MMA bigger than Boxing?

[Tiger J]

MMA will never be bigger than boxing..when you want to know the answer ask youself who gets paid more? Boxers or mixed martial artist? they should use that skill on the silver screen in hollywood and make way more money....

I STRONGLY disagree. UFC has established a HUGE fan base over the past year. They're moving on to bigger and more popular venues. UFC Unleashed and the Ultimate Fighter are Spike TV's biggest shows. It's only a matter of time before they start making nearly as much, although, I think boxing should get more, since its a WAY more dangerous sport.

Pride pretty much runs the show in Japan. They just recently had Mark Hunt vs. The Japanese Cruiserweight Champion as the main event to one of their shows. It was insanely good. Boxer vs. MMA striker. They get paid a lot more in Pride than they do in UFC. It's a much better promotion. They have better fighters, and better fights, which is why it's so big in Japan. They rake in huge live audiences, much bigger than UFC.

As for the Silver Screen remark, there already is an actual MMA movie. It's called No Rules. Randy Couture, and Frank Shamrock are in it. Although the acting is terrible, consider it to be the first step to some of the greatest movies of all time.

I didn't mean try to win the academy award..i'm just saying that they could make some action movies....I like UFC..in fact you could agree that you or I and anybody else on here, must love or like fighting wheter watching it or competing in it...but seriously..mma,K1,ufc, none of it will ever surpass boxing....boxing has too much history behind it...too much of a headstart...it will take something like don king or bob arum to promote one of the fighters and put them on a major boxing undercard or something....other than that it will never generate the kind of money that boxing does...it's seen as bar fighting...not by me or any other real fighting fan...but to the general public and that won't make money

Last I checked, when boxing originated basically from MMA. Back when John L. Sullivan was the champ, and they fought in the fucking woods becuase it was illegal. They were allowed take downs, and submissions. They fought with no gloves. Those who participad were considered brutal and barbaric. Sure people see UFC as streetfighting. And thats exactly what people thought about boxing, until it was legalized and given structure.

I'm not saying boxing doesn't have the greatest history of all sports. It does. But who's to say that 100 years from now that MMA will be looked at the way we look at late 1800's boxing now? Who's to say that Randy Couture wont be considered the James Tunney of MMA 100 years from now?

The world evolves. Sports evolved. There will be no need for boxing. We've evolved into better, and more technical combat sports. I'm not saying the sport of boxing is useless. I love it, equally to how much I love MMA.