Any true boxing fans here?

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Im sure im in the minority but I would rather watch a bigtime boxing match over a UFC title fight any day of the week.

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Much much more of a boxing fan, while I dont know how to score a fight, or know the techniques, I find a good boxing match much more entertaining. I hope it will come back, but it looks like this next generation is more into MMA.

Boxing is pretty much down and out in today's age. MMA brings more excitement to viewers, More blood/quicker KOs. I enjoy both sports but in 12 years boxing will be a afterthought. I would imagine the biggest downfall of the sport tho is the corruptness of promoters. Everyone sticking their hand out wanting a piece of the pie has hurt the sport. The only two fights I could see taking boxing off life support would be Mayweather vs Pacquiao or if the Klitschko brother's would man up and fight.

No great American heavyweights, and greedy promoters/pay-per-view has led to the steady decline. It's a shame.

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I find MMA entertaining when they're standing but honestly I get bored when they're on the ground... I wouldnt mind seeing an upright version of that sport.

Any way, do you think boxing will ever make a comeback or has mma and poor organizational structure bascially ko'd boxing as we know/knew it?


Im sure im in the minority but I would rather watch a bigtime boxing match over a UFC title fight any day of the week.

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If you prefer boxing over MMA that's fine but you might wanna check out kickboxing. It's pretty much MMA fighting that doesn't go to the ground and they use bigger gloves. It's exciting to watch the problem is I just can never catch it on tv and kinda tough to keep up with.

I find it amusing that boxing fans are trying to defend their lame sport by talking about popularity. MMA fans shouldn't even bother having this discussion. If popularity was the best way to judge the virtue of something, WWE would be the best combat sport and Two and a Half Men would be the best TV show. The reason why boxing sucks is because it does an inferior job of simulating real life combat. The whole reason people got into boxing to begin with was because they wanted to know who the baddest men on the planet were. For many years, boxing was the only way of doing that. For those of us who want to know the answer to the question in 2011, MMA is now the way to go. Boxers would get annihilated by MMA fighters in a fight in a bar or a parking lot somewhere, and it's not even debatable.

Boxing is necessarily inferior to MMA because MMA full encompasses boxing as well as every other combat art (except maybe Krav Maga).

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I wouldnt mind seeing an upright version of that sport.

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forgot to mention, you should check out K1 (kickboxing) or even Muay Thai (don't know of any of their major organizations, but it's huge in Thailand and all over Asia).