If UFC can do it, why can't the WBC/WBA/IBF Etc..

[DaxxKahn]

Hope that made sense by the way...

But seriously, my question is Why a sanctioning body has never really tried to approach the TV networks in this way


Alternatively, HBO could create their own belt then that would be that

I have thought this my self a few times.

I think its only a matter of time before another big MMA company is formed to rivel the UFC then they will have the same problems as boxing.

The WEC is on their tails and with some extra talent or promotion they could be stiff comp for the UFC...

[holmcall]

I watched Shamrock and this guy Kung Lee go at it in San Jose a while back, and I have to admit. it was damm interesting. Lee was like Bruce Lee for God's sakes and Shamrock, who almost pulled it out, was brutally stopped. Man that was a savage and bloody sanctioned street fight and I liked it. Now I say to myself if I liked it (and I have been a degenerate boxing fan for 60 years), what does that mean for a young guy who has a minimal boxing framework?

If I were to make a guess, MMA has a good run in front of it before it is met with the same sleezy underbelly of boxing. MMA-UFC should learn from boxing''s mistakes and past scandals.

Hell, I am actually looking forward to Carano vs. Cyborg. I dig Carano! She is hot.

[KananKrus]

Guys, if you liked the way Cung Le, an Asian American of Vietnamese decent fought, you too would have liked Alex Gong, another Asian American of Muay Thai fightiing background.

It is too bad that his life was cut short tragically, much like ala Vernon Forrest, he ran after a vandal doing a job on his car in a back parking lot.

Check him out, this guy is relentless in his style, and he shares the same sense of invincibility in Muay Thai, as to Cung Le in WuShu.

****

Speaking of WEC World Extreme Cage Fightiing...
Uriah Faber and Mike Brown, as mentioned by Bilbo, have fought twice for a title fight under the WEC banner.

[KananKrus]

Oftentimes it is the grappling and the long and enduring submissions techniques in an MMA fight that boxing afficionados like myself will find much to be unexciting. To add.. the neck-locks or submission techniques involving the neck, I find riveting. I refuse to bear witness to an accidental death in the ring. Accidental deaths in boxing carries a truer meaning to it than an accidental death in an MMA contest.

It has happened before, in an Octagon PPV match in the early 90's, which led to a temporary halt to the sport. The brutal sport soonafter was revived but now re-packaged, and likewise re introduced with the logical , weight classifications and set of rules in place to avert these accidental ring deaths.

They somehow put some logic on the restraints to lessen the savagery on display in an MMA fight.

If you like a high display of skill in fighting without the boring grappling and the cringe-inspiring death embraces, then K-1 (especially the heavies) or Muay Thai would be good alternatives to boxing, where striking is guaranteed, be it fistic or with kicks, the aspect in the fighting sport I do enjoy watching.

....and I don't have to worry about heads coming loose off their sockets!

[holmcall]

I really enjoy Muay Thai. Got to watch a lot of bouts while doing some R & R in Thailand.

[generalbulldog]

Oftentimes it is the grappling and the long and enduring submissions techniques in an MMA fight that boxing afficionados like myself will find much to be unexciting. To add.. the neck-locks or submission techniques involving the neck, I find riveting. I refuse to bear witness to an accidental death in the ring. Accidental deaths in boxing carries a truer meaning to it than an accidental death in an MMA contest.

It has happened before, in an Octagon PPV match in the early 90's, which led to a temporary halt to the sport. The brutal sport soonafter was revived but now re-packaged, and likewise re introduced with the logical , weight classifications and set of rules in place to avert these accidental ring deaths.

They somehow put some logic on the restraints to lessen the savagery on display in an MMA fight.

If you like a high display of skill in fighting without the boring grappling and the cringe-inspiring death embraces, then K-1 (especially the heavies) or Muay Thai would be good alternatives to boxing, where striking is guaranteed, be it fistic or with kicks, the aspect in the fighting sport I do enjoy watching.

....and I don't have to worry about heads coming loose off their sockets!

I think you summed it up pretty well, because there are a lot boxing fans out there that do not find the ground game appealing in MMA. I do enjoy Muay Thai kickboxing because of the strikes as do K1, but I don't think I can ever really be interested of MMA because of the grappling. It's just not aesthetically appealing.

[awdleyfuturehalloffamer]

i just watched the shamrock cung lee matchup and thought shamrock was going to knock cung lee out, then all of a sudden lee connects with a kick to the head with 10 seconds left in the round and shamrock couldn't recover in between rounds. Very technical fight but not to bad exciting wise.

[VictorCharlie]

i just watched the shamrock cung lee matchup and thought shamrock was going to knock cung lee out, then all of a sudden lee connects with a kick to the head with 10 seconds left in the round and shamrock couldn't recover in between rounds. Very technical fight but not to bad exciting wise.

Cung Le broke Shamrock's arm with a kick. That was why he didn't continue

[VictorCharlie]

Oftentimes it is the grappling and the long and enduring submissions techniques in an MMA fight that boxing afficionados like myself will find much to be unexciting. To add.. the neck-locks or submission techniques involving the neck, I find riveting. I refuse to bear witness to an accidental death in the ring. Accidental deaths in boxing carries a truer meaning to it than an accidental death in an MMA contest.

It has happened before, in an Octagon PPV match in the early 90's, which led to a temporary halt to the sport. The brutal sport soonafter was revived but now re-packaged, and likewise re introduced with the logical , weight classifications and set of rules in place to avert these accidental ring deaths.

They somehow put some logic on the restraints to lessen the savagery on display in an MMA fight.

If you like a high display of skill in fighting without the boring grappling and the cringe-inspiring death embraces, then K-1 (especially the heavies) or Muay Thai would be good alternatives to boxing, where striking is guaranteed, be it fistic or with kicks, the aspect in the fighting sport I do enjoy watching.

....and I don't have to worry about heads coming loose off their sockets!

Please cite a source for a death in a UFC PPV b/c I am pretty sure that never happened. I am aware of only one death ever in a sanctioned MMA fight and one in an unsanctioned fight done in Russia. I've seen stats list 70 deaths from sanctioned boxing matches since 1998 compared to 1 in MMA. So assuming my information is correct your disdain for "savagery" sounds more like ignorance of the tremendous talent and athleticism of the top mixed martial artists of the world.

[Hulk]

Hope that made sense by the way...

But seriously, my question is Why a sanctioning body has never really tried to approach the TV networks in this way


Alternatively, HBO could create their own belt then that would be that

I have thought this my self a few times.

I think its only a matter of time before another big MMA company is formed to rivel the UFC then they will have the same problems as boxing.

The WEC is on their tails and with some extra talent or promotion they could be stiff comp for the UFC...

I believe the UFC actually owns the WEC.

Sorry brother.
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