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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
When boxing first started it had a lot of elements that MMA does now (bear knuckle, even fencing)...but boxing has become refined over the years to be the ultimte test of manliness.
MMA is a flash in the pan, a retrograde step, going backwards to an uglier and less exciting contest. They package it like WWF, and they have some fans in a certain area (male, young, middle class)
Boxing is an honest sport for working men. The middle class fans of MMA will soon move on to something else once this thing is no longer trendy.
When no one remembers who Brock Lesner or Randy Coutre is - John L Sullivan will stand out, a name ringing true across the ages, as a mighty heavyweight champion, the pinnacle of manliness.
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In case you haven't noticed, boxing is about as dead as rock and roll. Boxing has been so tainted over the years and it's participants so over the top that people got tired of it.
You would have a point if MMA was some lawless and ruleless exhibition like it was in the very beginning but they have changed quite a bit in the past years. It is very controlled and very safe.
Again, this thread is pointless as you have an opinion about manliness and MMA doesn't fit that mold for you. Just because it doesn't fit for you, doesn't mean it doesn't fit for others. So go back to your Cricket (which is SOOOOO manly) and your boxing and let MMA continue to pound your sport into the ground and just bury your head in the sand about the facts. Boxing and MMA are both sports, they just have different rules and different tactics. How is that so difficult to understand? I'm getting quite tired of this thread and the lopsidedness that you display here. It's really quite annoying to read this troll fest.