Do you think that one day this MMA crap will take the place of boxing?

Question

It seems thats what people go for nowadays and thats what all of the fighters want to go into. If you ask me it takes more work to become a boxer. All of todays great fighters are getting old and theres no one to fill the gap after the great boxers leave. Also it seems that all of the sports marketeers want to give the publicity to the MMA stuff. I like some UFC but i believe one day its gonna get old and there won't be any real fighters left to box.

Answer 1

As a lifetime martial artist, I am personally insulted that "exhibition" known as MMA actually has the nerve to refer to itself as martial arts. I actually blame it's very origin on late night video rentals of the Van Damme movie "Blood Sport" by kids growing up in the 90's. Most of those kids were also playing the Sega game "Mortal Combat" in thier parents basement.........I would compare MMA to GRUNDGE MUSIC. MANY PEOPLE once thought that Grundge would be an enlightening artistic forum that would "live on forever".......but, it ended up being a TRENDY FAD........So too will be the fate of MMA which IS NOT REAL MARTIAL ARTS......It is merely, out of shape "tough man" competitors who at one point in thier lives "took a karate class", but now just eat and occasionally lift weights. One day, comedy parodies will look back on the "era" of MMA and have a field day. The day will come when MMA along with "reality shows" and CSI programs are catagorized as the "fads" of the "First Decade of the new Millenium"



BOXING HAS THRIVED FOR WELL OVER A CENTURY! NOTHING will ever take the true place of boxing. Like the great George Foreman once said "Boxing is the Grand Daddy of ALL sports! There wouldn't even be ping pong without boxing".



Well said George. xo

Answer 2

Boxing is in real trouble. They don't have an exciting heavy weight division and haven't going back to days of Riddick Bowe (Lennox Lewis fans may push that date forward a few years, but the point is still valid).



So, they now rely on the lower weight classes and a Latino audience. This is a growing demographic, but until we get some giant Latino fighters it just won't sell to the public as a whole .



Purists love the skilled fighting. The masses want knockouts. Heavy weights give knockouts and without a compelling heavy weight division you don't have mass public appeal. Not long ago being heavy weight champ made you a world wide celebrity. Today, how many people of the street could even name him?



I don't know what the problem is.



MMA seems to be where all the excitement is, but boxing shouldn't be counted out yet. I have to admit though, it's getting pretty pathetic.



Good question. I'm going pose another check the board.

Answer 3

I do believe that boxing is here to stay. Although there may be a softening of audience attendance in boxing, but the core following would always be there. In other words, boxing and MMA could exist together. Take the case of sumo wrestling in Japan. While it's true that its attendance has somewhat lessened, yet sumo is still very popular in Japan and for that matter for the rest of the world. The core followers of sumo would always be there, as the core followers of boxing would always be there. Look at K-1, it is always there, and even the entertainment section of the WWE, RAW, TNA and other sports. No, I do not believe that boxing would be replaced by MMA, rather they will go together and making some money in the box office.



As the saying goes, "The more the merrier.!"

Answer 4

Boxing is never going to be what it once was. I've come to grips with that. Back around WWII era, even post WWII era, in the USA, you have basically three sports (in terms of popularity): Baseball, Boxing, and Horse Racing. Unfortunately Boxing is really relegated so horse racing's "main event" only status to mainstream America.



With that said, I think the UFC will also never become mainstream. It's found it's niche and it has a large fan base. Larger than boxing at the moment. UFC will never go mainstream, as to the casual fan, it will always be boring. A fan realizes the skills that MMA fighters have, and appreciate the subtle nuances of the sport (as do boxing fans of their sport), however, that just is boring to Joe Remote Control casual fan.



With all that said, neither will ever be mainstream (boxing once being), however, both sports have a certain beauty to each. Cheers.

Answer 5

I personally do MMA, but I like to watch boxing better especially good boxers like Pacquiao.

I'd hate to pay $50 UFC PPV only to have the fight stopped in the first round by submission.



To answer your question, I think more people take up MMA because it teaches them very effective self defense on the street. Boxing is great for self defense too but MMA prepares you to defend against kicks and chokes additionally. So with more people taking up MMA, majority of the talent is there. Its too bad cause' to watch a skilled boxer fight is just beautiful.

Answer 6

i usually dont like answering these kinda questions cause i could go ALL DAY explaining to u why boxing is better then mma, but i will tell u this. In a couple of years boxing will be back on top with great fighters, either no or cheap ppv's, less weight classes, and only 1 or 2 champs per weightclass. We just all have to pray and hope this happens and if god hears us, he'll make it happen.

Answer 7

No, but I do think you will see MMA become way more popular. Boxing will not die not for a long time, if ever. There is still a huge fan base for boxers. MMA has become so popular because there is a lot of action, and not as many rules. Plus you can kick, punch, use elbows, pretty much do anything except hit the back of the head and or the groin. Other than that it's an all out battle. And they use tiny little gloves that don't cover almost anything. It's ruthless. Boxing is dull and time consuming, and lacks the energy of "mixed martial arts."

