Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
In reply to a post I made about Lennox Lewis

"Fighting smart may be good for their health, but it isn't good for the sport. No one wants to watch two oafs paw each other round after round before the judges decide who did the better pawing."


I think boxing is doing ok...it's never going to be as popular as it used to be in the 1920's to 1960's...hell even in the 1980's boxing's appeal was losing ground to the NBA, MLB, and NFL.

Sure if there were bigger fights or better fights then that would be great but a fighter's job is to WIN...marketing and mass appeal comes in a distant second.

The UFC and MMA have done major marketing campaigns and look at it....it's a crap product but no one cares to mention anything about it because of the "mass appeal" and "exposure"
I'd like to clarify that no part of that was directed at Lennox and I avoided saying anything about the video for that very reason. You'd have to be a fucking tool to call Lennox an oaf.

As for a fighters job being to win, you're right, they are supposed to win, but they're also entertainers as ALL professional sportsmen and athletes are. If every football game consisted of both teams running the same running play up the middle every down of every quarter of every game, guess what? I wouldn't watch football and neither would too many other people, regardless of what the teams' justification for doing so was.

And about MMA, though God only knows why I'm even talking about it, it's a joke. It's a side show. Hell, I'll take it a step further and say it's barely a step above professional wrestling.