Post little signs you notice that MMA is slowly beginning to replace boxing.

This is basically it right here.

Once more non-white athletes start to dominate the sport, it won't be very popular anymore and will lose it's appeal.

Most people that I know don't want to pay money to see two dudes look like their ****in on the ground and DEFINITELY won't pay money to a guy that will take his shirt off and WRESTLE HIM on the ground.

That **** is disgusting. Who would actually pay a man to get sweaty on the ground with him all because you're too scared to box?

 

I see your point, fair assesment. I feel like MMA's versatility may backfire on itself in this regard though. Only a few fighters have established divisional supremacy (perhaps because of the multiple ways one can lose), and none of them have really been heavyweights. The greats of MMA haven't drawn numbers even approaching the biggest Boxing ppv's or the level old-school network distribution worldwide in the past. Do you think the newer generations can significantly outdo Silva, Fedor, GSP, etc. in terms of quality and excitement? That seems too hard a task.

Boxing reached incredible heights in the early part of the 20th century, and its legends maintained that peak with an inheritance of the star power. From the days of Dempsey, Marciano, moving onto Liston, then Ali, then Tyson, and despite their historical lows, the Klitschkos are very famous in Europe; along with that trend is also of course the greats lower weights passing on the torch of fame from generation to generation; Robinson, Leonard & his partners in the Fab 4, the Latin American fighters from featherweight to lightweight, then the 90's era of De La Hoya, Mosley, and Roy Jones Jr., and of course Mayweather, Pacquiao and the 3 Amigos...

My point is that at its highest, boxing has always found a way to maintain those heights over time. While MMA is arguably growing in popularity, its historical peaks in quality don't correlate with heights in popularity comparable to those of boxing. If the sport can't get much better, how can it hope to unseat boxing in popularity? I suppose the next step would be to see which of the next generation of fighters emerges stronger, as well as the one after that, to see whether dips or spikes signify a short-term trend VS a long-term one of significantly divergent paths. As of now, it's early to tell, but MMA has the much bigger gap to close.

 

every boxing fight i watched in the last year was boring as hell
& lots of suspicious decisions

 

A little sign that MMA is growing - Bendo and Putarican have stopped visiting the Harry Potter forum and now devote their time to coming here and performing for the MMA forum.

 

mma isnt taking over ****.

if you actually go to bars and talk to adults youd know this.

we all play checkers as kids but when we grow up we play chess.

 

nah man mma is checkers lots of action lots of kings (knock outs)

boxing is about planning your apponets next 5 moves and countering them

boxing is chess mma is checkers.

 

you're a ****in idiot

 

wow, im stumped. good counter point, i never thought of it like that.

 

this is true

the baddest man on the planet was never traditionally associated as the hw champ, it emerged with mike tyson as far as i remember because he was such a bad mother****er, i dont recall lewis, rahman holyfield etc being labelled the baddest man on the planet, i think the ufc and rogan and goldberg use it as a ploy to try show mma is superior

 

the quote i can lick any sonofabitch in the house is often attributed to John L sullivan.

and i think thats where the baddest man on the planet idea comes from.

 

you are 100% wrong there my friend, that was john l's saying alright but the 2 are not linked