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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I am getting a lot of comebacks at once.
Let me sum up the situation:
A "sport" that allows a fighter to strike a man who is down is cowardly, unmanly, and craven. The general public will never accept this. MMA may have a fanbase of 18-35 white Americans. There may be more PPV buys on a celebrated brawl between two MMA fighters than a genuine championship match.
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it's amazing how fiercely you are defending your ignorance and intolerance. i can tell you're an older gent, and i can tell you're a brit, but there's absolutely no reason not to keep an open mind and at least acknowledge if not respond to the many points being made to you that have to do with your cherry-picking anomalies and "summing up of the situation."
1) regardless of history and terminology,the fundamental goal of boxing is to pummel someone repeatedly in the head. this results in more tragedies in the ring and it also results in more adverse long term effects on a fighters mental state. your sweet scientists end up with scrambled eggs for brains.
entertainment-wise, boxing is checkers to MMA's chess. there's just so many more ways to win and so many more ways a match can go. regardless of your antiquated views on MMA being barbaric, you have to be able to see the appeal to fight fans, whether they come in droves from WWF or from boxing, which, make no mistake, they are.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
People have accused me of trolling, have basically called me a prick and a fool... let me tell you that I speak honestly when I say I love boxing, I love sports, I love watching two men go toe to toe in an honest fight. I HATE and feel SICK to see a man who is put down hit on the floor. This genuiely disgusts me. I am not lying to you or playing a game or just trolling for negative comments. I REALLY hate this MMA for this reason. It REALLY sickens me to see a man who is down be hit. I dont like to watch.
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this is the most honest and straightforward you've been; i'd say you're on the right track. the one thing you have to do is own this and acknowledge that no matter how "right" you feel, that the rest of the world doesn't follow along with your views even if you think it should. speak for yourself and we can all communicate a lot more effectively. try to avoid summing up how the general public thinks, or what they'll think in the future.... even you have to admit that's an assinine thing to do in a forum.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I accept in a street fight anything goes.
I have NO respect for anyone who, for sport, takes part in a spectacle when a man who is down can be hit. They may be good thugs, but they are not men.
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you're repeating yourself. you JUST said this. ok, we get it. man down getting hit = not men fighting in your eyes. just please, acknowledge that its an opinion, not a fact.... accept that theres other viewpoints out there, and the world might change enough so that you're in the minority... in fact it already has if you ask a lot of folks. if you can't respond to us, just admit that, don't ignore the valid points we're putting in front of you.
i'll add one more thing here. i happened to see both live fights this past saturday. mayweather/hatton was a great fight i thought, but each and every fight on the undercard was a complete snore fest.
the ufc fights on the other hand, from top to bottom had an intriguing mix of good matchups style-wise and absolutely awesome endings.
just going into saturday as a fan of both sports, entering it objectively in the hopes of witnessing exciting matches..... boxing fell way short. if i have to wait through 4 boring snore-fest fights to get one exciting one, why do that when ufc has about 3 times the return when it comes to time well spent viewing.