Will boxing overcome the mma onslaught?
955255
i want to see the best fighters, and the better fighters are going to do mma.  It's tough watching boxing when you know the best boxers probably would'nt have a chance in a cage, so my money will never go to see 2 guys pound each other for 12 rounds then have a decision go to crooked judges.
918066
The number and variance of the types of injuries in MMA fighting, by far, outweight boxing. And MMA only get 3 5-minute rounds to do it in, unlike boxing. Do they fight harder? No doubt.
277038
Due to boxing politics, its unlikely that Manny Pacquiao could ever win all the titles.\n\nThis particular fight is going to be very difficult for him. Marco Antonio Barrera will be coming into the fight much better prepared than in their last matchup. The better conditioning will ensure that he goes the distance and gets much more offense in than during their November 2003 bout. Barrera does have the skills to beat Pacquiao if he can get to 100%. If he's not in top shape, though, we could see a repeat of Pacquiao's heavy hands and southpaw style leading him to victory.
881703
It's fist fighting with gloves on.  Bouts are divided into rounds.  The number of rounds depends on the type of fight (pro or amateur). No hitting below the belt, no hitting when someone is down, no kicking, no head butting.  Can be won by scoring of the judges (they decide who wins each round, the one who wins the most rounds wins) or by knockout (which means that a person is hit so hard that they don't return to the fight within the count of the referee).  In some ways it is one of the purest sports but in other ways it much more regulated than other sports (state commissions, licenses required to participate, doctors can stop a fight, etc).
855836
Many boxers have died in the ring. Athletes have died in just about any sport you can think of. The death of Doo Koo Kim brought tons of media attention to "dying in the ring" in the early to mid 80s. A championship fight ended sometime during the past year or two with the "champ" being hospitalized and later he died. \n\nSomeone mentioned that 50 boxers died in the last 35yrs, I'm curious where they found that piece of info. Could you please post the url for the site where it gave the figures on number of deaths attributed to boxing, thanks. \n\nAnd sportslvr45 you mentioned you were a light-heavyweight with an impressive record of 60-2, tell me what organization/s did you fight under? Are you still fighting? If not why did you stop? Also can you describe a "basic" boxing stance and how I would get into that stance? Why is the "boxing stance" so important sportslvr45 thanks I anxiously await your answer. Oh and BTW sportslvr there is a "check spelling" link just thought you'd like to know, had I not shared it would way heavy on my conscience and your unconsence.
927582
Manny Pacquiao will be the one to win the battle....he already proved that in the last fight...sorry but this is the truth!!!!!!..see you at the ringside...
714366
Between NHL, NBA, NFL, MLB, NASCAR, golf, tennis, etc. etc. they don't have much time for a "new" sport. Plus there is the fact that the UFC has some proprietary elements which tend to delegitimize it. The octagon cage is trademarked, the organization lacks transparency, etc. Rightly or wrongly, that puts it in the same league as Slam ball or American Gladiators in eyes of mainstream sports journalists. If there was an independent international sanctioning/ranking body for all MMA promotions that would help, but I doubt that is going to happen.
870401
Fighting is like everything else man. It takes practice. Go to a boxingg gym and watch people. Punch the bag around. Get stronger and quicker.
486734
It's really hard to say I remember a fighter in the late 70's who was a light puncher yet he had a mishap outside the ring and broke a guys jaw, one of the Viuret brothers.  Then there is a guy who fought Emile Griffith and he said he hit him the hardest.  The same fighter who had a controversial fight with Joey Giardello.  Mike Tyson when he was hot could hit hard.  Roberto Duran in his prime, even years later, flooring Iran Barkley to win the middleweight title.  Thomas Hearns, Joe Louis, and even classy boxer punchers like Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard and Mohamed Ali.  I'm sorry i really have no favourites.  The rock doesn't take a backward step and George Foreman is up there.  There are so many great fighters its just very subjective and depends entirely on the individual and their opponents, and a personal preference.
1117635
A couple years ago Oleg Maskev knocked Hasim Rahman out of the ring in the 10th round.  Theyre fighting each other again this fall, the rematch should be interesting.
512514
From Nigel Collins, editor-in-chief of Ring Magazine, opined that the term "ring" meant that during the early fights, spectators formed a "ring" around the boxers. But this led to problems with the spectators occasionally jumping into the fray.  So they eventially had to encircle the fighters with ropes.  Naturally, it was easiest to create a square, or rectangle, with four posts in the corners.  Eventially, the fighting surface became a heavy tensioned canvas and was raised off the floor.  But the term "ring" has kept on.\n\nCollins' summary here:\n\nhttp://espn.go.com/magazine/vol3no26answerguy.html
1122790
It's a possibility. The larger fighter has a natural advantage and almost always wins. The only real obstacle I see is Wladimir Klitschko, which would be a great matchup.\n\nThe biggest problem, though, would be unifying the alphabet belts since most boxing organizations will not even rank someone who has a title from one of the other organizations (Valuev has the WBA title). The only way unification bouts could be made would be if there was enough interest and enough money in a fight for the organizations to decide to sanction it. This is especially difficult since most people think of Valuev as being slow with nothing in his arsenal other than the jab. Nikolai definitely needs to get on tv first (he's only been shown on pay-per-view here in the States) and have an exciting enough bout to get the public's attention. Then he might get a shot.
506775
you would most likely have non boxing people in positions to make important decisions for the sport and this is most likely a bad thing. Although fresh perspectives are often nice, there may be a bit of a decrease in the voice of those who are actually in the know so to speak. Also there is the threat that we might regress to the mean in terms of the good state commissions. While many states are likely to have better commission work through a federal commission there are states that probably will have the quality of their work watered down as a result of what would most likely be an increasing bueracracy. Also theres a likelyhood that things will fall through the cracks. The prospect of dealing with a nationwide commission is going to make small time fight cards very difficult to run properly by all the codes because of the sheer volume of fight cards that will need to be dealt with.
946586
here is a hint: DONT!!!!!!!! boxing is a dying sport and in five years will have as much notice as the professional rugby league does... none instead take tae kwon do for the next ten years and try yer luck with ultimate fighting
87128
The full fight card:\n\n"Ferocious" Fernando Vargas vs. "Sugar" Shane Mosley\nJhonny Gonzalez vs. Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson\nCalvin Brock vs. Zuri Lawrence\n\nNone of these look to be early round knockouts, so it'll almost definitely be longer than two hours. If you're going to pay for it, you might as well get your money's worth.
1158695
The thing about MMA is that one lucky punch or kick can knock anyone out. A well trained MMA fighter will win 90% of the time (if not more often) but can be caught with a lucky shot that will end the fight. Matt Hughes has the most weapons, offensively and defensively, in the UFC today to be considered the closest thing to an ultimate fighter.
416966
totally. i've followed and trained in mma for the last ten years and all this sport has done is grown, especially since spike tv has aired the TUF series (season 3 begins thurs night)which has introduced the sport to a ton of people who had probably never heard of it before.mma was originally given a bad rap from ignorant people who nothing of the sport.they called it barbaric and inhumane. I think nowadays people are realizing that this is simply not true. in fact there have been over 4500 deaths in sanctioned boxing events and only 1 in the history of sanctioned mma.In my opinion mma requires alot more skill than boxing and its a heck of alot more exciting to watch. So yeah, give it a few more years and i think it will definately be more popular than boxing.