Dirty Shoez said:
How much skill does it take to punch someone in the face repeatedly until they fall down?
Boxing is one skill: Punching. With MMA, if you don't have (at a BARE MINIMUM) Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing.....you're either going to be choked out or have the shit kicked out of you.
1 skill...vs 2+ skills.
Win by KO or Decision...vs Win by KO, Submission or Decision.
Boxing is like Running, while MMA is the whole Triathalon. The reality is that MMA is superior. I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings, but the truth has the ability to do that to people.
If thats what you're trying to reduce boxing to, then you're no better than the boxers and boxing fans who say that MMA is nothing more that two savages rolling around together on the ground trying to rip each other's heads off.
The fact is, that both take an extreme amount of skills. But they are two different animals.
I think that boxers and boxing fans feel threatened by MMA's rising popularity. And feel like their beloved sport is slowly taking the backseat to the up and coming sport.
The thing is, most MMA fans I know, are boxing fans, who grew tired of boxing's ( moreso promoter's ) inability to match the best with the best, and too many lackluster fights, that didn't deliver what casual fans wanted to see.
A knockout, or at least a brutally entertaining fight, where two men left their hearts and souls in the ring. And MMA delivers on that note.