Classic boxing is governed by Marques de Queensbury rules. No standard rules have been published for MMA. I feel like a stranger with no rules to follow if this MMA is "sport"!
#1 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:29 PM EDTboxing is only a sport, its only one aspect of fighting. most real fights end up on the ground, and a boxer would be lost there. mma fighters are all well rounded with boxing, muay thai, wrestling, judo and jiu-jitsu so you never know where the fight will go, and you aren't gonna get bored as easily. anything can happen at any time, a knock out, a submission, a tko, or a ref stoppage. mma is much more entertaining, and the fighters are real fighters, not just boxers.
#2 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:31 PM EDTI am a female MMA fighter. To someone who does mixed martial arts, its almost amusing that people think that boxing is more of an art than MMA. We use not only our fists, but every part of our body during a fight. In any given MMA bout, a fighter will use his or her elbows, forearms, knees, chins, knuckles, things and shins. Until you have preformed a perfectly executed arm bar or brought your opponent to their knees with a single shinkick to the ribs/kidneys you wouldn't understand the skill or precision needed to preform our form of art.
#3 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:37 PM EDTWell, I agree that MMA is an art. No question about it. I do have a few years training in Martial Arts, including Thai Boxing, so I know there is plenty of technique to be respected. It's a legitimate sport, no doubt about it. But as a former boxer, I also believe that many MMA fans underestimate the science and skills of professional boxing. I have to admit that many MMA figthers I see on television still muscle or push their punches and throw them too wide. A pro boxer may not be able to last long in the MMA ring; but on the flip side, I don't think too many MMA fighters could make it against top pro boxers in their sport, either. Some of these guys have blinding hand speed (though they have much heavier gloves than MMA fighters), and their punching combinations are much more crisp and sharp. I think both sports should respect each other.
i was a real fan of boxing at first and after a few fights that i thought were rigged i really lost interest, i have been watching MMA for a few years now and i think that they are more authentic then boxing now and i hope boxing can redeem its self because it is skilled profession and i miss the real fighters of the ole days
#4 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:02 PM EDTPPV has forced me out of my house and to the local sports bar that offers UFC's for free. There is a sense of community within the world of MMA that boxing doesn't even come close to watching. While Mayweather touches on race, I think he off the mark as MMA being a place for whites to ply their trade. Everyone knows that some of the best MMA fighters in the world come from Brazil, Japan, Mexico, etc. Russia and Europe have also been well represented and you even see more and more fighters from the UK getting involved. MMA is international, while boxing remains an indigenous sport.
#5 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:22 PM EDTMMA is an artform, you are correct. I am a woman who loves to watch MMA, for the amazing sport of it, and the art. It is a sport I never thought I would like, but once I watched a couple of fights I was hooked. I am impressed by the respect and sportman/woman like conduct that these fighters possess and express. I no longer watch boxing due to the lack of respect and common courtesy that fighters show the once a year when they fight. The sport of boxing is dead to me. Keep fighting the good fight, MMA style!
#6 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:25 PM EDTI think there is room for both boxing and mma styles. But when it comes down to the business of it all...Boxing is the better revenue generator. One fight can bring in hundreds of millions and the fighters get more money for all the punishment they take. MMA fighters take equal amount of punishment but aren't compensated equally compared to boxing. I know it's not about the money, but as a fighter you have to protect your interests or get taken advantage of.....i.e. "mike tyson and several others"
#7 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:33 PM EDTI have always been told in my martial arts training that American's are headhunters. We have some kind of obsession with pounding somone's head in with our hands. For those people that say boxing is a an, I agree, boxing is in fact an art, a martial art. If you take a boxer, and teach him how to use his feet, then you have a Mixed Martial Artist. In my opinion, boxing is 2 dimensional, while MMA is 3 dimensional. Don't get me wrong, boxing is a great sport, but MMA in my opinion is what happens when you take boxing one step farther.
I wrestled in college and I have also trained in the martial arts for 18 years. I have competed with both, and both require skill to compete with. Incorporating the two of these together, I have competed on the amatuer level in MMA. By saying that MMA does not require skill, is essentially saying that all martial arts (boxing included) require no skill.
What would a boxer do if he were taken down to the ground and put in a leg bar? Punch his opponent? Not hardly. I'd like to see Mayweather fight any UFC heavyweight champion. Win or lose, I bet he would have a new found respect for the sport.
#8 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:36 PM EDTMMA provides several exciting games per an event. In MMA, same boring technique or one discipline can't make the fighter a winner, which means success in MMA requires continuing evolution from the fighters. It makes everything different.
#9 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:10 PM EDTThe reason for this poll is simple. Boxing is dying, not as a sport but as a business. I am a huge boxing fan, and I'm eager to watch Marquez try to knock Mayweather's head into next week, however I'm going to buy the UFC paperview instead.
