During the preceding few months MMA competitions like the Ultimate Fighting Championship have been making weighty ground over Regular boxing, proof to that is the fact that last year Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view competitions raised more capital than boxing fixtures. Boxing marketers and Television commentators are consistently attacking Mixed Martial Arts which proves their concern with the meteoric climbing of Mixed Martial Arts competitions not only in the US but all over the globe.
Regular boxing has been on the mainstream for as long as I can recall with consummate warriors like Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, and Marvin Hagler not to forget the supreme like Cassius Clay, Joe Louis and many alternatives who made regular boxing one of the most illustrious attractions there is.
I’m a massive regular boxing follower myself but inappropriately over the last 5 years it has begun to lose the bewitchment and the prestige that alone made regular boxing a sport to look at. I cannot recall how many evenings I kept up till 4 or 5 in the crack of dawn waiting to see Lewis fight.
that’s one of the greatest problems with regular boxing nowadays there isn’t many must watch fighters like before. Ask a 20 year old these days who is their preferred prizefighter; I’d be stunned if they knew any. You see, boxing is deprived of superstar’s and idols are what amass income in boxing.
Now go and ask the very same twenty year who is their preferred MMA fighter and I bet he will say: “From UFC or Strikeforce, in what division?”
in the initial period Mixed Martial Arts fixtures were regarded brutish and no TV station wanted to broadcast its fights. So what made them change their thinking? What changes everything is sports these days, CASH.
When it all started the only way to look at Ultimate Fighting Championship fights was by renting VHS tapes now you have television channels devoted categorically for Mma and the bigger fights can only be viewed on pay and watch. Mma merchandising power has grown excessively and over taken regular boxing, a reason it has attained so much acknowledgment of late.
There is now a television show called The Ultimate Fighter that is in its thirteenth version, where beginner Mixed Martial Arts warriors fight to become professional. Accordingly the fact that many fighting in Ultimate Fighting Championship Nowadays have appeared arrived out of this reality show.
Even celebrated boxing gear companies are making Mixed Martial Arts equipment which is further confirmation of the promotion power Mma contains these days. Just for the register when Dana White acquired the Ultimate Fighting Championship from the Gracie Family it was worth 2 million US dollars now it is a two billion dollar concern.
But that is not the only reason Mma is more demanded than regular boxing these days. MMA’s crowd consist in its majority, of a crop that grew up playing computer games like Street Fighter, Tekken and several other battling games where characters had different fighting styles which is the basis of Mma.
This era is also more dynamic with great thirst for action and Mixed Martial Arts events administer just that. While regular boxing can be reduced to rather uninteresting at times, twelve rounds without a knock down can be drab to say the least.
with all that stated I depart with the point: Is Mma Killing Boxing?