Benevolent One
Team Owner
Is anybody else in here an MMA fan?
I'm a pretty big Mixed Martial Arts fan. I didn't like the whole idea of it at first. I'm a real long time boxing fan and thought that MMA was a cheap immitation and a gimic that would die out. I was wrong.
My biggest problem was comparing MMA and boxing. They really are a whole different thing. MMA is much less predictable. Because the gloves are so much smaller, there is a lot more knockout potential. Submissions can happen just about any time someone is on the ground. There is a lot more strategy involved also. When to stand up and when to try to get your opponent to the ground, how to neutralize and counter what your opponent is trying to do, and how to set your opponent up are just a few examples.
Perhaps my favorite thing though is that there is no Floyd Mayweather Jr type of ducking anybody going on. In the UFC, MMA's biggest organization by far, if Floyd didn't want to fight somebody like Pacquiao, Dana White (UFC President) would have said "either fight him or you lose your belt".
I still like boxing, but there just isn't nearly enough good fighters meeting in their prime any more. Mayweather-Pacquiao 5 years or so ago would have been a great fight. But Floyd was simply afraid to fight him. He was more concerned about keeping his undefeated record than in proving himself. At this point, I think his ducking Manny did more to damage his legacy than actually fighting him and losing would have done.
The 80's were when boxing was at it's best in my opinion. You had, in no particular order, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and others who fought each other on a fairly regular basis.
Is anybody else in here a fan? If so, why? If not, why not?
I'm a pretty big Mixed Martial Arts fan. I didn't like the whole idea of it at first. I'm a real long time boxing fan and thought that MMA was a cheap immitation and a gimic that would die out. I was wrong.
My biggest problem was comparing MMA and boxing. They really are a whole different thing. MMA is much less predictable. Because the gloves are so much smaller, there is a lot more knockout potential. Submissions can happen just about any time someone is on the ground. There is a lot more strategy involved also. When to stand up and when to try to get your opponent to the ground, how to neutralize and counter what your opponent is trying to do, and how to set your opponent up are just a few examples.
Perhaps my favorite thing though is that there is no Floyd Mayweather Jr type of ducking anybody going on. In the UFC, MMA's biggest organization by far, if Floyd didn't want to fight somebody like Pacquiao, Dana White (UFC President) would have said "either fight him or you lose your belt".
I still like boxing, but there just isn't nearly enough good fighters meeting in their prime any more. Mayweather-Pacquiao 5 years or so ago would have been a great fight. But Floyd was simply afraid to fight him. He was more concerned about keeping his undefeated record than in proving himself. At this point, I think his ducking Manny did more to damage his legacy than actually fighting him and losing would have done.
The 80's were when boxing was at it's best in my opinion. You had, in no particular order, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and others who fought each other on a fairly regular basis.
Is anybody else in here a fan? If so, why? If not, why not?