As a boxing fan, do you like MMA or Pro Wrestling?

[Queen_Leia]

This weekend had plenty of action from all three combat sports


As a fan of combat sports, can you see yourself watching mix martial arts or pro wrestling and if you watch both, how does it compare to the other combat sport we love, boxing?

[The D3vil]

This weekend had plenty of action from all three combat sports


As a fan of combat sports, can you see yourself watching mix martial arts or pro wrestling and if you watch both, how does it compare to the other combat sport we love, boxing?

Boxing is my favorite sport

Wrestling is my favorite form of "entertainment".

They don't compete at all and compliment each other well.

Hell, the character of "Muhammad Ali" was based on Gorgeous George.

Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather and Ronda Rousey and all these super tough boxers and MMA fighters are wrestling fans.

I'll never get how people can just write of wrestling because it's fake as if movies and TV and video games aren't fake as well.

It's choreographed entertainment, just like a play or a movie.

It's also about controlling crowds. Being able to get somebody to cheer or boo based on what you're doing on the microphone. Guys like Steve Austin, The Rock, Paul Heyman and Vince McMahon are better than ***** at crowd control and making speeches that can elicit cheers or boos based on the character they're playing.

It's great.

That being said WWE is trash and has been for a very long time because of mismanagement and bad storyline writers.

But Lucha Underground is one of the best shows on TV, period and New Japan is always entertaining.

MMA is just boring to me.

It's like watching guys throw the kitchen sink out there.

Part of it is "real" wrestling, which is so boring that people had to invent "pro" wrestling in order to get people to watch it.

Then, it's that mixed with mediocre boxing technique, like the one Ronda Rousey got her ass waxed with against Holly Holm.

Then somebody does a kick or something.

I respect the talent it takes to do it, but I don't like watching MMA at all.

[original zero]

Have watched boxing & pro wrestling since 1988 and MMA since 1993. For many years, MMA was my strong preference of the three, but over the last decade, I've lost a lot of interest in MMA. These days I definitely watch more boxing than anything else.

Having worked in all three industries, I can say that all three businesses are VERY similar, far more so than the people working in them realize. Most fans are always going to prefer one style of fighting over another, but the basic tenets of how to get people interested in a fight have always remained the same, regardless of the style of fighting.

[Kay D]

Ironically Mayweather made a great pro wrestler. His work with Big Show back in 2008 was brilliant. He had everything today's current pro wrestlers lack- real charisma and personality. He was a fantastic heel.

Pro wrestling is wonderful to watch when you get past the "this is fake" nonsense. Enjoy it like you would a live musical...only with actual bumps and brutality.

I prefer pro wrestling over MMA, without a doubt.

[original zero]

Kay, I agree 100%. Floyd did a GREAT job. I was at WrestleMania that year and Floyd was one of the best things on the show IMO.

WrestleMania this year is looking WEAK. As soon as I wake up I'm flying out to Dallas for some of the WrestleMania week festivities, but flying back before WrestleMania itself. No interest in the actual show.

[Fury4daWIN]

I used to love WWF back in the late 80s early 90s. There was just something uniquely awesome about the fusion of cheese and badassery that's never been matched since. So many characters. Dudes in handlebars and croc skins fighting dayglo cowboys, hillbillies with 2x4s, huge fatasses wearing leotards, crazy Conan the Barbarian knockoffs in tiny speedos having seizures on the ring ropes while a supertanned Hulk Hogan rips his stretchy lemon yellow vest off. Fcuking good times.

MMA I've kind of dipped into now and again. I sort of like the idea behind it, and love their promotion and production values, but the fights themselves I often find underwhelming. It also doesn't help that the aspect of unarmed combat I like the most, striking, is also the most underdeveloped aspect for many of its competitors. There've been some great MMA matches though, mostly in Pride. This song still gives me shivers.



For a while I was really into K-1, and followed it religiously. Andy Hug, Ernesto Hoost, Peter Aerts, Mike Bernardo, some massively talented strikers competed in that promotion back in the day, and it's telling that two of its second rate fighters in Matt Skelton and Alexander Ustinov were able to make a decent career in the heavyweight division. Here's le Banner literally lifting a guy off his feet with a body shot.

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I started to lose interest when it became a freakshow, however. Bob Sapp was the beginning of the end. Could never really get into Badr Hari either. Dude was just too sloppy and inconsistent.

[Greed.]

I enjoy MMA, especially good strikers like the Diaz bros, Edgar, Rumble, Wonderboy etc.

[Queen_Leia]

This weekend had plenty of action from all three combat sports

Brock Lesnar (pro wrestler/MMA fighter) just beat a kickboxer in Mark Hunt. Round two was interesting with Hunt looking for the overhand right but Lesnar movement and defense saved him.


As a fan of combat sports, can you see yourself watching mix martial arts or pro wrestling and if you watch both, how does it compare to the other combat sport we love, boxing?

[juggernaut666]

This weekend had plenty of action from all three combat sports

Brock Lesnar (pro wrestler/MMA fighter) just beat a kickboxer in Mark Hunt. Round two was interesting with Hunt looking for the overhand right but Lesnar movement and defense saved him.


As a fan of combat sports, can you see yourself watching mix martial arts or pro wrestling and if you watch both, how does it compare to the other combat sport we love, boxing?

The bell saved Hunt in round one,he was about to get pounded severly in full mount.

Unless you know whats going on in MMa one wont typically like it even though theres far more going on. I watched UFC one live so.................. its no comparison for me since im multi dimensional not just boxing abled. I enjoy watching ppl get choked out as well as knocked out.


WWE stopped being relevant for me after it was the WWF...................

[Queen_Leia]

Ronda Rousey is returning to UFC in December, meanwhile tonight in the WWE, Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks had one heck of a Hell in the Cell match.

Manny and Jesse do battle next week on PPV.


As a fan of combat sports, can you see yourself watching mix martial arts or pro wrestling and if you watch both, how does it compare to the other combat sport we love, boxing?