Excellent observation. Deep down, I think UFC fans know that this crap can't hold a candle to the sweet science, so they have to trash a superior sport with an actual history, which involves excitement and action, not boring rolling around on the ground.
UFC screws their fighters over on money big time. They don't make nearly enough. Boxers can make the money easier if they become liked, like Cotto, who was making as much if not more then rampage in hid debut HBO fights. But it's harder for a UFC fighter to come back after a loss. I mean Chuck Liddell was the LHW champ and Dana White is like, IDK when Chuck will get a rematch. Usually champs get an immediate rematch.
to be fair boxing can have som eguys who hug for a living so you never know.:think i wouldnt mind mma i love k-1 and pride is decent but ufc just bores me it just seems to me they stay further than arms length away form there opponants and throws a snap kick or a quick jab and stay away so you dont get hit then when they do comeforeward they seem to throw somthing .duno what it is just a fluke punch/elbow/knee som big action. then wham they are on the floor for a while having this "rough gay sex" and then hit each other on the floor. then when they break up they repeat. in hindsight boxing matches can be just as boring but the ecitement in boxing is that the men are a puzzle both men are trying to unsolve using a jab and fuents and small details like moving on the outside of the opponents foot. all these little knooks and cranny's. where as ufc just seems to be a waiting game not a tactic game of chees but a game of chance and the luckiest ones are usually guys who are bigger or use slipping punches and basci boxing techniques. also it's a generation of pro wrestling fans have grown into it. tons of pro wreslters have fought in ufc and done damn good just ask bob sapp 300 pounds of useless muscle and win becuase he is...a beast there was a ufc advert actually saying somthing like no rules no SCRIPTS no mercy !! it's stealing the fans of wrestling perfectly by rivalries and story line stuff that boxing doesnt go by. wasnt it kevin randalman who was saying one of us is getting knocked the **** out against crocop and he did so and there was a big hype machine in that both men wanted to kill each other in a street fight. now when boxers do that...we know they are in it for the money they want as much hype as possible to make as much sales as possible.
i dont mind it it's friendly rivalry we will never convince that mma is dry humpin and that boxing is dead k-1 on a boxing card or vica versa i wouldnt mind. we shouldnt make war we should make babies
Again, just shows what a stupid **** you have to be to not like both sports. Who are these "tons" of pro wrestlers who have fought in the UFC, hell, name one? Bob Sapp has never fought in the UFC, and he has gotten beat by every legit MMA fighter he has ever fought.
The further back in time you go, the more MMA and boxing start to look the same. Both came from common roots--Medieval wrestling--and radiated outward from there. Same family and genus.
Boxing isnt dead you would have to a dumbass to think that, the Mayweather/Delahoya fight alone grossed record numbers this year and there are more great fights to come. My feelings on MMA is theres alot of guys fighting there that punch as hard as I did at 13 its almost comical to watch, and the ones that supposely hit hard throw the most looping punches my 80 yearold grandma can see them coming. I do think alot of the fighters have great takedown techniques and submissions I would never see coming, but most of there fighter punching abilities equivalent to a guy who had 10 or so beers in a bar and thinks he could still fight. I refuse to watch ufc until they change there weak boxing ability.
You definitely have your exceptions, Im just speaking out against the majority of the ufc fighters. Trust me there other skills and wrestling ability our nothing to **** with I grant you that, but to be honest I would outwork alot of them in a boxing match at my wieght. Now if it was a ufc fight I would more in likely get my ass handing to me and put into a submission move I never seen coming.