Answer 8

I hate this question, dammit no, Boxing will forever live, NEVER compare Boxing to MMA two different sports, and with time we will have better boxers, thats all that matters, thats what make things so interesting, i bet a few months back couple people didnt even know the name Antonio Margarito ehh, but now he's the king pin and now people are do u know .... get it, got it, right

Answer 9

Unfortunately this prima donna street fight is going to take the place of it. You can blame the lack of American boxing talent in the past ten years, that and the fact that local fighting circuits will let anyone fight. I think MMA has kind of peaked, but that it won't fall from here, because at least they are drawing fans from the WWE not boxing fans. Because its wrestling fans tuning in to see people roll around on the ground, not boxing fans who actually want to see a fight that has actual strategy through rounds. You gotta give it to MMA that you can see your favorite fighter go four to eight times a year, where as in the top ranks of boxing four matches a year is unheard of now, which is because the demand a boxing match takes compared to MMA. It also easier for fan bases to take sides, striking vs. wrestling, in boxing its in vs ut fighters and speed guys versus power, etc. MMA will not replace boxing because the target audience is not the same. Even betting on matches is a fools errand because it can end with any lucky shot. Only Hasim Rahman has had that one punch luck in the past eight or so years.

Answer 10

The judges suck, but some of them do have some kind of martial arts background and a lot of them come from boxing. Cecil Peoples, who is considered one of the worst, actually comes from kung fu or something like that. The commissions need to get rid of all the ones from boxing and singular martial arts and bring in some people who understand ALL aspects of MMA.

Answer 11

Good question.



I don't think it will ever take the place of boxing since they are both different sports with completely different histories and futures.



That being said, I agree with the previous poster about MMA popularity. I think its increase in popularity is inevitable.Its popularity here in the USA is linked to young white middle class males. I do not think that this will be a generational sport where this generation will pass down its popularity to the younger generation in order to begin tradition like we see in American Football.



Rather, I see it continuing to gain popularity through the loss of older fans but the gain of the youth.



Being mainstream? I don't think so. I see it relegated to a PPV money making machine with its main audience in the middle class youth.

Answer 12

MMA will never take the place of boxing, as boxing is a clearly defined sport, whereas MMA is just a jumbled hodgepodge of martial art disciplines.



Boxing will eventually have to address it's own troubles as the money will eventually stop. Ebb and flow. It's inevitable that there will be a boxers union and some kind of re-organization of the governing bodies.

Answer 13

NEVER!! MMA is for boys who like rolling around the floor in their underwear with other men!!!

Look at the top MMA fighters records, they have several loses due to the fact of lucky strikes.

Boxing is a true science where you apply your trade and you need to out think, out smart, out work and out last your opponent.

MMA is "hit and hope" then roll around the floor with each other.

I keep hearing about how fast MMA is growing but the fact is it should as it has come from nowhere. Lets see how it goes when it peaks. It'll get old real fast!



Boxing will never die, it has CLASS!!

Answer 14

They are two different sports and personally I do both, and it is rare for kids to start MMA like they do boxing. Parents don't let their kids start it at a young age so it probably will get to be right behind it just because you wont start out on MMA

Answer 15

Hello homos, giving me thumbs down ain't gonna change the fact that boxing sucks donkey balls.



I lmao at boxing ******* claiming that they would beat up mma fighters, i think they are only capable of beating up chicks in a pillow fight.



Here is one of the greatest pillow punchers of all time, and his shitty performance against not the greatest mma guy:



"Ali visited a professional wrestling match involving Inoki and witnessed Inoki's grappling ability. This led Ali's camp to restrict the fight to striking rules only, with grappling disallowed.[citation needed] The rules of the match were announced several months in advance. Two days before the match, however, several new rules were added which severely limited the moves that each man could perform. A rule change that had a major outcome on this match was that Inoki could only throw a kick if one of his knees was on the ground.[3] In the match, Ali landed a total of six punches to Inoki and Inoki kept to his back in a defensive position almost the full duration of the match of 15 rounds, hitting Ali with a low kick repeatedly.[4] The bout ended in a draw, 3-3. Ali left without a press conference and suffered damage to his legs as a result of Inoki's repeated leg kicks.[5]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Inoki "



hahahahaha thats right morons, this so called "greatest" drew with some avg wrestler in a match that gave him all the advantage by curtailing Inoki's most effective moves like takedowns.



So keep living in your delusionary world, but in the real world, any decent mma fighter would massacre so called boxing greats in both mma rule bound fights or a no rules vale tudo fight.



my advice to pillow punchers is, grow a pair, stop doing pillow fights like little girls, and learn to fight like real men.



question: how do you make a professional boxer wet his trunks?

answer: challenge him to a fight, i am sure thats a new experience for him.

