Why are the most popular MMA matches stand-up ones?

Question

Here's what I dont get: MMA is soaring in popularity and boxing is not. Why then do MMA fans love fights which are primarily stand up/boxing? EG. Bonner vs. Griffin If MMA fans want boxing, why not watch boxing?

Answer 1

First a stand up fight is more easy to understand, when two guys are rolling it is hard to tell what the h**l is happening. Many of the MMA fans also enjoy boxing.

Answer 2

For a number of reasons.

1. They don't have big gloves on so when a person gets punched, it looks like it really hurts them.

2. You don't have a referee breaking up the punches everytime someone clinches.

3. Since you don't have those big gloves on, you can punch quicker.

4. The fighters in MMA move quicker when standing up compared to boxers who move sort of slow.

5. In boxing, the boxers punch for 2 or 3 seconds and back up, sure this happens in MMA as well but MMA is more likely to have more combos and fast paced action

6. The MMA fans want nonstop punching action like every second of the round and that's what we get with MMA and not boxing. You can watch the first fight between Stephan Bonner and Forrest Griffin to see a prime example of this.

7. We don't watch boxing anymore (MMA fans) because there is no bad *** dude like Mike Tyson that straight just wants to fight and knock you out. (Mayweather is the best boxer alive but he does too much shucking and jiving instead of going in and knocking the c**p out of you) Hope this helped.

Answer 3

Boxing is strictly punching, boxing has no more awesome champions such as the greats (mike tyson, muhhamad ali, etc.) it doesnt even have that many cool competitors anymore, it seems even all the good fighters have turned to MMA instead of boxing, so wherever the awesome fighters are, the awesome fights are... wherever the awesome fights are the fans are. Simple. Plus stand up is soooo much more cooler than rolling around on the ground like a f*g. Unless of course there loading elbows into the dudes face. But for some reason MMA dudes forget about elbows.... hmm...

Answer 4

because it's still faster pace.  the younger generation have hyperactive minds that need to be stimulated non stop otherwise they'll lose interest.