I agree I find the hate for MMA on this site absolutely amazing. I understand how some people just don't enjoy it but the continous statements that MMA fighters aren't top level atheletes and that the sport has not science or technique is just absurd. I think alot of people simply aren't aware that the UFC is just one part of the sport that is MMA and not the whole. Plus I think the white trash opinion stems from UFC's early days when many of the contestants were more like the local karate tough man variety versus the multifaceted world class atheletes we get today. I love both sports, I think MMA is growing rapidly and I think the proliferation of belts/Alphabets orgs/shoddy promoters is pulling boxing into one of its darkest times. All that being said they aren't anywhere close to on par with one another. I guess the growth of a sport that many on this site deem the same as professional wrestling or a fringe sport at best causes a knee jerk reaction to belittle it regardless of their own ignorance about it.