Which is more exciting Boxing or MMA?

i still prefer to watch boxing...





i don't like UFC, becoz the ref will stop the fight right away..there are no exchanges from both fighters!!! and the ground fight..its very fu*kin boring!!! and i don't like grappling too...

Which is more exciting Boxing or MMA?
I'm a lifelong boxing fan, but I went to a UFC event several years ago, and the undercard was a bunch of boring wrestling (I'm from Iowa, and high school wrestling here is more exciting). The main event was an obvious fraud. It ended in a TKO with the loser knocked out cold on the mat. My friend and I both looked at each other in the moment and said something like "that didn't look real". So we were leaving the auditorium when we noticed a group of 20 or 30 reporters standing near an ambulance (I suspect they were actors, because the local media had very little interest in the event, and the "sport" had very little national exposure at the time). We went over to see what all the fuss was about, only to find the loser of the fight was being wheeled out on a stretcher. He was pretending to be unconscious and paralyzed for the crowd that was gathered. All the "reporters" were holding out microphones to the trainer or manager who was with him and asking, in emotional voices, about the status of the fighter. It was all so phony. They loaded him into the ambulance which had some generic name on the side. I don't remember the name anymore, but when I got home I looked in the phone book to find 3 different ambulance services, but not the one that I had seen at the auditorium. Anyway, Afer he was loaded into the ambulance, we were looking through the back window, because we were both pretty skeptical about the whole thing, and we saw the guys arm move to scratch an itch on his nose or something. We (or maybe it was just me) started shouting to the reporters "hey, he's fine, he just moved". None of them even batted an eye or looked in our direction, but a big bouncer looking guy came over and herded us away from the line of sight we were enjoying. We went and got in the car, and as we were driving home, we saw the ambulance in a parking lot a few blocks from the arena, next to big tour bus. Obviously he didn't go the hospital which was even closer to the auditorium. Although I believe that not all the matches are staged, I think it's basically like professional wrestling in the 50s. The title fights are choreographed. Boxing, of course, has a history of corruption, but when you see a guy with cuts and bruises all over his face, you know he was really in a fight. I think UFC belongs with Vince McMahon, and other "entertainment" sports. It doesn't matter who wins, because it's just a circus. Was it P. T. Barnum who said: "there's a sucker born every minute"





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Hey Rick S.


So...you're 14 or what? Oh, I see. I'm an idiot because I paid REAL money that I earned working at a REAL job to go see something that was advertised as REAL fight, when all it was, was a REAL fraud. Yes, I don't believe everything that I see on TV, so I'm an idiot. Have you ever been in a REAL fight?
Reply:UFC is more realistic because that is how people fight in real life. But boxing is way more artistic. That is why boxers get pay alot more than those MMA fighters.
Reply:I'm a boxing fan so I have to go with boxing. UFC is boring. Only once in a while you will see a good fight but usually it's just to guys rolling around the mat looking to choke each other out.
Reply:boxing cuz all ufc is a couple guys rollin round the mat.atleast in boxing there is constant action to a extent.
Reply:your reasons are why boxing is still the big money sport, millions of dollars, whereas the UFC stayed with kickboxing at the $100,000 payday level.





MMA may be the better sport, but it is still not the better spectator sport.





The simple fact that most people prefer to see striking knockouts.





As soon as you put grappling in you lose 9/10th of your TV audience who just tuned in to see blood.





In fact boxing in the very old days, was very like the UFC with plenty of grappling. But promoters soon worked out they get better crowds if they stand the fighters up.
Reply:Boxing. In boxing you have great fights, and great skill. And then you have the rich tapestry of history - Johnson. Louis, Marciano, Robinson, Ali, Leonard, Hagler, De La Hoya. Despite what people say about boxing, the big fights are still happening - Cotto vs Judah, DLH vs PBF.





In MMA, the referee often steps in too late. It is far too cynical. Then you have Bob Sapp, headbutting someone, and then rushing across the ring to challenge all-comers in an undignified manner.





Yes, I know that MMA has a lot of appeal to youner people (I myself am 22), and I know a lot of people watch it, but I'm sorry, It's just not my cup of tea. I'd much rather watch boxing.
Reply:Since I have an IQ above 50, I prefer boxing.
Reply:This Mike T guy is an idiot.... Sure boxing is the more prestigious sport with a great history.... MMA just barely implemented rules that will make it OK for TV. basically all I'm saying is MMA is growing at a rapid pace while boxing is going the way of hockey and baseball.
Reply:Do you like watching two man with the chances at 98% they will be wearing boy shorts wrestle around on the ground getting into multiple "gay" positions just to submit their opponent?? Not to bash on this beginner fighting sport, but there is a reason why straight men don't display this such behavior, especially in front of a large crowd.





Sorry, I'll stick with the good ol fists as the weapons to defeat your opponent, the minute foreplay on the ground was allowed was the day the gay man finally got his passing with a spot in fighting sports.