I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking any boxing matchup between Jones Jr and Silva is a complete farce of a fight, but it also hihglights the unconscious arrogance of the boxing world's mindset, and how they arn't yet tuned in to the new reality.

Mixed martial arts, is where the best practictioners of ALL fighting styles meet to put their strengths against each other.

We have Ju Jitsu masters like BJ Penn, Juda stars like Lyoto Machida and wrestlers like Brock Lesnar all figting in mixed martial arts against the best.

Boxing is a martial art just like any other, but its stars seem to think that they can take on an MMA star in their OWN limited battlefield of boxing.

It's ridiculous frankly.

Brock Lesnar didn't challenge Randy Couture to a wrestling contest and Machida didn't try and get the best in the UFC to fight with him in a judo fight, no they all fight with each allowed to practice their own fight style, it's the clash of styles, which martial art is the best, who is the best fighter in the world, a great and lofty challenge imo.

But boxers who talk about MMA always want to bring the MMA star into boxing when it should be the other way around.

Take your boxing into the Octagon and pit it against another's Ju Jitsu, wrestling or Muay Thia.

It annoys me that they claim to be the best athletes in the world, the best fighters in the world but they arn't willing to back that up and fight in a mixed martial arts event where they can match their own fighting art against the fighting art of anther.

Forcing Silva to box is like saying you are going to fight one on one with a rottweiler, both unarmed, certainly a dangerous fight for a man, but then in the rules stipulate the rotweiler must be muzzled or have its teeth removed.

It's not really the same thing, in fact I reckon even I could put up a good fight against a rottweiler that was muzzled, after all what is it going to do, trample me to death?

Anyway it annoys me. I know the boxing world still sees itself as the only legitimate form of professional combat sport but eventually that will change and maybe then we might even see boxers entering the MMA world and putting their own martial art against the martial arts of other great fighters there.