I don't think boxing is going anywhere. They need new stars to rise up and it will happen eventually. Guys like GGG are leading the way although they get more attention overseas. There are over 1,300 middleweights ranked on Box-Rec right now. That's one weight class with nearly 3x the number of fighters in the UFC total. Boxing will always be the predominant combat sport. Generally speaking MMA and the UFC are on the decline from where they were five years ago although the company is worth more (which says something about the way the UFC does it's business).
Well. My hope is that their will be a new generation of boxers in a given range of weight classes (whether light middle or heavyweight) Similar to the 80's with Duran, Hearns, Pryor, Arguello, