hahahaha... this is funny... boxing vs. UFC
WOW... I was reading this article over on CBS's website where a boxing columnist was bashing the UFC. Not only has the UFC passed up boxing, but it has in my opinion almost gone "mainstream". I have been watching the UFC for almost 10 years now. I have trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and a little Mixed Martial Arts with many guys who have fought in little shows here in So. Cal., to huge shows in Tokyo, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. I watch Sports Center on ESPN and they now show clips, and tell us who won the fights on the pay-per view cards. That was unheard of just a few years ago. Many of the big name fighters are signing long term fight deals in the 7-figure range, plus huge endorsement deals with all kinds of mainstream companies.It sucks that this uneducated and ill informed writer has to try to bring the UFC into a column inorder for it to get any recognition. If he wasn't bad mouthing the UFC than I know that I wouldn't have even read the article. After this fight... boxing is going to be as dead as... uhh... dead. I'm not a boxing hater, but I don't follow the sport like I used to. Hell... I can't even name one of the heavyweight champions. I think some Russian dude has a few of them... I dunno, and I'm not gonna spend my awesome googling expertise in looking up something that doesn't matter.
Freeman then equated MMA fighters as, “nothing but thugs and ruffians,” despite the fact that Olympic medalists such as Matt Lindland, Hidehiko Yoshida, Karam Ibrahim, and Rulon Gardner have competed in the sport.
So, from mainstream sports websites to highly-rated daily television series on the biggest sports-themed network in the world, MMA seemingly cannot get an accurate portrayal, regardless of the fact that the sport is regulated and sanctioned by every major state athletic commission in the U.S.
Again it appears that regardless of how far we have come and how much MMA has grown, there is still a long, uphill battle to be fought before it truly becomes recognized as a legitimate sport by those who claim to be the purveyors of sports coverage to mainstream society.
You know what... I'll probably end up watching the boxing match this weekend... my first in many many years. I'll be more excited to see my friend and jiu-jitsu instructor Gabe Ruediger on The Ultimate Fighter tonight on SpikeTV, or my buddy Manny in the WEC on May 12th at the Hard Rock in Vegas, or Chuck Liddell vs. Rampage Jackson on May 26th, or my good friend and jiu-jitsu instructor Javier Vazquez vs. Katsuhiko Nagata at the L.A. Coliseum June 2nd, or my buddy John Alessio in the WEC over at the Hard Rock in Vegas on June 3rd, or my boy Joe Boxer up in San Jose on June 22nd, and you know I'm going to The Ultimate Fighter Finale in Vegas at the Palms on June 23rd to hopefully watch my buddy Gabe "GODZILLA" Ruediger woop some ass along with BJ Penn.
De La Hoya-Mayweather will separate boxing from thuggish UFC
May 2, 2007
By Mike Freeman
CBS SportsLine.com National Columnist
This is what the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather fight, one of the most important events in recent sports history, really means: It's boxing's last stand.
Boxing is fighting for its life, and in some ways the largest obstacle to its rebirth is its greatest competitor -- the worst league ever invented, the UFC. Which means it is good vs. evil, Halle Berry vs. Courtney Love, true sport against the mosh pit of sweat and bloodied skull fractures known as ultimate fighting.
It's up to Oscar and Floyd to get boxing back on the national landscape.
De La Hoya and Mayweather can single-handedly save their sport from deteriorating into dust while simultaneously stopping the advance of the UFC barbarians at the gate, trying to destroy boxing by polluting pay-per-view with their brand of low-brow, ghetto-fabulous hooliganism.
This is it. This is when boxing emerges from its great depression riding the shoulders of De La Hoya and finally strikes a blow to the caged ignorance that is mixed martial arts.
It will happen.
Mixed martial arts will never be as good as boxing on its worst day. Many of the ultimates are nothing but thugs and ruffians. All that league has done is take a few former nightclub bouncers, knuckle crackers and parolees, put on some fancy TV graphics and told them, "Kick the other guy in the nuts."
No skill is required to knee someone in the groin (and it happens despite rules stating it is illegal). I'm kneeing Doyel in the groin now. See, was that difficult?
if you wanna read the rest of the story go to CBS Sportsline n' look up douche bag boxing columnist
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norm
posted by norm at
7:35 AM
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It's too bad this writer thinks of UFC as competition to boxing which only one can survive. If the writer really loved boxing, he would be talking about how much boxing has helped the UFC.
Boxing teaches great hand speed, eye hand coordination, movement, punching, counter-punching, lots of skills that MMA employs.
I think MMA is to boxing as Bruce Lee was to Kung-Fu. Brought in many different styles and put them together, and faced oposition from similar critics in the East.
It would be a shame to see either sport disappear.
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Ryan, at
8:37 AM
Great comparison. I have heard that Bruce Lee was one of the first people to mix different martial arts. His martial art that he developed called Jeet Kune Do was heavily influenced by many different styles, such as western boxing, fencing, and wrestling. He was not stuck with just one style, and adapted and evolved to fit his own need.
Bruce Lee was a bad ass mo'fo!
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norm, at
10:16 AM
Norm,
Have you taken a seminar from Dan Inosanto?
He is one of the few people who Bruce Lee ever gave the authority to teach Jeet Kune Do. The guy is awesome. Even in his 60's he's gotta be one of the fastest guys on the planet. He tells stories about how much faster Danny was in his youth, and still couldn't come close to matching Bruce's speed.
Anyways... Danny also puts on a pretty good seminar if you get a chance to take a JKD class from him, I'd recommend it.
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Ryan, at
12:58 PM
I've never really been interested in the Traditional Martial Arts very much. I do remember seeing Dan in that tv show Fight Science on The Learning Channel last year. He's up there in age, and can still woop some ass.
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norm, at
3:56 PM
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