Honeslty I do not understand how anybody can consider this to be a skilled sport, I hate turning on the TV Set and watching to guys wrestle on the floor for the entire night, that is no way a fight.
and yet some how its considered skill, when in reality how can you consider that skill? they get to do just about anything you would on the street?
Boxing in my opinion is the far more skilled sport, you do not get to kick, choke, Throw elbows or Knees, you have a limited area of where you score points, you block and throw shots with only two hands.
to me there is no question Boxing is the far better skilled of the two, when you have more boundries such as boxing does you find out who really is the better man that night, I would be willing to bet that 99% of those in MMA couldnt do anything in the sport of boxing, which is why they need MMA it is a sport that allows them to basicly do pretty much what they want to do, to me that isnt skill, I can see that at any highschool any time
2007-10-19 17:03:37 · 7 answers · asked by Santiago R 1 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
Because modern man is twisted and deranged and barbarism and violence rules the minds of the simple.
Greed, violence and savagery are the order of the day.
2007-10-20 01:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by Darth Scandalous 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
MMA is growing because it is new... and many people find it exciting... It will just keep getting bigger... Obviously you haven't taken the time to understand everything that goes into it, and that is ok ... if you don't like it ... don't watch.... but it will continue to grow as long as there are people out there that haven't watched it for the first time, that will like it when they do... and as that happens there will be more and more money involved in it, and better athletes will begin to train in it... will it grow to the point that boxing dies... I don't think so... people love to watch basketball.... and baseball... So really the athletes choose which sport they want to play and get paid for... (Micheal Jordan could have been a MLB player if he wanted to commit himself to that sport at the age of 19)... it is not an "us against them" mentality..... most MMA fans are fans of boxing... I truly love it... and I am becoming a fan of MMA,.. It doesn't mean I am going to not watch Maywether beat Hatton 8 rounds to 4 by unanimous decision :) I will be watching it ... But please don't criticize MMA in the Martial Arts section... man it's just rude.... either don't watch it.. or try to learn about it :) take care
2007-10-20 02:15:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
isnt wrestling a sport? dont you have to know how to wrestle to score points and pin people in wrestling? isnt brazilian jiujitsu a sport which require skills to place choke holds and submissions? isnt muay thai a sport which requires skills to knockout an opponent? it takes skills to do any sport. every athlete is good in respect to their own sport
yea most mma probably dont have the hand skills like boxers so if you put them in the ring in a boxing only match they'll most likely lose. but the opposite is true too put a boxer in a mma match in which you can kick, grapple, knee, etc...and most likely the mma person will win. its their element.
dont get me wrong i enjoy boxing. i box and thai box, however boxing is limited. whenever i box i can do a lot move bobbing and weaving then when i'm doing muay thai, because if im bobbing in muay thai someone can time a knee and its light out for me, so in a sense you have to worry about more attacks so you have to calculate more.
didnt you hear about mayweather talking noise about mma. he pretty much said ufc fighters suck and they'd most likely get knockout by him before they can take him down, the president of ufc was like ok i'll pay you a boxing salary to fight the light heavyweight champion sean sherk in a mma. mayweather ended up declining
2007-10-20 00:25:21 · answer #3 · answered by Cnote 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think you know deep down you're full of sh*t. People choose to say what they say for a reason. It's not just random words coming out.
Now instead you of saying the boxer would go into the octagon and crush his opponents, you chose to have the MMA guy to go into the boxing ring, which would severely restrict him by making it so can use hardly any of what he's been taught.
If you honestly believe boxers are more skilled, why would you choose to place such crippling restrictions on the MMA fighter?
2007-10-20 01:02:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you don't see MMA as a skilled sport because you have seen very few mma fights and you dont understand any of the techniques. Maybe you're fine with jumping to conclusions without knowing what your talking about?
2007-10-20 02:31:38 · answer #5 · answered by gabkicks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mma is growing fast because it is a complete martial art which teach u stand up,take down n ground fights......to b a complete fighter u need to know all these three things....see i like boxing too...my background was boxing but it have lots of limitation ..u cant defend yr lower body part and u cant attact from distance so later on i moved to muay thai ...coz it gives me freedom to do anything...its best stand up fight....muay thai have one disadvantage ..it dont have ground fight...after learning muay thai for while i will train bjj for while so i know how to fight in ground.....see to become perfect fighter we need to put out hand in different type of martiala rt and tat is mma.....the complete art
2007-10-20 03:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You clearly went to a school with metal detectors...
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2007-10-20 00:16:35 · answer #7 · answered by Go42Online 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