Yeah, did anyone else happen to catch Riddick Bowe\'s \'comeback\'? That was ridiculous, and, what\'s more, he won. Do you know how bad the other guy had to be to lose to Bowe, whose waist was broader than his shoulders? HAH! Bowe knows bad roadwork.
Anyway, GBeninati nailed a good point: the main reason kids think UFC is better is because of the current, sorry state of boxing, especially the heavyweight division. America has no recognizable icons to associate with boxing. Nobody is talented and marketable enough to rise above the normal action and become identified within the sport. Not in America, anyway.
As for the MMA, how preposterous can you get? Mixing fighting styles is just a fast and easy way to free-style an artform that is, in it\'s purest state, more complex and difficult. And has everyone forgot that most martial arts are not practical at all in a real fight, much less boxing?? Even the people who practice them admit that; the benefits of these disiplines are, by their very nature, mostly mental, especially in the forms available in the U.S, which are watered-down to the point where they can barely be called martial anything.
Also, "...seeing a dude take a not well-rounded fighter to the ground and pounding the shit out of his face or making him tap out isn\'t pussy its pretty smart..." ? It\'s pretty ridiculous, and completely unnessecary. We\'re also referring to them inflicting this spectacle on some relatively average guy (yes, most UFC fighters aren\'t specially skilled or talented) who may or may not have an above-average pain tolerance. If you pit any one of them against a conditioned boxing athlete from ANY professional boxing weight class, that\'s it. No pithy one-liner, no decent takedown: just a two-second ordeal. You may as well pit the boxer against a football player with an extra tattoo.
Also, World Class? Throwing a name or two around, a la Gracie and Couture, doesn\'t make a sport "world class." So what if less-than-a-handful of decent, gentlemen fighters are found in league with 99% of blithering steroid-pinching boys? Hump Fest, Indeed.
Anyway, GBeninati nailed a good point: the main reason kids think UFC is better is because of the current, sorry state of boxing, especially the heavyweight division. America has no recognizable icons to associate with boxing. Nobody is talented and marketable enough to rise above the normal action and become identified within the sport. Not in America, anyway.
As for the MMA, how preposterous can you get? Mixing fighting styles is just a fast and easy way to free-style an artform that is, in it\'s purest state, more complex and difficult. And has everyone forgot that most martial arts are not practical at all in a real fight, much less boxing?? Even the people who practice them admit that; the benefits of these disiplines are, by their very nature, mostly mental, especially in the forms available in the U.S, which are watered-down to the point where they can barely be called martial anything.
Also, "...seeing a dude take a not well-rounded fighter to the ground and pounding the shit out of his face or making him tap out isn\'t pussy its pretty smart..." ? It\'s pretty ridiculous, and completely unnessecary. We\'re also referring to them inflicting this spectacle on some relatively average guy (yes, most UFC fighters aren\'t specially skilled or talented) who may or may not have an above-average pain tolerance. If you pit any one of them against a conditioned boxing athlete from ANY professional boxing weight class, that\'s it. No pithy one-liner, no decent takedown: just a two-second ordeal. You may as well pit the boxer against a football player with an extra tattoo.
Also, World Class? Throwing a name or two around, a la Gracie and Couture, doesn\'t make a sport "world class." So what if less-than-a-handful of decent, gentlemen fighters are found in league with 99% of blithering steroid-pinching boys? Hump Fest, Indeed.