UFC's Frank Mir: "If not for their 2 or 3 superstars, Boxing would be DEAD"

[Snopkins]

To be fair, Tim Sylvia was ****** and overlooked Mercer, he hadn't trained much and came in weighing like 30-40 pounds more than he usually weighs in.

Then it's a good thing it only last nine seconds then,isn't it? Or did Tim Sylvia suddenly gas the moment he threw a kick and broke the gentleman's agreement with a near 50 year old man to throw only punches

[sofreshhh]

Yeah, and if it wasn't for the ref stopping your fight with Lesnar, you'd be dead.

LOLOL This is the best statement i read all day. You guys are the best.

[signzoe]

[aristotlemoses]

People who try to say boxing is dead don't actually watch the sport or try to learn about any of the fighters. 140 to me is a great weight class with lots of potential good match ups. 154-160 is kinda depleted, but there the likes of Pavlik Williams Martinez with some up and comers and fighters like Cintron and everybody. 168 is good. And then you have lower class fighers like Lopez and Gamboa rising up. Boxing is far from dead....the promoters maybe scumbags and don't really know how to market these fighters but the sport is far from dead.

[The Gambler1981]

That is always how boxing is, there are always a couple guys who are at the head of the class and all the media wonders what will happean to the sport once those guys are gone. They would get replaced eventually, it has happeaned before so I am confident it will happean again.

[Thornton Melon]

So who is exactly are the superstars in UFC ? I cant name any. I cant name any heavyweights either? Pretty sad when your biggest star has a record of 3-1.

[kbpoetree]

OMG soo whats funny is while all the MMA fighters are tryen their hardest to kill boxing boxers are like whatever to MMA and also whats funny is MMA is killen themselves talken all this mess but they are now making more and more diff leagues leaving the talent more and more spread out...Least in boxing the divisions can still fight each other and intertwine..lol jus lol at the attempts of MMA to kill boxing when if they were smart jus try and coincide w em..dumbasses jus dumbasses course i know they mad cause not any of em can fight standen up toe to toe wich is y they go the MMA rout

[-The Glove-]

Boxing needs to unify under one commission. One champ per weight class. The best fight the best. Iunno bout y'all tho, but Im excited for next Saturday, the 27th. GSP vs Hardy. Mir vs Carwin. Cards pretty stacked!

[deezdominates]

Mir said boxing's decline has forced the sport to put together substandard match-ups because there are few bankable stars in its divisions.

"They're trying to move guys into different weight classes to make superfights," he said. "There's really no weight division that has anything going on in it. If you look at boxing as far as (the) mainstream, I think you're hard pressed now to even ask people who's in the heavyweight division in boxing, which has always been one of the premier weight classes for the sport of boxing.

"Right now, if it wasn't for the two or three superstars that they have in their sport willing to fight each other even through they're not in the same weight class I don't think you'd have any boxing matches going on whatsoever."

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slu...alk_fan_apathy

Boxing has been dead in the mainstream media for years now. And if a sport is decided on being alive and well based on(american) national media, then yes I guess boxing is dead. But thanks to this world champion killer he's bringing it back by mentioning it to the media, what an irony

[kbpoetree]

James Toney should jus fight Mir kayo him and call it good lol