klunderbunker
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says that MMA is nowhere near as big as boxing. I want this guy's name.
An analyst on ESPN
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klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
I'll watch Pacquiao vs. Mayweather.
Little Jerry Lawler
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What does he look like?
Turd Ferguson
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Probably Skip Bayless.
I just watched that and that guy is clearly a ******ed troll.
"I'm not drinking the MMA kool-aid with those brain-dead knuckleheads, MMA will never be as good as boxing!"...
I guaran-fucking-tee you line up an MMA veteran with a boxing veteran, the boxing veteran is going to be about 12,000 times more braindead. Boxing is entirely about hitting your opponent in the face, MMA you take a few shots in the face in a fight and it's usually over. Guy clearly doesn't know anything about MMA.
Fucking trolls. Almost as bad as the guys on Around the Horn shitting on Mark Cuban for hosting Raw.
"I'm not drinking the MMA kool-aid with those brain-dead knuckleheads, MMA will never be as good as boxing!"...
I guaran-fucking-tee you line up an MMA veteran with a boxing veteran, the boxing veteran is going to be about 12,000 times more braindead. Boxing is entirely about hitting your opponent in the face, MMA you take a few shots in the face in a fight and it's usually over. Guy clearly doesn't know anything about MMA.
Fucking trolls. Almost as bad as the guys on Around the Horn shitting on Mark Cuban for hosting Raw.
Little Jerry Lawler
Sigmund Freud On Ritalin And Roids
Who are you talking about?
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
Mayweather gets 15 mil a fight, how much does GSP get?
Turd Ferguson
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Yeah, the guy's SI's beat writer for boxing.
He has a vested interest in the success of boxing. I take what he says with a grain of salt as far as MMA goes.
I thought Rome was actually pretty into MMA. He's done a few positive pieces in the past and I know he's had Dana on a few times.
He has a vested interest in the success of boxing. I take what he says with a grain of salt as far as MMA goes.
I thought Rome was actually pretty into MMA. He's done a few positive pieces in the past and I know he's had Dana on a few times.
Turd Ferguson
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Well, that's a whole other topic. MMA fighters as a whole have a much lower payscale. Even Brock, the company's top draw, only gets a base pay of $400,000 a fight.
Mayweather and Pacquiao are the two only proven draws boxing has. Everyone orders their fights. UFC 100 had 1.5 million buys. There are also more "names" in MMA than in boxing.
HEEL Blazy
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IDC for either tbh but I'd watch MMA before Boxing any day of the week.
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
So, you're telling me that the bigger sport pays it's top guy 1/30th of what boxing does?
Interesting.
MMA is mostly a joke to the older crowd. MMA will be bigger in the near future, but not until it's fan move out of mommy's house and boxing fans die off.
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
Ask a 40 year old man and I bet he names more boxers, and since he has money to buy the fight, I vote boxing.
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
Let me clarify my point. A big time boxing match, like Mayweather/Pacquiao will always garner more attention than the biggest MMA fight.
But how many times do "Big Time" boxing matches occur, and how many will be left to happen once Mayweather and Pacquiao are washed up? Paul Williams is really the only young REALLY good boxer left, and I don't think even he's going to be a draw. Too many people duck him (Mayweather's been ducking him for years now).
Anyway, I love boxing, perhaps as much as anyone here, but MMA is a better, more exciting, safer sport, hands down.
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
It is better and more exciting, but let me know when a fight not involving Kimbo gets anywhere close to the hype of Mayweather/Pacquiao.
Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir was all over the sports media when it happened, more so than Mayweather vs. Marquez and Pacquiao vs. Cotto.
That said....Mayweather vs. Pacquiao will be the biggest boxing bout since Tyson/Lewis, and right at this very moment there's nothing MMA can do to top it. But at the same time... there's nothing a movie like Up in the Air can do to beat New Moon at the box office, but surely Up in the Air is the better film, isn't it?
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
The standard for greatness in sports is different than the standard for greatness in film.
Shit, I prefer MMA, but it just isn't as big as boxing. Last time I checked, there was no MMA on ESPN, but Friday Night Fights is still shown. ESPN Classic is the boxing channel. MMA is awesome, but, to the people with money, boxing is bigger, and until they die, or something happens to convert then, it will be.
Shit, I prefer MMA, but it just isn't as big as boxing. Last time I checked, there was no MMA on ESPN, but Friday Night Fights is still shown. ESPN Classic is the boxing channel. MMA is awesome, but, to the people with money, boxing is bigger, and until they die, or something happens to convert then, it will be.
I completely understand what you're saying, but you have to admit that a few years from now, at the rate both sports are going, MMA will be a bigger sport than Boxing.
Right now it's hard to claim MMA is bigger than Boxing because there are two superstars left, and they are about to fight one another (IF they do fight; you never know what could happen), but once those guys are gone or start losing fights... what then, FTS?