Is Gary Shaw going to bring all the negative aspects of the boxing business into MMA?

Question

The corrupt judges?

The bad refs?

The terrible match making?

The protected fighters?

These problems plague boxing now it seems like Shaw wants to bring those to MMA. I sure hope he fails.

Answer 1

Dude...I swear to God I was thinking the exact same thing watching that abortion on Saturday night...Now if I woul've payed $50.00 to see THAT...I would be more than pissed.

Answer 2

Yes. Think it over. I don't believe the fights were rigged per se, but there was a plan there, going back to the first fight on the broadcast, Murphy vs. Rogers. Rogers is exactly the same type of fighter as Kimbo. Murphy is a little more refined. Murphy was supposed to win with finesse. Then he was supposed to trash talk Kimbo in the post fight. (Note, after Rogers won, they tried to get him to say that he wanted to fight Kimbo, but he redirected the question) Kimbo was supposed to go out and destroy Thompson in 30 seconds, then respond to Murphy's comments. They were supposed to have an argument at the post event interviews, setting up a fight between the two. The catch is, Kimbo would lose that match, setting up Murphy to be a fan- friendly face to build their TV broadcasts around. The plan failed, and they quickly prodded Rogers to start a fight with Kimbo, setting up the two brawlers to go toe-to-toe in a grudge match at an upcoming EliteXC card to be announced.

Answer 3

HOORAY!  Not everyone is focused on the clownfight!  

Thank you for asking the questions - we all know the answers:

Shaw is a punk who needs to get out of MMA.

Did you see one single MMA fighter in the crowd?  Usually you see Mask & company from Tapout, you see trainers, you see the contenders in the league...NOBODY in MMA wants to support the c**p Elite XC is promoting.

Everybody keeps pointing out that Kimbo is training under Bas Rutten...but was Bas anywhere near this thing? NO

Who were the sponsors of the fight?  Energy drinks?  LMAO!

The undercard fight (Lawler) was 10x better than the "headline" and it was stopped too early for that stupid poke in the eye - Shields was fine.  And in the post fight interviews, you KNOW all the fighters were contractually obligated to say how great EliteXC was.  What a load.  Did you see the female fighter from Couture's gym?  The announcer asked if it was a tough fight - she said "Not really, um, I mean yea.  It was a great fight, but I was sloppy.  I need to get in the gym and train some more."  She was good, but you know she walked over the other chick, EASY.  She was REQUIRED to say it was a tough fight.

I want to see Dana White vs Gary Shaw.  Bare Knuckles.  In a back yard.  On Youtube.

Answer 4

Probably, but if it wasnt him it'd be some other Don King knock off.  Wherever there's huge sums of money to be made youll find corruption. Sad but true i guess we just have to take the good with the bad