ufc is a well managed business. Boxing is a decaying sport which is ready to be exploited by any competitor like ufc. It could be true, boxing may not have any superstars in the future.
Just watched the video. Lou is 100% right. The MMA guy really DOESN'T get it. He keeps going on about how it's better because it's real fighting and boxing is just one small part of fighting. WHO CARES! Boxing isn't trying to be real fighting. It has some of the skill that might be used in a fight, but so does track & field (stamina). So does table tennis (reflexes). But like boxing, they aren't pretending to be like real fights like UFC is. UFC has rules. It has timed rounds. It has a controlled space, padded mat and a referee. THERFORE IT ISN'T REAL FIGHTING EITHER! It might be closer than boxing, but again - so what? How much like a fight a sport is isn't the yardstick to how "good" it is, except for ******ed frat-boys and rednecks. :roll:
Whatever. I heard the same arguments 20 years ago when WWF started gaining popularity. Boxing just had one of it's biggest, best and most financially successful years in history. "Fans" like you might disappear, but the sport is going nowhere. :deal
i'd like to go in the 'boxing' ring with that joe guy. floyd appeared more intelligent than the ufc bum - more articulate and as for the lou compared to that annoying joe guy representing ufc.
Personnaly, I think UFC appeals to the more simple crowd. Boxing isn't getting swalloed at all, it's just that UFC is the Wal-MArt of combat sports. The UFC takes mediocre fighters and makes them superstars, because they can. You don't have to be technicly sound to be a champion, you can be an average "tough guy" and walk through just about anyone in a cage. In order to be an elite boxer, you have to be much more skilled. You don't see bums on boxing PPV, but you see average Joe's on every UFC PPV.
A few people made lots of money in 2007. So what? At the club level nearly everybody is starving. The future begins at the club level, and few if any will enter a starving sport.
hah hah. boxers have been struggling at club level over the last 100 + years - it's no new thing. the hungrier the fighter, the more inspired they are to go on and become a champ. mma is as toilet as wwf wrestling with those unskilled steroid abusing 'tough men'. this is an example of what happens to boxing v MMA/K1/UFC when they're not stopping opponents by pulling their legs the wrong way or choking them for tap outs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69przctOkLs
Boxing is a sport .. UFC is a practition into 1 on 1 hand to hand combat .. I feel UFC has a broader range of what hand to hand combat is all about .. but I disagree with Rogan when he says ufc is closer to street fighting, both boxing and ufc are far from street fighting as you can get. In street fight going to the ground is the last place you want to be, because you never know who going to stomp , kick or even stab you, but both sport are well suited for what they do best inside the ring . Also I have to give props to UFC for breaking a lot of myth and theories of what actually works and what doesn't , in full contact combat.
