Mma

[donnydarkoIRL]

I hear you Diz.
Agree on everything

[El Kabong]

I'm not resentful of MMA....I just don't like it.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Fair stance to take.

[luvfightgame]

I'm a fan of both. I don't get the hatred from boxing fans. To me they are similar sports, so it's mind boggling how you can be a fan of one and hate the other.

I hate golf, nascar, and baseball. Playing them is fine, but watching.... i'd rather watch paint dry. Still as much as I dislike those sports I know the people are athletes and have a high level of skill. I don't discredit their skill level, just dont want to watch it.

I watch both boxing and MMA regularly and if they are both on at the same time, I choose by which has the more seemingly competitive fight. I have been very impressed by how MMA keeps their fighters evenly matched more often and don't tank a fighter for losing a fight.

Boxing has more inflated records and less competitive fights. There's just too much build up, and one sided match making. So many undefeated guys who've never had a challenge. And a big part of the problem is the commentators. They make it seem like a fighter if finished if they lose a close fight. Too many guys are afraid to take a challenge cause their career is sidetracked. Fortunately the lower weights have less of this. Vasquez and Marquez, etc...

Overall, I like both. MMA gets me more tense. I noticed when I am watching, I clench my muscles and have to actually tell myself to relax. Boxing is a different kind of excitement. So I can see why some are turned off by the part of MMA. It's a different brutality to get held down and get your face beat in, than getting hit and knocked down.

[bcollins]

Great post. I love boxing, and watch MMA occasionally. I think participants in both sports - in any combat sport - deserve a hell of a lot of respect. I think a lot of the resentment is the buzz surrounding MMA is detracting from boxing. A lot of the declining popularity of boxing should be attributed to the organizations and promoters, not at the feet of MMA organizations.

I give two thumbs up to the idea of respecting both sports.

[El Kabong]

I'm a fan of both. I don't get the hatred from boxing fans. To me they are similar sports, so it's mind boggling how you can be a fan of one and hate the other.

Ummm have you met any MMA fans lately? Like the guys who like The Ultimate Fighter and Chuck Liddel?

I have never seen a group of people who so want to live up to the roid rage, tribal tatoo, gangster wannabe, angry rock loving, oppressed middle class emo stereotype....it's like they aim to be pricks.


I dislike MMA and the stereotypical MMA fan...I have friends who like MMA and think it's the greatest thing ever but I like boxing and won't ever switch sides

[donnydarkoIRL]

I'm a fan of both. I don't get the hatred from boxing fans. To me they are similar sports, so it's mind boggling how you can be a fan of one and hate the other.

Ummm have you met any MMA fans lately? Like the guys who like The Ultimate Fighter and Chuck Liddel?

I have never seen a group of people who so want to live up to the roid rage, tribal tatoo, gangster wannabe, angry rock loving, oppressed middle class emo stereotype....it's like they aim to be pricks.


I dislike MMA and the stereotypical MMA fan...I have friends who like MMA and think it's the greatest thing ever but I like boxing and won't ever switch sides

Our No.1 guy?

I actually believe he's a nice guy, but are you telling everybody he doesn't aim to be nasty?

[El Kabong]

Our No.1 guy?

I actually believe he's a nice guy, but are you telling everybody he doesn't aim to be nasty?

I said the people that like him....hell look at Joe Rogan, Matt Hughes, Dana White, and next time you go out to the bar look for a guy weaing an Affliction shirt trying to look all swole up.


Is there a reason for their bad attitudes? Maybe. Is it annoying FUCK YES! OK we get it, you have the emotional intelligence of a 3rd grader and want to solve all your crappy life's problems with your fists.....you can't punch your way into a better world buddy

[luvfightgame]

I'm a fan of both. I don't get the hatred from boxing fans. To me they are similar sports, so it's mind boggling how you can be a fan of one and hate the other.

Ummm have you met any MMA fans lately? Like the guys who like The Ultimate Fighter and Chuck Liddel?

I have never seen a group of people who so want to live up to the roid rage, tribal tatoo, gangster wannabe, angry rock loving, oppressed middle class emo stereotype....it's like they aim to be pricks.


I dislike MMA and the stereotypical MMA fan...I have friends who like MMA and think it's the greatest thing ever but I like boxing and won't ever switch sides

I get you. I hate a lot of fans too. I went to the Zab/PBF fight and I wanted to murder about a dozen idiots sitting near me. Anyway why hate the sport. It sounds like you hate retarded fans. Watching grown men punch each other in the face is great whether they roll around barefoot or run around with shoes on. It's pretty much the same for me.

As far as boxing having more skill, or strategy MMA has much more that you need to be good at. It's like saying theres more strategy in checkers than chess. I'm still a boxing fan. But MMA has more available moves than boxing. Like I said, checkers and chess. It really is.....

[Bomp]

I'm a fan of both. I don't get the hatred from boxing fans. To me they are similar sports, so it's mind boggling how you can be a fan of one and hate the other.

I hate golf, nascar, and baseball. Playing them is fine, but watching.... i'd rather watch paint dry. Still as much as I dislike those sports I know the people are athletes and have a high level of skill. I don't discredit their skill level, just dont want to watch it.

I watch both boxing and MMA regularly and if they are both on at the same time, I choose by which has the more seemingly competitive fight. I have been very impressed by how MMA keeps their fighters evenly matched more often and don't tank a fighter for losing a fight.

Boxing has more inflated records and less competitive fights. There's just too much build up, and one sided match making. So many undefeated guys who've never had a challenge. And a big part of the problem is the commentators. They make it seem like a fighter if finished if they lose a close fight. Too many guys are afraid to take a challenge cause their career is sidetracked. Fortunately the lower weights have less of this. Vasquez and Marquez, etc...

Overall, I like both. MMA gets me more tense. I noticed when I am watching, I clench my muscles and have to actually tell myself to relax. Boxing is a different kind of excitement. So I can see why some are turned off by the part of MMA. It's a different brutality to get held down and get your face beat in, than getting hit and knocked down.

I can find MMA fights entertaining, but it's boxing all the way for me. There's mutual resentment because the sports are in competition for fans, I don't know who started it but both sports are trying to score points off the other.

The problem I mainly have is that the words MMA and UFC are far too interchangeable. Compared to boxing (as a complete sport, not just one organisation) the UFC may appear to have competitive fights, but that's because they cherry pick the best fighters, but I bet in MMA as a whole that many mismatches are presented. Boxers have lobsided records (usually) before becoming champions because they have to build experience, and the guys who fights the widest variey of styles often end up better fighters for it. MMA fighters do not fight often enough at the start of their careers and they eventually fight something they haven't seen before and lose their title early in their reign.

There's a lot about MMA to like, they have commited athletes that show good sportmanship, but at the end of the day boxing is my favourite sport and since so many ignorant followers of MMA diss boxing I can't warm to it.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Our No.1 guy?

I actually believe he's a nice guy, but are you telling everybody he doesn't aim to be nasty?

1.I said the people that like him....hell look at Joe Rogan, Matt Hughes, Dana White, and next time you go out to the bar look for a guy weaing an Affliction shirt trying to look all swole up.


Is there a reason for their bad attitudes? Maybe. Is it annoying FUCK YES!
2. OK we get it, you have the emotional intelligence of a 3rd grader and want to solve all your crappy life's problems with your fists.....you can't punch your way into a better world buddy

1.Thousands upon thousands of fans strive to be like their boxing idols too.
We are not innocent of this crime either (our sport.)

2. I'm hoping that was directed at the mma fan's and not me personally.