Doesn't seem to be a qhole lot going on in the MMA world lately.

MMA is boring me massively. In boxing there is news every day. In MMA, it is hard to find much exciting information. UFC do a bill a month at best, sometimes they go longer so you lose interest. With MMA, I'm trying to stay fufilled by reading about **** like Lashley v Sapp!!!

Boxing has me hyped at the moment. Now I'm looking forward to Haye v Wlad and Khan v Kotelnik and those are only for the British fighters I support.

 

Also, boxing advertises Pac as the P4P king. UFC advertise Silva as the P4P king. Compare the performances. UFC got me excited about Silva wanting to right the wrong of his last performance and then he bores us. Pacman put us in awe.

I think UFC 100 should be good. Henderson, Lesnar, GSP etc These guys entertain me.

 

Its not just the peformance its the fans. By and large boxing fans are VERY supportive and know whats going on. UFC fans havent got a clue and are just a bunch of frat boys eager to see blood. The problem is the UFC has a monopoly on MMA. Its seen as the face of MMA and frankly in my opinion it doesnt do a good job.

 

Frankly it's a good thing your opinion doesn't mean much....and frat boys??? I thought it was only rednecks??

 

O i know what this is! The law according to Ajax!

One minute.....


GSP GSP GSP!

We cool now? :good

 

Yeah We cool......I miss Pride...:yep

 

:good

 

I'm just suprised the poster doesn't have blood splatter and gladiator pictures on it.

 

I'd agree with that.

Boxing fans will love up Hopkins v Pavlik. I'm not so sure if MMA/UFC fans would love up a technical decision win.

 

The blood irritates me. Boxing could never get away with that. UFC can put blood wherever they like.

 

I've been watching MMA sine UFC 1. Right now I just don't have a huge amount of interest in the UFC. Ever since Pride folded it has gone down hill. The other faction added drama and made people compare and debate superiority. Dana has accomplished what was considered impossible at one time but at what cost?. I don't know what the future of MMA holds but it may need a reboot.

 

When the UFC bought PRIDE everyone raved and said "well get the big matches we want to see". Very little has come of that as the UFC took the best fighters and tossed the rest to the wind. They simply didnt care. I would have preferred if they kept both franchises seperate and marketed them against each other. Competition is ALWAYS good for ANY industry.

PRIDE simply had a very diffrent and more traditional approach to Martial Arts that i guess was more for the connoisseurs fans of MMA. There was a time when all i wanted to do was watch MMA and wait for thg big shows. Now i have very little interest and the UFC events just dont interest me at all. I said from the beginning UFC buying PRIDE wasnt good for the sport and i still think im right.

 

I think you are right as well. I thought we would have some big time matches but the UFC Pride bit fizzled out. I think the biggest black eye has to be Fedore not in the UFC and the way Dana handles the situation. His true dictator colors came out from this.

 

Dana does what is BEST for the UFC. Not whats good for MMA. He's not interested in cross promotions. He's not interested in working with any other orgs. He wants ALL options on a fighter when they fight for the UFC. And as a whole i think his product is crap. UFC fans have as much depth as a bird bath. All they want to see is blood and there simply not interested in Martial Arts or the finer points of this sport hence all the boo'ing as soon as there not entertained.

He brings in guys like Lesnar who are well known for there brash arrogance. So when we see guys like Silva and Franklin who show so much respect to each other it seems almost odd to behold. In PRIDE the fighters had so much respect for each other and the fans and would bow and the traditional MA way. There just doesnt seem to be that camaraderie in the UFC espcially in TUF. Hardly surprising when there all fighting for peanuts.

 

Just like the audition of Junie Browning's little bro. They bring people on who will garner the most attention not based on skills but personality. There really isn't a match-up at the moment that would really pull me back either.

On the other hand boxing is booming. I had so many people discuss the Pac/Hatton fight. It was really nice to see Boxing back on the casual fan's brain.

I am a fan of both sports but MMA is not drawing me in like Boxing.