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Originally Posted by JayP
And I'm sure you're going to be glued to the TV this summer when Olympic wrestling is on too. The technical aspects of MMA are the typical argument to hide the fact that most people watch it to see some bare-knuckle beat downs.
The fact that there's MMAers out there that were simply tough guys off the street and they learned a couple counters puts it at a level infinitely below boxing, IMO.
It's funny - half the people in this thread ripping on J Pold for underestimating the strategy of MMA just did the same thing with boxing. And I'm sure if you asked someone well versed in both they'd easily tell you that boxing is by far the more technically difficult sport. It's called the sweet science for a reason.
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I find wrestling a little boring tbqh but I will probably watch some of it. I don't know what backyard brawl you are watching but MMA is not a bareknuckle sport. If you don't understand BJJ or Muay Thai or Judo or Wrestling that is fine but that doesn't give you the right to say there is no skill involved.
I really don't understand your second paragraph. Are you saying that there is no tough guys off the street who got into boxing? Did you watch 'The Contender'? There are people in the NHL who went undrafted, does that mean they shouldn't be there? There are different skill sets within an organization, just because everyone doesn't have BJJ black belt or is a golden gloves boxer doesn't make them less of a competitor.
As far as technically more difficult, how can you say that someone who has been training BJJ for 15 years isn't as technically sound as someone who has been training boxing for 15 years?
Kimbo Slice is a joke. I am not sitting here defending him. I am defending a sport that I have grown to love over the last 4 or 5 years. That fight was garbage and he should have lost in the second round. He is not fit to headline an event, any event. Gary Shaw (who incidently has a boxing promotion background) took a bodyguard who is struggling to get money to raise his family and lined his pockets. It is BS. Maybe in 2 or 3 years after a lot of cardio and some more time with Randy Couture and Bas Ruuten he might be a legit heavyweight.