For one, Mayweather can sell tickets but his style doesn't excite me. This is one of the reason Boxing is dying. If Mayweather doesn't excite me I don't buy the show, however in MMA where events have five or six fights on Payperview I can still buy it if I don't like three or four of the fighters fighting..
Also, the multifaceted nature of MMA fights makes it more exciting as well. As an amatuer fighter, the sheer number of factors that goes into an MMA fight crushes boxing. So many variables means one fight has 1000 different outcomes, which is what a hardcore fan loves. Will he get the sub? Will he be TKO'd? Head kick? GnP? The sheer number of ways a fight can end constantly keeps fans guessing and watching on the edge of their seats.
For the casual fans, to whom KOs are spectacular to watch, they get that more with MMA since the gloves are small that literally any one can knock anyone else out at any moment. For Pro Wrestling fans, they can get their fill of thundering slams and excting matwork. Simply put, MMA is just more exciting than Boxing.
The days of Boxing as the king of combat sports are over. Enter Mixed Martial Arts which is constantly growing and evolving. That being said, I will be sure to catch a replay of Mayweather vs Marquez, after I get my fill of raw excitement from UFC 103.
#10 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:24 PM EDTI love a good boxing match, but MMA is just so much more complex. Don't get me wrong, boxing will always be the "sweet science" but MMA is the true pinnacle of fight sports.
#11 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:30 PM EDTI agree with others above, MMA is a fight, where boxing seems more sport-ish. We in society today like to see a good fight... I remember the first time I saw an actual street fight and the rush i got watching it...that is how i felt watching MMA for the first time also...
#13 - Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:05 PM EDTAs a former amateur boxer, I love the science of boxing. But it's being ruined by overpriced pay-per-view television, crappy undercards, ridiculous promoting, and bad politics, where so many fighters pad up their records against no-names and dodge each other. The public doesn't want to wait until two fighters are past their primes, when they finally meet. Also, there are too many world champions, too many organizations, and too many weight classes. There was a time when there was only one world champion for each weight class ( I think it was eight total). I'm not a big fan of MMA, but I do like the fact that the best fighters don't waste any time meeting each other. Unfortunately, one has to wonder if MMA wouldn't turn to the same tactics, if million$ were on the line for each fighter. For now, I hope it continues to give pro boxing stiff competition, so that something can change.
#14 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:22 AM EDTI love Boxing. Boxing is the best, but MMA is comming on strong. The thing I don't like about MMA is it don't have any style. The fights are so crazy with no style and it is a perfect fit for a white fighter. They had to find something for them because Boxing is Dominated so much by Latino and Blacks, and everyone knows wrestling is fake. So they had to find them a sport. Beware, the Blacks and Latino's will dominate this one too in a while, just give them time to catch on. Watching Blood Sport started this off and I saw it comming, but none of the fights is like they are on Blood Sport. They try there best but naaaaw. It seems to much like uncontrolled fighting and uncontrolled fights have no style.
#15 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:34 AM EDTUncontrolled fighting for white people?? Wow some people and their ignorance still amazes me. Only 1 champion in UFC is a white american, then you have a canadian, Hawaiian, japanese/brazilian and another full brazilian. So can that racist sh*t. Facts remain boxers duck each other and pad their records all the time, no one wants to pay PPV prices to watch a 1 sided match or 2 guys hug for 12 rounds. And if you knew a single thing about MMA then you wouldnt think of it as uncontrolled fighting by any means.
Realistically people you like whatever you like, I think golf is boring but some people enjoy it, thats fine and it is what it is. You like your boxing, I like the more evolved and technical fighting of UFC. To each their own but give it a rest with the "boxing is better" bullsh!t. MMA doesnt NEED to compete with boxing, all boxing has is a mouthy little guy named Mayweather who makes himself look more like a douche everytime he opens his mouth, But when Dana White sent him a contract in 07' to back up his mouth he wouldnt come fight the then UFC champ Sean Sherk. personally to me thats some little girl sh!t right there. Dont run your mouth like your somebody and then dont back it up. Good thing hes a boxers or real men would kick his ass on the regular.
I love Boxing. Boxing is the best, but MMA is comming on strong. The thing I don't like about MMA is it don't have any style. The fights are so crazy with no style and it is a perfect fit for a white fighter. They had to find something for them because Boxing is Dominated so much by Latino and Blacks, and everyone knows wrestling is fake. So they had to find them a sport. Beware, the Blacks and Latino's will dominate this one too in a while, just give them time to catch on. Watching Blood Sport started this off and I saw it comming, but none of the fights is like they are on Blood Sport. They try there best but naaaaw. It seems to much like uncontrolled fighting and uncontrolled fights have no style.
#16 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:48 AM EDTI think there are more whites on this site. The blacks are out playing Football or practicing football and just don't have time to get on this site. Go to a Football field and ask the same question and see the differance in the answers. I did. BOXING!!!!!!! MMA is pretty good though.
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if you were in a real fight would you only use your fists, i think mma is a lot cooler and more of a "fight"