Boxing can't even compare now

[voiceboxisback]

Guida-Huerta and Rollins-War Machine>Hatton-Mayweather by far.... not even close

EDIT: After rewatching Floyd's fight again, it was pretty exciting

[Adam Pacman Khan (akkilla)]

yep, i've lost faith in the fist to fist art.

[WWHHHD]

Gimme boxing anyday of the week. You know exactly what you are getting. Two guys standing off against each other just throwing punches.

Sure I know I'm going to get nailed with people telling me how great MMA is. And I'm a fan of the sport and they have some pretty good fights. But, you never know what your going to get and I just hate seeing people in the guard for 4 minutes at a time doing nothing. It reminds me of watching High School wrestling.

[T Vang is a HO-DADDY~!]

malonesr said:

Gimme boxing anyday of the week. You know exactly what you are getting. Two guys standing off against each other just throwing punches.

Sure I know I'm going to get nailed with people telling me how great MMA is. And I'm a fan of the sport and they have some pretty good fights. But, you never know what your going to get and I just hate seeing people in the guard for 4 minutes at a time doing nothing. It reminds me of watching High School wrestling.

This is quite a valid point, but usually once you get into mma you know what you're going to get based on the fighters involved. If it's to BJJ masters, well then you'll get the 4 minutes in the guard, but if you have 2 well rounded fighters, then it's gonna be great.

[rzombie1988]

Boxing's smoking UFC in ppv numbers right now, so obviously they can. I like UFC more probably, since all of boxing's big fights cost $50 to see, and there is no way I'd ever pay that. Meanwhile, you will probably see the UFC fight for free on tv at some point.

[Reverend BTY]

I didn't see Mayweather/Hatton. How was it as an overall fight?

[Tea & Crumpets]

vincerussoisgod said:

I didn't see Mayweather/Hatton. How was it as an overall fight?

Pretty good IMO. Hatton controlled early on but Floyd came into it quick, with some good even fighting until around round 7, where Mayweather just took control. The referee often wrecked the most heated parts in the first 5 roudn though, highly biased against Hatton.

[Joekishi]

rzombie1988 said:

Boxing's smoking UFC in ppv numbers right now, so obviously they can. I like UFC more probably, since all of boxing's big fights cost $50 to see, and there is no way I'd ever pay that. Meanwhile, you will probably see the UFC fight for free on tv at some point.

Boxing ALWAYS does great numbers, because there's a lot of people interested in the sport (and um gambling).

UFC will never get the amount of hype that Boxing does, but UFC doesn't have the mafia connections that Boxing does.

Eheh.

Oh it was an excellent fight. It was probably Mayweather's toughest fight even if he did win by KO, those last two shots were genius. The one where he used Hatton's momentum against him and had his face smash into the corner..

BRILLIANCe.

Right now UFC is doing great numbers too, they will never "catch up to boxing" because boxing is king of PPV.

Yeah Cortez was really hands on as much as Killer Kowalski at Starrcade '83. Seriously he stepped in whenever Hatton had an advantage.

I mean crap they were grappling and head locking each other so much.

Might as well have the rematch under MMA rules, and give the guys 4 oz gloves.

malonesr said:

Gimme boxing anyday of the week. You know exactly what you are getting. Two guys standing off against each other just throwing punches.

Leading me to this one, most heavyweight fights and other boring fights have a lot of clinching, dancing, and all that.

We've had great fights in the lighter weight classes though, Cotto, Pacquiao, and Mayweather are all becoming better and better.

I don't get why people say boxing is dead, it's not. Heavyweight Boxing is gone and dead.

The Lighter weight classes are home to the best fighters.

The Heavyweights besides the Klitchkos are fat, out of shape, roiders, who have no real skill.

Samuel Peters is a cruddy fighter.