Quote Originally Posted by Max Power View Post
Boxing will always be the number one fighting sport obviously.

Not enough people are stupid enough to participate in MMA as a sport to raise it to a truly professional level like boxing is.

Like Larry Merchant said you can't take a sport seriously in which you can be a world champion with a record of 6-2 or something like that.

The art of punching slick targets and learning how to slip punches exclusively requires far greater reflexes and speed than kicking and a lot higher skills than rolling around on the fucking floor.

I find MMA really boring, I've never seen a MMA fight which I can describe as a really terrific event like so many great boxing matches are.

Besides, MMA is really a local American contest with marginal worldwide involvement at this stage where as boxing has become a global sport.
MMA is here to stay... but will it ever be bigger and better than boxing? Most certainly not.

It's like soccer/football vs. rugby. Rugby is/was SUPPOSED to be the more aggressive style of field ball when compared to soccer, but is it "really" bigger and better than soccer?

You can answer that question. Rugby isn't going anywhere. It has it's following. But we know what the #1 sport in the world is- and it's soccer.