Is the UFC the end of boxing?

Question

Boxing has been terrible for years. Terrible judges and no dominating heavyweight has hurt. I havent spent money to watch a boxing fight since Tyson but every month I fork up 50 bucks to watch the UFC. Has MMA thrown the last bit of dirt on the grave of boxing or can it recover? By the way who is the heavyweight champion.

Answer 1

Excellent question. I think boxing will survive - I suspect the fighters can have longer careers. Boxing has always been a bit of a margin-type sport - not a huge arena game like football or baseball.

Who is the hw champ? I have no clue!

Answer 2

If the only weight division you care about is the heavyweights, then I would guess the UFC or MMA would appeal to you. Most average boxing fans prefer to see the big guys pound each other into the canvas and the more blood, the better. However, a true boxing fan enjoys all the weight classes - the lighter guys provide excellent fights and fast action. They don't hold, waltz and occasionally club like the big guys. I really do believe that boxing is far from being buried.

Answer 3

I agree that boxing hasn't been the same in years. Heavyweights are terrible but there's still a few good divisions left like the superfeatherweights. Best division right now. UFC is better all around and getting bigger every year but it's not as big and will never be as big as boxing. Champs are:

WBA WBC IBF
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Nicolay Valuev Hasim Rahman Wladimir Klitschko

44-0 (32 KOs) 41-5-2 (33) 46-3 (41)

Answer 4

The question should be how long can the UFC can last compared to boxing, Boxing is still more popular than the UFC. And there are four Heavy Weight world campions Rahman, Valeuv, Klitchko, and Liakhovich.

Answer 5

Yea, Boxing has been falling in popularity since Ali left, and now that there is a more extreme sport with the same basic aspect, boxing doesn't have a fighting chance,(no pun intended)

Answer 6

Boxing is rigged. The fighters throw fights, the judges are paid off to cheat, and the referees are paid to play favorites and ref unfairly. The promoters will back both fighters and don't care who wins, what ever pays more. Most boxing is done where gambling is legal and bribes and blackmale is all around.

UFC produces some beat downs and better fighting with blood, pain, and great knockouts. now it is not just one style that wins, you need to be good and several styles to win. One of these guys would smoke a boxer. Put matt hughes in a ring with some one of his same weight, play by mma rules and matt would punish him.

Answer 7

of course not! boxing is still one of the biggest sports event today ... especially when there are big names involve like the one everybody wanted to happen soon, a superfight between mayweather and de la hoya ... big money is on the line ... it's not all about heavyweights ... check out the lower weight classes, there are a lot of exciting fights in there ... watch out for PACMAN!

Answer 8

To those of generation X, they prefer the UFC. I (baby boomer) like the UFC but boxing is number 1.

Answer 9

ufc sucks i mean its like so boring come on man boxing is actually exciting better than watching men in thier underwear rolling around like thier kissing or something you have to be real man boxing is really good ufc please its like what bootleg kick boxing and all you do is role around man your getting me mad if I went to one of them ufk or whatever its called fights then i would fall asleep i wouldn't even go for free boxing acourse i would but ufc never i dont think that a lot of people even go to that i bet its empty and they have a sound machine making the shouting sound so it looks excitng but it doesnt so they should just stop.

Answer 10

Always enough for the two fighting schools.