Comments Thread For: Claressa Shields: For Women, More Exposure in UFC Than In Boxing

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Claressa Shield can't help but think that the grass is greener on the other side. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-division titlist is one of boxing's standout talents and the current poster child for woman's boxing in particular. But Shields (10-0, 2 KOs) knows she would be fooling herself if she didn't think that the gap between female boxers and their male counterparts still remains dauntingly wideeverything from pay to the marketing budget. She has noticed, though, that this discrepancy doesn't really exist over in the mixed-martial-arts universe of the UFC or at least it's not as wide as it is in boxing.
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It's certainly true that women in MMA get more exposure. It's also true that most viewers are ambivalent at best about WMMA, while many wish they were not on the main cards or that WMMA had their own cards (so they could be ignored).

There's basically affirmative action going on with WMMA, and they are used as filler as well.

Maybe if Claressa had more KOs, she'd be more interesting. She could also learn some TDD and try WMMA, if she wants.

Shields should be looking to get on the undercard of any large fight that she can though, instead of thinking she's so special to only be on a championship PPV fight card. She doesn't make the rules. In an A-side, B-side world ... she's a Z-side. Nobody cares about her or women's boxing, or she'd already be having her own PPVs.

[Smash]

girl u cant even stop a bum, that does not help at all

[Butt stuff]

There’s more depth to WMMA nowadays, more competitive and brutal fights and KO’s. Women’s boxing is awful for depth. At middleweight there’s only 32 recorded female fighters on boxrec worldwide. Only 14 of them have winning records. And only 5 of them have won over 5 fights.

[Butt stuff]

girl u cant even stop a bum, that does not help at all

So true, even when WMMA didn’t have much depth, at least Rousey was arm barring everyone she went up against and looking like a monster.

[jonnyc420]

I'm surprised she didn't mention her skin color, she usually obsessed about that.

[Roberto Vasquez]

Yep it's all about KOs

MMA women only got attention when Ronda Rousey was stopping everyone fast with her arm-bars. She brought attention to the whole division and with MMA you have female fighters who can stop people fast with punches and kicks or submissions.

No one outside the hardcore wants to watch a more boring version of male-boxing. Sorry but it's true.

[juandabomb]

Plain and simple..start knocking opponents

[Marvlus Marv]

Women's boxing is usually boring af. It's that simple. Punters on the whole want excitement not some shtitty version of the men's game.

[Mindgames]

As others have said, the action and level of skill in Women's MMA is far higher than that of boxing, which I used to dread appearing on any bill I'd sat down to watch, say an Eddie Hearn ppv. It's just so damn boring, and Sky making Katie Taylor boxer of the year, patronisingly, since she arguably lost twice in a short space of time, aint making it any better.