mma is way more intereting in general but seeing Roy Jones Jr. was the best part of the card .

so if you want to waste bits and bytes on the mma<< thn boxing wait for another card.

Roy Jones Jr. is so unbelievably good.

IMO there is nothing wrong with the title what so ever, I think that the piece was well written and thought out… I personally believe that Boxing and MMA in the same show is a bad idea, I’ve never really gotten it.. If the crowd is pro~MMA the boxing get overlooked and if the crowd is pro~Boxing the MMA gets booed like mad, is it easier to understand boxing um perhaps, but there are little things in boxing that the casual fan just won’t understand, and god forbid if a MMA fight goes to the ground infront of a boxing crowd, they just can’t wrap their heads around that..

Whatever happened to the golden age (atleast for my generation) of boxing you know when you got to see Marvelous Marvin on CBS/NBC go for 10~12 rounds or Sugar Ray going toe to toe with his opponent at the time.. I mean you got to see Hearns fight wars Tyson was unstoppable the legands that were being made and for some the foundation of their legacy was being cemented on National TV, when it was the sweet science, Chavez was reigning supreme and you gather at the house to bbq and have beers (for the adults) then the family would sit down because the fights were starting and no one said shhhit just eww’s and aww’s, damns and wow’s and you watch the entire card just not the main.Whatever happend to those days, O thats right MMA (&UFC) came along and brought passion and joy back to combat sports … think about it cheers…

Booing every time a fight goes to the ground? 1, that’s disrespectful. 2, it shows a lack of understanding and more importantly a LACK OF DESIRE to understand.

Furthermore, when something is done only for the money, it IS the beginning of the downside. Take football, where the sport is being pussified to protect not people but INVESTMENTS. Cutting corners for money is the beginning of the end. Setting up a sure-win fight (see Jones Jr.-Sheika) for an easy payday is where a lot of people jump off. It’s no longer sport.

My last comment on this is that MMA ONLY fans can sit and wait for boxing’s demise so it can be king. Boxing will always be king for me but as long as there are guys like GSP, Rashad Evans, and Anderson Silva, I’ll keep watching both.

In regards to boxers supporting MMA, I’ve seen a lot of boxers and boxing supporters that want to bash MMA because they see it as a threat to boxing. I’m of the opinion that both sports can coexist, they shouldn’t necessarily be in competition. I just don’t want the negative things that are hurting boxing to be brought into MMA.

In regards to your concerns that “all this back and forth comparison is going to piss people off and make them choose,” you made this more of the back and forth about MMA v. Boxing. My comment in the article was simply that Sherridan’s comment about boxing being all about money is the reason why the sport is on a downturn.

Why should Dana White invite boxers to an event? Because it’s a good business move. It says they can coexist rather than you guys waiting for it to die. Once they(the boxers) come, they will no doubt enjoy the fight and say good things about it when the atmosphere is positive. I didn’t mean to say that they should coach them into verbalizing their appreciation for the athletes, but ask them what they thought about the fight. I guess I was typing to fast.

I love being a fan of both because I can appreciate what they both have to offer. But all this back and forth comparison is going to piss people off and make them choose. Why?

I didn’t say that it’s all about money, please go back and re-read that last paragraph, it was a boxing guy that said that. Sure people won’t turn down more money, but how many people in MMA do you think would honestly take money to lose a fight, like Sheika basically did against Jones. Not that he got paid to lose, but that he got paid to take a fight he really didn’t have a chance in. (A fact further implied by the commentators on fight night.)

Why would Dana invite the boxers to the fights? If he invited them, they would probably want to get paid to be there, instead he lets them show up of their own free will, which to be honest I think they do, and are shown on ring-side camera. Let the boxers come out and say on their own how much they admire the athletes, don’t “get them” to say it. It has a lot more value if they say it freely, versus “getting them” to say it, and inviting them to your events.

I never said that money isn’t important in MMA, just ask Randy Couture, Fabricio Werdum, Roger Huerta, and the many other people that have had pay disputes with the UFC. My point is, that MMA is not “all about making money,” as Sherridan stated that Boxing is.

This is the problem with MMA. You keep comparing it to boxing and talking about boxing’s faults. Saying stuff like it’s all about the money. Are you fool enough to believe that Anderson Silva wouldn’t fight for a multi-million dollar purse given the opportunity? I think Dana White should embrace boxing. Invite some of the top boxers to the premier fights. Let them be seen at ring-side on camera. Get them to say how much they admire the athletes after the fight. UFC will get to those big pay days I’m sure, but don’t be pretentious and act like they wouldn’t fight for the big money. You’re going about it all wrong!