Weekend's Biggest Fight? Boxing vs. Mixed Martial Arts

Your tone virtually says you don't care for the MMA without directly saying it,but it is the first article I ever liked that you wrote. Dana is right,after Mayweather wins tomorrow night than the last great boxing event will be when Manny whips him to death,than boxing will be dead. I think the UFC will outsell the boxing event by a 2-1 margin Saturday night,GO RICH!

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If you want to see Mix Martial Arts, you can't see that watching a bar fight Bourbon Street. That's like me saying if I want to watch a basketball game, I'll watch two 2 year old play ball on a 2 foot hoop.

MMA fighters are professionals, using skills (boxing, muay thai, wreslting,judo) that have been around for hundred of years to fight their opponents. it's not bar fight at ALL.

I don't understand why you old media types can grasp this. True combat sport fans can appreciate both sports equally. You have two well train athletes, battling for money, recognition, and respect. The only difference is the rules of the sports, and the business model. MMA has it right.

Mayweather is going to win the ppv fight this saturday, however, if Boxing wants to stay relevant they are going to have to stop their stupid corrupt practices and start showing the fights that the people want. Something that MMA does every month.

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Boxing is boxing but those ancient sports club into one commercialized type of sport isn't boxing at all.people that like or even got interested of boxing knows that ,it is boxing.
Where are you people getting that bad idea that boxing is outsold or out like by MMA/UFC.If it is a jig zaw puzzle to fit and finish it won't because boxing is really above and MMA/UFC ,i don't maybe getting notice?if the growth of wealth is the basis then even those not in any business of sport is outdoing boxing too.

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You mention Sam Vasquez whose death was a tragedy but on an unregulated card. It was a small show with the wrong properly trained people present. How many boxers on big shows have been severely hurt or died? Present all the facts. You are a great writer and MMA may not be to your liking but atleast give all the facts with the safety record. Two deaths in 20 years on small unlicensed shows.

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Dana White is the Man! he took something we love and provided it to us. effeciently. thank you

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I love both sports. but UFC needs to quit putting weak cards together. They have 5 belts so there should be one up for grabs at every PPV. There is no way UFC will come close to the PPV sales tonight. There are too many Mexicans that will order the boxing tonight.

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Osacar DelaHoya, in my opinion, single handedly has destroyed the sport of boxing. What he calls a "fight" is not fighting. If anyone in history is a paper champion, he is. In the beginning, I used to pay for Oscar DeLaHoya fights. Until I realized what his "style" was. Then I moved to buying the fights hoping to see an opponent destroy him. Then it dawned on me the corruption that was at play here. The "fight" was an exhibition, a dance, orchestrated, no one gets hurt, everyone gets paid. People have gotten fed up with that senario. I remember watching the post fight interviews when Mayweather said with a big smile on his face how he was ready for a rematch with DeLaHoya. Oh yea, Floyd, and you think we're ready to shell out 50 bucks to watch your bogus fight again. I'm an MMA fight fan. Yes, a fight fan. Like millions of others disgusted with the old ways of boxing. The sport of boxing is dead. And I blame the Golden Boy, who was all about getting paid from the beginning. He killed the sport. Now that he is promoting, I'm sure he'll kill it dead.

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well i like boxing and i like ufc,mma. and i see it like this, the reason why mma is still some what in the infant stage compared to boxing is the stupid people at espn that don't want to give mma much if any coverage. they want to view it as just brutal sluggfest, when it's fighting like boxing except they can use other parts of there body, to me espn needs to remember it is us the fans that made them what they are, without us there would have been no sports center. so why step on and over mma fans. but hey at least espn shows great sports like cup stacking or hotdog eating contest, where some dumbass wins by stuffing his or her mouth with food and no doubt puking it up later, so they can win a belt that no one gives a damn about, im not going to be walking around and be like hey! there is that guy who ate 50 hotdogs, i could care less. so espn needs to stop being stuck up and get their head out their ass, and cover mma who are they to decide we are the one's watching, so i say make your wants known to espn. and it's true there have been way way more deaths in boxing then mma, over the history of boxing there has been more then one death, not to forget about injuries, the greatest of all time has parkinson i thibk it is or some kind of medical issue which was brought on by all the blows he took to the head, if anything mma does is it puts money in the pockets of dentis and some of the fighters end up with messed up ears. anyway espn grow the hell up and show mma, because at the moment boxing does not have any well know heavy weight boxers.

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your boxing nuthuggers can brush MMA off and call it what you want...but face it, boxing as a sport is dead and MMA is the future of combat entertainment..hence the MMA, boxing is part of it... maybe if you took the time to appreciate it you'd see the art involved..nobody wants to watch two boxers throw two punches and clinch.. waste of time and mayweather is a waste of money..de la hoya , tyson, those were the last wave of real boxers. and Arum is an ass, he ruined boxing and now he realizes MMA and the UFC brand are where the fans are going.

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Look, boxing is great,but how many fights do you get for $49.95? One? With MMA you get five, six, depending on how the fights go. What happens if there is a knockout in the first round of the Mayweather fight? Hope it was worth the money.
And i agree with kerel24k. If you are a fight fan, you can be excited to watch a boxing match, or a mma fight, or olympic judo matches, or a jujitsu tournament. Why does there have to be a difference?
And the whole swastika tattoo thing. Is it wrong? Hell yeah it's wrong. Does it mean that all white mma fighters are neo nazi white power enthusiasts? No. But Mayweather did say that mma is "the only fighting sport white fighters can find in which they can thrive." Is that a wrong racial remark? Yeah. Fighters are fighters. Most aren't politically correct soft spoken people.

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They will have their eyes on the black man, of course!! Why would they even bother to put the white man in the ring??? Blacks are taking over every sport - but ain't that the plan??? They won't be happy until they own the world - and if they have a little glitch along the way, all they have to do is cry "RACIST" - this gets them anything they want and THEY KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!

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