Wow. I've Had Enough of this BS.......

[50RoX]

Boxing betta than MMA

all the ground work puts me off. i like striking sports like Boxing and K1 etc.

[Abe Attell]

Fights are also stopped to soon because of "Safety"

What makes boxing great is that people love to see a fight where somebody can be bloodied, have the **** kicked out of him for most of the fight, get knocked down, and come back to win;
Ex: Gatti


I also like to see fights where guys are up on their feet slugging it out, not on the floor acting out a scene from Brokeback Mountain.

All that said, I still respect any man that walks into the ring ready to fight

[neils7147933]

If I knew where the remote was on that night, I would've done the same, but thats only because I cant stand Mora. Boxing is in danger because the youths in America want to be basketball and football players, and have little interest in wanting to be boxers. Its a high risk-low reward sport for the most part even though its the most exciting sport. Isn't UFC on PPV only? Exactly.

UFC is on cable as well as PPV

[rooq]

i think that to be really into MMA you have to understand a little more about martial arts and grappling/submission than tha average fight fan.

in tha uk it hasn't really taken off...there was an event in manchester a few months ago which was well hyped up cos mike tyson was a guest ref, but everyone i know who went thought it was really boring with a few leaving early...probably to watch the fights in manchester city centre instead.

personally, i used to be well into muaythai of which there are some elements used in MMA, but i still find most of the ufc fights i've seen boring as hell...

[grayfist]

If it's the number of offensive tools permitted in a sport that can make it bigger than others, then Muay Thai, where you are allowed to use elbows knees and feet along with fists, would have long ago eclipsed boxing. Alongside it would have been Tai Kwon Do, Karate, Jit Kun Do, etc.MMA, I view as an amalgam of various bare-handed disciplines, including boxing. As a combination of many (I still won't say, "all") "martial' sports, it allows combatants to use more offensive weapons than are available to a boxer, thus, prompting enthusiasts to expect it to drive western-style fights out of the limelight. I however have doubts. Sports hybrids are notoriously less able to evolve and subsequently fail to capture the mainstream fancy. The main sports today in spite of some similarities with other sports, remain definable ones: basketball, soccer, American Football, wresling, baseball, golf, volleyball, and yes, boxing. On the oval, the most exciting event is still the 100-m sprint, not the decathlon, pentathlon, etc. In Hawaii, there was (I suppose, there still is) an event called, "The Iron Man", where contestants vie to get scores in various events such as swimming, biking, running, climbing, etc. The contestant who gets the highest comulative score wins. It was on free TV for a while and had an average following. I don't see it now.

Also, back then, there were predictions that mini-golf would eclipse golf, what with the low demands on the pocket of patrons and the small real estate required by the game. Mini-links quickly sprung up all over the American landscape. After a decade or so, it went the way of drive-in movies.

[blockhead]

UFC is like a Ruiz fight with two guys laying on the ground instead of standing.

yes it is. that **** is for ****s and hillbillies.

[beezy 14]

Man I'm sick of hearing that as well the UFC and similar events don't have the history and the icons to ever overtake boxing in the near future.The olympics and several other things contribute to boxing being a step above,and the only reason it gets some shine is because the negatives that are in boxing turns some people away. I don't think it'll ever surpass boxing.

[Mr. Violence]

from these guys from UFC. This guy said boxing is in trouble because UFC is here to take over. Yea....ok.




PS: Shows on ESPN, 'Quite Frankly' as we speak.

This is true. I myself have given up much of boxing to watch mixed Martial Arts. I got tired of all the bad decisions in boxing.....for example the ripping off of Bernard Hopkins against Taylor has made me dislike boxing even more...this has been building up for years and years of bad decisions in boxing. Mixed Martial Arts is the future of Combat Sports.

[beezy 14]

Johnny swift,I agree there have been some terrible decisions but you really felt that Hopkins/Taylor bout made you hate boxing? I thought that the bouts were extremely close and didn't think that Bernard did enough to say it was a robbery. Isn't that when 1 fighter clearly won the fight, Bhop lost the first half of the fight before he did much. Basicly IMO it was close and either could of won but I don't think anybody could say robbery. And doesn't potential fights like PBF/Hatton keep you in love with it? Or classics like the Corrales/Castillo fight? I know there is B.S. don't get me wrong but these other events that I mentioned will always keep me intrigued by boxing.

[Mr. Violence]

Johnny swift,I agree there have been some terrible decisions but you really felt that Hopkins/Taylor bout made you hate boxing? I thought that the bouts were extremely close and didn't think that Bernard did enough to say it was a robbery. Isn't that when 1 fighter clearly won the fight, Bhop lost the first half of the fight before he did much. Basicly IMO it was close and either could of won but I don't think anybody could say robbery. And doesn't potential fights like PBF/Hatton keep you in love with it? Or classics like the Corrales/Castillo fight? I know there is B.S. don't get me wrong but these other events that I mentioned will always keep me intrigued by boxing.

Dont get me wrong I still watch boxing....but I dont like it as much as I used to. It wasn't the just the Hopkins rip off that made me dislike it but that was the final straw among a long list of rip offs over the years. Here's a few famous ripoffs for example:

Hagler vs. leonard
Hearns vs. Leonard the rematch
Chavez vs. Sweetpea Whitaker
Chavez vs. Randall the rematch
Holmes vs. Spinks the rematch
Lewis vs. Mercer

these are just a few ripoffs in boxing history that had just added up over the years. Finally when they rip offed Hopkins i just about had it. And my love for boxing has gone to about a 10 to a 5 on the ratings scale.