I like both but boxing's clearly my favorite.
I'm just not one of those people that gets excited when an MMA fight goes to the ground, its rare that it doesn't bore me. Maybe I just don't appreciate Brazillian Jiu Jitsu enough, who knows. I guess that's one of my main problems with the sport overall.
And the striking is less skillful IMO, although some of that I'm sure does have to do with worrying about takedowns, even a guy like Pulver is a pretty mediocre looking boxer, he was on ESPN 2 one night and just looked average at best. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, obviously he takes MMA more seriously. Not to say that there aren't some good strikers in MMA.
But I like it overall, have some favorites like Shogun (By the way has he come back yet, haven't really been paying attention), CroCop, Fedor, St. Pierre, but its not anywhere near boxing to me.
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