lets say 3 years ago, It's attracting a much younger audience with Manny and Mayweather. People used to say that Boxing only had one star with DLH but guess what? Now we have two huge stars with Pac and Mayweather.