This is why MMA SUCKS!!

The UFC generated more money than any other PPV company in 2006 , including HBO and Showtime.

 

I think we should nominate this for dan-b's "dumbest thread of the year". It just keeps getting better....

 

WOW 1 YEAR MORON....2007 Boxing kicked its ass in numbers and $...Boxers make more $ than UFC fighters because there fans are a of more higher caliber of people...MMA has 1 demographic 18-34 white males and its just fact...Boxing is a world wide sport, with a history an tradition an a olympic sport MMA doesnt have any of that its a fad that will fade

 

Settle down....did someone strike a nerve or what? :hi:

 

Look you ignorant ****er, the guy made a comment that "MMA at its best could never come close to boxing numbers" like thats some sort of damning statement. I provided facts that proved otherwise, if those facts don't sit well with your fingers in the ears world view, **** you.

 

I'm just glad that there are more fighting sports to watch on TV, rather than more NASCAR or bowling.

 

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someone buy this man a beer

 

What the hell are you talking about? Just because MMA may not be an olympic sport doesn't mean it doesn't have olympic caliber athletes:-( Or athletes that have competed in the olympics. Yoshida is a world olympic Judo champion. Let me not even fail to mention all the olympic caliber wrestlers. Just because you always see an olympic Boxer persue a professional career in Boxing doesn't mean there olympic backround is worth more than what other athletes in other area's are doing. Kurt Angle won his 1996 olympic gold medal in wrestling with a broken neck and I think that's the most amazing thing any athlete can do, especially over a Boxer. And what's up with all this demographic 18-34 white males crap? Last time i saw MMA and the UFC attract a world wide fan base. You don't have to be a white guy within the ages of 18-34 to have interest in MMA. That is ridiculous. I the first person I heard say that was Lou Dibella and I swear I wanted to kick the TV in when said that dumb ****

 

Damn, alot of hardcore boxing fans are some of the most insecure whiniest bitches on the face of the earth.
Every week there is a thread attacking MMA, quite pathetic really. Can't you stand the fact there is a new combat sport on the scene taking alot of boxings limelight?
For a sport that has only been around since 1993 to break the PPV records of 2006 against a sport thats been around for about 150 years is pretty successful don't ya think? For a combat sport thats only been around 15 years to become as popular and well known as a sport that has been as popular and well known as boxing which has been around for hundreds of years is pretty damn successful ain't it?
The rise to the top has been pretty fast huh?

MMA is more popular than Boxing in Japan
MMA is more popular than Boxing in Korea
MMA is more popular than Boxing in Brazil
MMA is near enough equal in popularity in USA

Boxing worldwide sport? Yes.
MMA worldwide sport? Yes.

As to the numbers who follow MMA or boxing more worldwide, I would not be suprised at all to find that the figures are comparable.
MMA is only going to get more popular and more successful.
Deal with it.

 

i like MMA a lot. I like boxing a lot more.

The Lesnar-Mir fight is exactly why MMA is good. Lesnar did foul him, that was why they were separated. Hitting in the back of the head is a serious foul, just like in boxing.

Then Lesnar pounced on him, and all of a sudden, Mir had his leg and it was over. Brock needs to learn how to fight submission fighhts. Mirs is well known as a submission artist. Brock was dumb.

 

Ummmm actually not. In a Street Fight Tanks fat ass would've been caught in a submission again and he would have had his pathetic life choked completely out of him, or his arm broken in half and then he would've been beat to death. :good

 

The twisting of the foot to make your opponent tap out was as scientific as any boxing move. You try twisting a 280lb+ man with explosive strength and championship wrestling background foot to make him submit. Your point is m00t.

 

I agree. In a street fight Mir gets stomped out in that position. That's illegal in MMA so Mir got an ankle lock.

That being said... MMA has its moments. For the most part though, there is too much wrestling/grappling for my taste.

There should be something, a timelimit, or something the referee can look for where he just stands the guys up again. I think they leave it on the ground too long sometimes. If the submission doesn't happen, don't let them sit on the ground for 3 minutes doing practically nothing. Stand them up, and force all fighters to be more versatile. Just my honest opinion.

 

No way. How many highly traineed grapplers have you fought? Mir would have broke the mother ****ers leg off. That is what grapplers do.

 

moved to the MMA forum