I just had a quick glance on Bet365 and, out of the next 23 fights scheduled, only 2 can be deemed as even fights. The rest are 1/5 for one fighter and lower, with most being 1/16 and lower and quite a few 1/100. I'm not a fan of the UFC at all, but boxing is really missing a trick by not following their lead of matching the best with the best (I know there's not much that can be done about this as it stands). What they don't realise is that having a '0' really doesn't mean anything if you're just knocking over bums. Nobody cares.
Ufc any good fighter can't beat pretty much anyone in their weight class on any given night. With boxing that's very far from the case. The levels are too great with boxing and you can't simply win with being decent in one specific areas
MMA > Boxing. The best fight the best and they don't care. Take Conor McGregor - Highest paid, guns for the P4P no.1 Jose Aldo. Aldo pulls out, Conor fights CHAD MENDES who's a VERY GOOD fighter and a GREAT wrestler. Conor then takes on Aldo and wins in iconic fashion. He then fights Nate Diaz at 170lbs - Conor loses the advantages of having a naturally big guy cut considerable weight. Conor loses. He will continue. Holly Holm beats Rousey, immediately faces Meisha Tate and loses. She's going back to the gym and wants to fight Rousey AGAIN. Floyd Mayweather ruined the sport. People just want to protect hollow winning records and get paid for fighting cans. MMA is more entertaining, and it is HARDER than boxing. Boxing fans don't know a THING about MMA. You can't go in there and box like Ray Robinson or Mayweather, ground game as well as leg strikes are important, too. There's far more variables in MMA that require control. Hence why Greats lose far more frequently than they do in boxing.
The problem with boxing is 1.) There are too many MAJOR sanctioning bodies, WBA, WBC, WBO, IBF 2.) There are too many weight classes 17!! 3.) The WBA have made boxing a joke with their Super Belt, Regular Belt, Interim Belt Bull**** But every true boxing fan already knows this. This means that we currently have FIVE heavyweight champions in Deontay Wilder (WBC), Charles Martin (IBF), Tyson Fury (WBA Super, WBO, IBO, Lineal, Ring), Lucas Browne (WBA Regular) and Luis Ortiz (WBA Interim). FIVE heavyweight champions that have not even boxed each other yet. How can you be a champion when you haven't proved that you are the best? The fact that there is only 4 Ring champions in 17 divisions says it all really. The fact that the WBA have a totally different ranked top 10 than WBC in all divisions also says it all. Too many champions and the best do not fight the best. That is what is great about UFC and why it is becoming so popular. Undefeated records are BS, no one is fooling anyone anymore.
Mind you Inspector, You dont get odds of 42/1 for the outsider as for buster douglas. But the favourites are 1/100 lol the outsiders get 14/1. thats rubbish
Lmao holly holm and Nate Diaz won against the supposed best in the sport because they were superior boxers. Ronda rouseys judo was completely useless against a competent boxer like holm and people were trying to call her the best combat athlete in the world. You have bought into the UFC hype so hard. It's just another sport
When I used to watch the UFC, I'd hear that the best fought the best, but that's all just marketing and not the reality. Basically, because of the UFC's monopoly on mma in the US they can have their commentators spin things to reflect whatever they want the public to think. But they've had lots of missed matches and ducking throughout their short history, just like boxing. For instance, they never made Fedor vs Lesnar or Couture because Fedor wouldn't sign an exclusive multi-fight contract with the UFC and UFC wouldn't let Lesnar and Couture fight on another promotion and refused to co-promote. Then you have examples of guys moving to different weight classes to avoid fighting people like Machida moving up to avoid Silva. There was a lot of talk about GSP moving up to fight Silva which never happened. There were a bunch of others, but you get my point. What you have with the UFC isn't really the best fighting the best. Their competitive architecture may not even be sufficient to even tell who's the best and rank fighters accurately. What you have is the most hyped fighting the most hyped. And when one hyped up fighter loses, then that fighter either disappears and gets dropped from the promotion, never to be heard from again; or he's fed to a series of champs in no hope fights at different weight classes, like Chael Sonnen, losing over and over again because he's entertaining and fans like his big mouth trash talking style. Or take Nate Diaz, the guy has ten losses in a 29 fight career. He's not elite but he'll get thrown in with the elite because he's entertaining.
Boxing has pretty much always been many mismatches that lead to the occasional meaningful match. Nothing to cry about. Watch the fights you find appealing and ignore the rest.
Holm just got beat in case you missed it. Rousey got beat because she tried to box a boxer, which is an OBVIOUSLY bad idea. Just like if Holm tried to ground and pound vs a judoka. Anyways on topic, the fragmentation in boxing allows promoters/boxers to pad records and avoid high risk. Not much we can do about it except, not "buy" into those fights.