Quote Originally Posted by Von Milash
he has a big heart and he's strong, yes, but he has no BJJ to really speak of and he buries his head every time he punches. He was just waiting for an uppercut from Jardine.

Like I said, I think many of the top guys have talent, but in MMA right now, perhaps due to its popularity/demand, there has been a surge of fighters into the UFC and other orgs that really aren't very good. They're tough kids, but not what I'd consider purely talented.
Now it will have what boxing has had for years, heirarchies of talent. It will now have bums, journeymen, fringe contenders, and champs just like boxing. Now instead of people who truely like the sport of mma, you'll get the street punks that used to resort to boxing. So as mma fills up with these people, only truely dedicated boxers will turn pro in boxing. Thus uping the talent pool (maybe even in the heavyweight division) and helping out boxing YET again. If they are smart about it, they will still keep a strict hold on their good match-up fight making philosophy because if they don't, you'll get guys representing an organization that has built his record on bums. Then it becomes an argument of "Who really does have the least amount of bums in their organization". You get power struggles, matches don't get made because one org wants to protect its fighter from the other orgs champion because he can probably beat him and BAM now you have boxing politics in mma.

Boxing became the way it is now because of its former popularity. Business men saw it as a thing to cash in on and kids with no talent what so ever did it because they thought it was cool. You know how many cage fighting this and that ripoffs they have now? All they are are recruitment camps for mediocrity. Now you're flaunting around the mma ppv numbers and talking about how its more popular than boxing like it's a good thing. I'm not saying this is the end of your good fighters because there's good athletes perpetuated in every sport. There's probably a kid watching mma right now that will become one of it's best regarded fighters ever. It got the fame, and it has the fan base, now it has to deal with the negative backlash that follows. You guys say white is a good business man, hopefully he does his best to deal with this.