Answer 16

Dollbaby melissa, you're a lifetime martial artist? doing kata's and yelling KEE AYE at dragon karate in your local strip mall doesn't count. neither does kickboxing to dance music at bally's fitness. you should stick to watching jet li movies and believing thats how fights really go down. anyway, stock up on some mace, your lifetime's worth of "martial arts training" will be useless when you get socked in the face.



first of all, mma has a long, hoary history...far older than boxing. go look up pankration, vajra mushti, mallayuddha, pancratium, brazilian booth fighting and many others. so contrary to what you may believe, unlike boxing losers who all thought they could have a shot at glory after watching Rocky, mma's roots are much, much older and isn't based on some movie.



number 2, mma fighters are some of the greatest athletes in the world. most are experts in at least two martial arts, some have represented their countries in the olympics. to suggest that they are unfit or untalented is straight up stupid. but i can't expect much more from a dumb bimbo like you.



boxing has only lasted a century, mma has lasted more than a few millenia. boxing is a stupid *** sport with two individuals wearing oversized gloves pummeling each others heads for 12 rounds.



real combat sports consists of strikes, wrestling, kicking, locks, holds, throws, etc. people who participate in mma are infinitely more talented than boxing pillow fight morons.



anyway boxing is dying out, mma is becoming exponentially more popular, soon boxing will be relegated to dinosaurs who refuse to acknowledge the superiority of mma and retards like dollbaby melissa who don't know anything.

Answer 17

No it won't, not as long as there are fans to stand with the sport and their will always be fighters there. MMA couldn't kill boxing if it wanted to, but they keep trying to say it is dying and they keep trying to say they are the ones killing it. How can you say boxing is dead when fights like Vasquez-Marquez trilogy are happening.

Answer 18

Im a huge boxing fan and a martial arts fan and i have to say that your comment calling MMA crap is CRAP!!!



You obviously know nothing of the work and commitment that it takes to became a fighter at not one but three different ranges.



A boxer learns his basic foot work (stand on the corners of a box) and learns his jab and right hand and everyone is scared of the southpaw because he is different. Does that not say it all!! anything different is considered taboo.



An MMA fighter on the other hand fights at 3 different ranges.. stand up ie boxing and kicking the clinch, or stand up wrestling, and the ground. they also train and fight for 5 minute rounds.... 5 minutes of some guy at 15stone beating down on you is not for the faint hearted.



A boxer does not have to worry about some guy rushing him and taking him down or worry about the excruciating pain of getting kicked in the thigh or worry about the point of an elbow in the face.



Boxing has become obselete and it has no one to blame but itself.

Any of the top fights today are all pay per view and lets be honest who really watched any of the undercard to Hatton vs Mayweather but yet to watch this it cost £14.99, the UFC on the other hand has an action packed card from the outset.



The fight world has changed and boxing is stuck in the mud an cannot keep up.



So please do not diss a discipline or form of fighting when you do not know what you are talking about

Answer 19

Well im sorry to tell you this but the sport of boxing has already lost its place to MMA and the reason i believe that this has happened is there is so much more action in the MMA and it is much more intertaining with makes it so much better then watching to guys swing at eachother for a few rounds and then the rest of the match they just grab eachother and hold on and i tried to become a boxing fan but i cant stand the slow pace of the sport

Answer 20

Boxing sucks donkey balls.



It's for homos who cant fight like real men and instead wear 16 oz "gloves" (more like pillows) on their hands, and hit each other in the heas like a bunch of retarded chicks at a slumber party.



And yes MMA will replace this shitty excuse for a "sport", all these boxing loving homos you see on here chatting ****, they will be the first to use kicks etc in a real street fight.



MMA is FIGHTING, boxing is PILLOW PUNCHING.



Perhaps these homos should tell US special forces to limit their combat training to wearing pillows, and punching each other in the head like sissies, and see the reaction.



And screw the so called boxing "heritage", all kinds of garbage are ancient, that doesn't make them good, plus for your info retards, MMA has existed the moment man started fighting, the ancient greeks called it Pankration, the Indians called it Vajra mushti, so even in that boxing loses.



Boxing is for old senile types like Mccain who don't know what real fighting means, and will die a much deserved death.

Answer 21

no look at floyd mayweather jr. oscar dela hoya they make more in 1 fight money than a mma fighters would make in there carrear no offence to mma but they make that money to fans going to the fight and buying the pay per views

Answer 22

Boxing is a real sport. Actually, the best sport there is.



MMA is just what a bunch of guys who can't do anything particularly well do.

Answer 23

Boxing is the greatest. MMA will phase out.

Answer 24

MMA has already taken the place of boxing. MMA is way more diverse then boxing and is attracting more young viewers then boxing can. Boxing is too one dimensional its not as exciting as MMA.

Answer 25

I certainly hope not.

Answer 26

no. never.

Answer 27

NEVER.