The thing is most sports are boring. I can spend hours on baseballreference looking up stats or searching for answers to wilheim's trivia, but I can't watch more than a couple innings before becoming restless. The last few minutes of an NBA game is nothing more than timeout after timeout. Even football with a bet is still mostly background noise. And when it comes to background noise, MMA fighters humping each other on the ground 90% of the time is still better than anything boxing has given us in the past 10 years. At least with MMA we know the best guys are going to be matched up against each other
Your right SD, every card you might get one or two matches where one of the fighters uses the 'lay and pray' method. Most times though it is just a fighter who is a very strong wrestler but hasn't refined the other skills needed to be an all around fighter or finish fights. But then you do get to watch that fighter progress and maybe turn into a great fighter.
At least with each card you get 6 or so fights.
It is just hard to watch boxing sometimes. Pac dominated the fight and it still went to a decision. It is those damn dinosaur mittens they wear.
Watch the next UFC with Penn and Hughes and we will see what you think.
Many many Moons ago, i would have said Boxing. but after losing some Good Heavy weights guys.... plus nothing standing out..... a lot of talk about Boxing being Fixed....Don King BS ! some really Bad Fights over the pass few years.....etc etc
MMA is a better Product.
Just the excitement Alone, is the reason I perfer MMA
MMA is a better Product.
Just the excitement Alone, is the reason I perfer MMA
I agree with you 100% BAS, just nothing going on in boxing.
But the Kampmann v Shields fight a few weeks back was fixed. The decision was clearly set before the match took place. One of the judges didn't care about making it obvious and went with a 30-27 score for Shields. I've been in the business way too long to cry about bad beats, this was just a fixed match and the more its brought up the better. This type of shit you can't let slide. Around the net on MMA forums, etc., there have been and were rumblings of funny biz regarding this specific fight.
I've heard Dana run his mouth on the Jim Rome show among many other places, I've hit up his facebook a couple times, f'n horsesh*** , one of the many reasons I don't care for boxing anymore, fixed fights.
But the Kampmann v Shields fight a few weeks back was fixed. The decision was clearly set before the match took place. One of the judges didn't care about making it obvious and went with a 30-27 score for Shields. I've been in the business way too long to cry about bad beats, this was just a fixed match and the more its brought up the better. This type of shit you can't let slide. Around the net on MMA forums, etc., there have been and were rumblings of funny biz regarding this specific fight.
I've heard Dana run his mouth on the Jim Rome show among many other places, I've hit up his facebook a couple times, f'n horsesh*** , one of the many reasons I don't care for boxing anymore, fixed fights.
Shields won that fight. He's boring as shit and doesn't dish out damage but he almost always maintains top position. While there, he's in a dominant position and the other guy isn't doing jack. It's a boring way to win fights but he deserves to win rounds that way. Same thing as if a boxer lands 3 pussy jabs a round but doesn't get hit at all. If the other guy isn't threatening for more than a second or two a round, you just can't give him the round...
