The loudest snobs I've ever heard!

[AdamGB]

MMA is dire...it's alot of under trained PED users who have found a way of earning a living,.,a bunch of mest heads who would struggle winning an area title in boxing...ala Kimbo bimbo

Too much gay carpet munching action for my liking and should be kept under ground

job biscuit (that's all)!!!

eh eh!!!

Kimbo didn't make it in the UFC.

He should never have even fought in the UFC, he should have never made it higher than one of the several mickey mouse MMA outfits out there.

Dana White let him fight in the UFC because he was after the Youtube hype, but IMO he reduced UFCs stock a little in doing so.

Clowns should only be allowed in circuses.

[Galaxy]

I just don't like the sport

Something about hitting a man when he's down doesn't sit right with me!

[beenKOed]

I just don't like the sport

Something about hitting a man when he's down doesn't sit right with me!

Goes against the grain, I know what you mean.
The more you learn about MMA the more you'll enjoy the ground game.

[Galaxy]

I just don't like the sport

Something about hitting a man when he's down doesn't sit right with me!

Goes against the grain, I know what you mean.
The more you learn about MMA the more you'll enjoy the ground game.

I'll watch a big card ever now & then with a mate who is in to it big time

I've watched it since the Gracie days, so I definitely understand the ground game

I just prefer boxing

[beenKOed]

MMA is dire...it's alot of under trained PED users who have found a way of earning a living,.,a bunch of mest heads who would struggle winning an area title in boxing...ala Kimbo bimbo

Too much gay carpet munching action for my liking and should be kept under ground

job biscuit (that's all)!!!

eh eh!!!

Kimbo didn't make it in the UFC.

He should never have even fought in the UFC, he should have never made it higher than one of the several mickey mouse MMA outfits out there.

Dana White let him fight in the UFC because he was after the Youtube hype, but IMO he reduced UFCs stock a little in doing so.

Clowns should only be allowed in circuses.

White doesn't make a lot of mistakes.

[AdamGB]

MMA is dire...it's alot of under trained PED users who have found a way of earning a living,.,a bunch of mest heads who would struggle winning an area title in boxing...ala Kimbo bimbo

Too much gay carpet munching action for my liking and should be kept under ground

job biscuit (that's all)!!!

eh eh!!!

Kimbo didn't make it in the UFC.

He should never have even fought in the UFC, he should have never made it higher than one of the several mickey mouse MMA outfits out there.

Dana White let him fight in the UFC because he was after the Youtube hype, but IMO he reduced UFCs stock a little in doing so.

Clowns should only be allowed in circuses.

White doesn't make a lot of mistakes.

Taking Kimbo seriously was one of them.

[Beanflicker]

I've followed MMA for 12 years and boxing for 10, so I post on boxing and MMA forums, and I can say that there is a lot of ignorance on both sides. Obviously there is a lot of overlap, as if you're a true fight fan, IMO you should be a fan of both sports.

I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that boxing people are threatened by MMA's success. The average kid now adays grows up wanting to be like Cain Velasquez or Anderson Silva, not Wladimir Klitschko or Floyd Mayweather. And a lot of that is boxing's failure: years of greedy promoters sucking the sport dry have really diminished the general public's interest in boxing IMO.

MMA also changed the way the public percieved hand to hand combat. The HW boxing champion was deemed the undisputed baddest man on the planet. It was hard to imagine anyone being able to take a prime Mike Tyson, Rocky Marciano or Joe Louis in a real fight. And when we thought of martial arts, we thought of flying kicks and ancient "death touches" - stuff we saw in the movies. MMA also exposed a lot of that nonsense.
Boxing snobs IMO are butt-hurt that the champion boxer is no longer viewed as the "baddest man on the planet", just like people who bought into the karate expert who can kill a man just by touching him.

But of course the #1 problem is ignorance, and that goes for both sides. Boxing snobs don't understand the grappling aspects of MMA and deem it to be primitive and unskillful (couldn't be more wrong). That's probably because, in boxing, we associate grappling (holding and grabbing) in a negative way (cowardice). In reality, it can take someone +10 years to earn a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. There's a lot more to it than just rolling around grabbing each other.

There's also the notion that MMA guys are "afraid to get hit", or that they can't take a punch like a boxer can. Well, that might be due to the fact that MMA uses 4oz gloves, which are a small step above getting punched bare-knuckled. Compare that to the 8 to 10oz boxing glove. Which would you rather get punched with?

Don't be a boxing snob, be a true fight fan. Give MMA a chance, learn the sport science of the game and let the promoters worry about which one is more popular. It's a great, exciting time to be an MMA fan as we're really in a new era in terms of skill and excitement.

[Beanflicker]

He should never have even fought in the UFC, he should have never made it higher than one of the several mickey mouse MMA outfits out there.

Dana White let him fight in the UFC because he was after the Youtube hype, but IMO he reduced UFCs stock a little in doing so.

Clowns should only be allowed in circuses.

To be fair, Dana did the right thing with Kimbo. Kimbo was HUGELY popular, but Dana made him go through The Ultimate Fighter to get a shot in the UFC. Kimbo was 3-1 in MMA at the time and beat a good fighter in Houston Alexander in his debut (although Alexander was a LHW). Kimbo worked for his shot, got it, got whipped by Mitrione and was sent packing.

But Dana did capitalize on the Kimbo Youtube sensation back in 2005 when he let Sean Gannon in on the merit of Sean beating Kimbo in a Youtube street fight. Gannon got absolutely destroyed and was sent packing.