Boxing Vs. MMA

[Guru-In-Vegas]

I had this "debate" with Bsmooth months back.  I love both sports.  I gotta say though I'd much rather watch a GOOD boxing match than a GOOD MMA match.  However, a BORING MMA match is WAAAAY better than a BORING boxing match.  I hope you guys like the caps by the way. 

I guess it's just prefference and even though I feel like a good amount of skill is needed in both, I prefer stand up boxing better.  Don't get me wrong, I think grappling and even jiu jitsu is awesome but there is just something about boxing.  Maybe it's because I grew up watching it?

 I watched Juan Diaz box Marquez this past weekend and it was fantastic.  A lot of heart and a lot of action.  I hope the sport doesn't fade away.  I know how boxing has always been plagued with corruption but whose to say MMA doesn't suffer from the same? 

Which sport do you guys prefer?

[Sunstroke]

I'm an old school boxing fan... Dad won golden gloves at 175 out of brooklyn three years in a row growing up, and later coached the PAL boxing team in our town. If there was a good fight on TV, it was a major event at our house. I haven't gotten into MMA yet, and am still in mourning over the death of the heavyweight division in boxing, so my viewing lately has been pretty sporadic.

[StL FinFan]

I never could get into MMA.  It just does not sit right with me to pummel someone while they are down on the mat.  I have kind of given up on boxing, too, since any halfway decent fight is pay-per-view nowadays.

[bsfins]

I'm a heavywieght boxing fan..unfortunately that's nothing to brag about...

[Phishfan]

I like boxing, but think the heavyweights are way overrated. You guys need to watch the lighter divisions. They actually throw punches and look like boxers rather than wrestling bears.

That said I like MMA, but don't watch most of it. I am old enough to remember when PPV was the only way you saw a MMA fight. Royce Gracie was the most boring fighter I have ever seen in my life.

[Dave Gray]

I definitely prefer MMA over boxing.  I don't like boxing's scoring system.  Perhaps it's corruption, but I've watch many, many boxing matches in my life where the winner of the match lost the fight.  He scored more points by landing the most weak jabs, while he got his ass kick in a traditional sense.

With MMA, once in a while you'll see a fight get stopped where it maybe could've continued, but that's about as bad as I've seen it.  I've never watched an MMA fight and felt that it was rigged.

[Sunstroke]

I've never watched an MMA fight and felt that it was rigged.

Probably because the sport is young... Give man a little time, and he can corrupt anything.

[Dave Gray]

^^

Sure.  It could happen.  But when one guy is on the ground knocked-out, getting his face get punched in, you remove the "judges" aspect of corruption.  You'd have to corrupt the fighters and get them to take a dive.

[bsmooth]

Probably because the sport is young... Give man a little time, and he can corrupt anything.

If the purses get into the multi million dollar range like they are for boxing at its heyday, then you will see a lot more corruption enter MMA

[MaineDolFan]

I don't watch either.  I would rather participate in MMA style fighting rather than boxing.  My hand speed and power have gotten better but my footwork and wrestling is what keeps me in matches with guys.  The rare time I box I usually get my bell rung pretty decently.