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Originally Posted by ubertuber
I don't recognize a single name you've dropped, other than Muhammad Ali and Chuck Liddell. Isn't THAT kinda the point? I don't think that anyone here is saying that boxing doesn't have a storied history with legendary figures -- it does. On the other hand, things change, and it seem to me that MMA is growing in viewership, technique, and now, heritage. It's not inconceivable that it will have all of the history that boxing once did, and more viewers to boot. We may even be getting close to that point, at least for the second half of it.
The pageantry of boxing reminds me of WWF way more than the MMA community does.
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You've never heard of John L Sullivan?
Well... I can tell you, I've never heard of Chuck Liddell other than through this thread.
I think anyone will agree that someone who is trained all their life in one set of rules would dominate someone who isnt schooled in that...
But if he went down into a cellar with no witnesses but the barkeep to open the door at the agreed signal... Chuck Liddell with a man like Sullivan, or a man like Dempsey, like Liston, like Foreman, like Tyson... NO ONE would have heard of Liddell other than his own mother.
The sweet science is a sport of exact skill, but if you want just take it down to "who would win in a fight" - I wouldnt back any of your boys against, say, Sonny Liston.
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And anyone who boasts of never having heard of Jem Mace, probably shouldnt be presenting themselves as a big fan of any kind of "martial art"