MMA(Mixed martial arts) vs Boxing?

Question

Which do you prefer to take or watch?

Answer 1

I am a big fan of both. And would like to think you can be. Boxing isnt going to die, MMA i think is bigger then boxing now,

I mean how says you have to pick one.

Answer 2

MMA, that Kimbo Slice guy makes it worthwhile.

Answer 3

I prefer both than watching the sick RAW! They were all fakes!

Answer 4

I like what Elmer Fu said. With boxing, you can only use your hands and only throw certain kinds of punches. No feet, no wrestling, no judo, no holding on to each other forever, etc. It's like a human chess match. I think it's much more exciting to watch! Generally, the fights last longer too- up to 12 rounds.

Answer 5

Boxing, by lightyears.

MMA takes the power and control of asian  martial arts, the strength and technique of greco-roman wrestling, and the endurance, craft and ruggedness of boxing, mixes it all together, and gives you 2 half-naked men with tattoos dry humping each other on the floor of a steel cage.  It's about as silly as combining basketball, football and baseball, and playing it in a high school cafeteria.

Boxing has craft, endurance and skill, men with contrasting styles battling it out.  And at it's best, the world stops what it's doing when a big fight occurs.  Purest form of sport.

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Hey Maha,

Jones-Calzaghe, Pavlik-Calzaghe, Mayweather-Pacquio, Mayweather-Cotto

1 fight that's going to happen,  3 that are likely to happen and will probably happen...all of which will stop the sports world for one night.

When MMA had this "stop the world fight", A fellow named Lidell took a nap the first time he got hit by a fellow named Jackson.  1 minute of action and maybe 3 punches thrown.

Answer 6

I like boxing better, but in MMA a fighters career is not destroyed for losing a fight  so he will fight better fighters more often unlike boxing where he fights 30 tomato cans first and then gets beat when he steps up and then you dont here from him anymore.

Answer 7

Right now I'd have to say MMA. Elmer Fuddstein's argument doesn't hold any water for 2008 because there aren't any fighters currently in any of the divisions that the whole world would stop for.

MMA is where the attention is at right now. It's definitely on the rise with weekly, nay daily shows on Spike TV. It's definitely far more interesting to watch guys like Matt Serra, Matt Hughes, Kimbo Slice, etc. and the drama that goes along with them.

There is currently nobody in the heavyweight division that is worth mentioning. There are some big names in the middleweight division but De La Hoya, Vargas, Bernard Hopkins, Felix Trinidad, and Weinke Wright and others are either very old or getting old and are past their prime. Floyd Mayweather just retired so there he goes. The only boxer I'd pay to see right now is Pac-Man.

MMA is interesting also because it's a different angle than boxing. It's more a true measure of a fighter's abilities. Someone may have a devastating ability to punch, but in an all out war on the street that doesn't mean much if he can't grapple on the ground (which is where most fights wind up).

Answer 8

MMA!

Not that boxing doesn't have its finer points.  There are definitely some things about boxing that MMA can't cover, such as the finesse (although some MMA fighters definitely have finesse!)

MMA has footwork, timing, strength, power, and speed (like boxing) but incorporates a wider variety of moves.  My favorite thing about MMA is that even though it LOOKS more violent, it really is safer for the fighters.  They take fewer shots to the head, and the injuries they sustain are USUALLY more superficial -- you don't see MMA guys getting hydroencephaly and Parkinson's disease (if they lose that many fights their career is over before they get that far!).  They just get cuts and bruises.

Answer 9

Boxing.

On both counts.

Kimbo Slice is a joke, and I am not going to invest my time into another fad.

MMA may be safer, but if you want to be safe, don't take a combat sport.

I did not box to be safe, and i do not think MMArtist got into their sport for safety.

It is about the love of your sport.

elmer_fuddstien is my hero!