Dana White Angry At HBO's Telecast of PBF/JMM fight

[Spicoli]

He's just pandering to his flock,riding coat tails.To me its not about 'defending' the fight but recongnozing a carnival barking fool.Lets face it,we hate paying for any one fight...funny how he forgets that boxing has undercards as well....but as far as athletes and lifeblood,its quality over quanity.Boxing has huge problems and will not stay the same,but its not going anywhere.....years from now Dana White will be the answer to some trivia question.

[blegit]

Well, Dana White picked the wrong card on both accounts. Look at the UFC 103 card and then the Mayweather/Marquez card. The boxing card is loaded and the UFC card is mediocre at best. But I choose not to put too much into Dana White speaking. He is just a loud mouth because he has been given a nice amount of power. I like MMA a lot so I will not put it down because of Dana White's mouth once again opened. MMA is nice and so is the UFC. As far as I see the only thing wrong with UFC and MMA is Dana White. Cut him out and we have a great sport which realizes it can co-exist with boxing.

[Youngblood]

Yup. Just barking is right Spicoli. And I'd much rather watch the quality of fighting on a great card like this then a buncha 1 or maybe 3 round weener wars.

I think people really forget how much skill is involved in the seemingly simple process of throwing and defending punches within the squared circle. Mano a mano. It's more of an art then many realize. It doesn't surprise me when I see someone come along and think switching gloves to 4 oz might make it better, or creating some kinda new marketing technique will improve it, etc. Well the fact is, it won't. It is already an amazing process of pure skill, athleticism, will, near torturous training all woven into an amazing challenge of one opponent against another, in one of the most primal of human nature's motivations, to battle, to conquer.

The fact that it is simplistic in nature is what has held it's appeal for so long, and why it will continue to. Other fads will come and go. Products of cultural trends. Enigmatic people will come and go. Boxing will remain.

I don't generally get too pissed at Dana White with all of his blatherings, but I found this one particularly offensive. And not just for the out and out disrespect he has for the fighters, but for the disrespect he is starting to show for boxing, period. Without it he'd be nothing.

And long after Dana White is gone, and he is little more then an after thought or trivia question, boxing will still be. Of this I am certain.

[jamiebhoy]

At the end of the day the two sports are seperate and should be confident enough and strong enough to stand alone and apart without a slanging match from either side.

If Dana wants to take it to the most basic facts it's this. Boxing is Boxing, hasn't changed apart from some rules the basics have always been the same.

MMA - a mishmash of various sports which alone do not stand up, I don't see that many people( in relation to boxing) showing up for a main event of Ju jitsu,Judo,Wrestling (the real stuff not the chair over the head shit)

People like White and Arum need to just concentrate on giving their own fans what they want , a good match up with a decent undercard for an affordable price to the real fans.

Rant over.