Boxing is going downhill

Lance wrote:Pathetic

spencerclarke wrote:I never understand the comparison between mma and boxing. Different sports. It's like comparing cricket and baseball. I have no interest in mma but am not critical of those that have.

shenglong2015 wrote:This place is full of women

Steffan wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:This place is full of women

Sheng how are you doing?

Hoping your Irish boys can qualify for Euro 2016 it would be nice to have another team there to cheer on (as long as we don't play each other)

Adam D wrote:

spencerclarke wrote:I never understand the comparison between mma and boxing. Different sports. It's like comparing cricket and baseball. I have no interest in mma but am not critical of those that have.

I think its fair to compare the two to be honest as they are both individual combat sports.


Of course you can compare them in that respect but its not like you can only follow one or the other. probably 50% of fight fans are fans of both sports and K1/Glory as well, although that just doesn't get the coverage. I just don't get this boxing vs mma nonsense or one is taking over the other. Both will have there highs and lows but they are both here to stay and can live alongside each other. Lets not forget boxing is part of mma, every mma fighter has a boxing coach, you don't train mma without training boxing as part of it.


People can harp on about the sweet science being superior to MMA but ultimately, both are about beating the other person, through aggression. Whereas MMA has regressed in terms of an entertaining spectacle (the majority practice the same discipline as opposed to the old days where you had wildly varying fights) but as boxing becomes more of a farce (with regards to federation BS), MMA will catch up.

I don't agree, ok there is now a breed of new fighters coming through that are 'mma' fighters who have just trained mma, but still the majority of champions are still fighters that came from a single style of fighting ie wrestling, muay thai/kick boxing & juijitsu, there are plenty of good entertaining fights out there. Dana White is constantly saying he wants exciting fights, leave it all in the cage, don't leave it in the hands of the judges. He'll openly admit its the entertaing industry and he has to put bums on seats.

Boxing has a 100 year+ legacy in its favour but the major oragnisations are doing their best to screw it up.

I would hazard a guess that most new people to combat training will more likely get in to MMA than boxing as a past time/ sports career.


As a past time, to get fit etc a very good chance, but as a career I'm not so sure. I have a few friends back in the UK that fight mma/used to fight mma and they all say the same, mma is a hard sport, you have to train about 5 different disciplines 6 or 7 days per week, thats hard enough, then come the injuries. A couple have switched to white collar boxing, as that I'm told is on the up, and that its easier! You just train boxing, 3 - 5 days per week is enough and you pick up less injuries. For the teenagers its a lot better as well for the aforementioned reasons and maybe some can progress, a couple even into the pro's. The uk amateur circuit is far more professional than the mma circuit. And as I said in an earlier post, with UK success in the amateurs and a few more world champs in the pro's more people gonna take it up


Final thing, irrespective of which ever side you prefer (I prefer boxing these days), a couple of things that MMA does better is the way that the best usually fight the best. And the main reason for this is that the "0" is not a huge thing in MMA. People lose but they are not immediately labelled a hype job or tomato can for it.