This whole "Floyd Mayweather dissing The UFC" pissed me off and I'm also a boxing fan. I was talking to my dad about what Mayweather said and he told me that "Well, that's his opinion".
My dad is ufc fan but he's the typical male of the older generation who thinks that boxing will never die & UFC will never be bigger than boxing. He had the nerve to say that the UFC isn't as big as boxing or bigger even though their ppv events and merchandise sales are ridicolous!
I can't wait till we see the great boxers of our era go against a mixed martial artist under mma rules.
Do you think MMA is or will be bigger than boxing?
First of all Mayweather's opinion is his opinion as your dad said. But Mayweather is one of, if possibly the only boxer around that has the talent to make claims such as he did.
In reality, boxing is and has been in a very sad state for sometime now. The heavyweight division is a joke, the multiple belt orginizations are jokes, there are now five I believe? Stupid, although usually only the WBC, WBA and IBF are recognized as legit belts. There is the WBO but that belt sucks, no one wants it.
Don King is a
huge, massive, problem not the only one, but a giant one, he along with another promoter, can't remember his name are helping to ruin boxing and boxers careers not to mention bankrupting them.
Putting boxing on PPV was a giant mistake, it worked for a little bit, but there were also quality boxers at the time, now? None in the heavyweight division, maybe Klitschko. That's it, with the rest of the few remaining quality boxers all in the lighter weight divisions, which in reality very few people want to watch because everyone wants to see big guys get knocked out.
The few high quiality lighter boxers are past their prime, Jones JR. Hopkins, De La Hoya. Although I am intruiged by the De La Hoya and Mayweather fight, but it's a no brainer, Mayweather is too good for De La Hoya at this point.
As for seeing all the
great boxers of our era, first of all, there aren't many. Using the word great, I would say there are maybe 10 around right now and that includes the few that are past their prime.
But despite that, they are never going to fight MMA rules and MMA fighters are never going to just box. It's a lose, lose situation for both ends. Boxers would get trashed trying to fight MMA fighters and MMA fighters, would get their heads beat into a coma trying to box. Yes there are a few that can throw and have boxing skills, but they haven't soley focused on boxing for the majority of their lives.
It would be interesting and possibly entertaining, but it's never going to happen.
j/k
