Boxers vs wrestlers. An old debate. Contrary to popular opinion so called mixed martial arts isn't a new thing gifted to us by the Zuffa gods,...
Yeah, there is no such thing as a combat sport because 90% of the things people put in that box have nothing to do with combat. Wrestlers do not...
How? If a good lawyer wins a case by putting the judge and jury in his pocket he's disbarred for life, it doesn't matter how good he was in the...
Two words. Electronic scoring.
Subjective? Duh... Do you read before you type? This is a thread about unpopular MMA opinions. I'm not preaching anti-MMA bias, I'm voicing an...
Nope, I said transcend the sport not transcend the country. Fedor hasn't done that, only the combat sports crowd know who he is and while that...
Steele showed a lot of guts stopping the first Chavez Taylor fight. He knew it'd be an unpopular decision but he did it anyway, he did his job in...
So? I never said you had to have a global following to be great, I only said you have to transcend your sport. So far, no phenomenal MMA fighter...
When did I ever say it had to be global? All I said was that a great athlete is someone who is both the best of their era and a folk hero, a...
That's why there haven't been any so far. It's a matter of time. MMA right now is where football or basketball was in the late 40s or boxing in...
I don't buy the argument that if it wasn't for the Fertitas that MMA would not have grown. Sure, it would have taken a different path and grown...
Joshua is right, but he has to understand where Lennox is coming from. AJ's side have repeatedly stalled negotiations for a fight with Wilder, his...
Bowe has a good chance, he was a beast in his prime. He'd be a tough opponent for Larry. I don't know who'd win. I'd want Holmes to win, but hey...
I never said it wasn't subjective this thread after all is about opinions. Sure, Cro Cop, Gracie and co. were some of the best fighters of their...
Global is a stretch, greatness is not just being the best in your sport but being a force outside it. Jim Brown was a great football player not...
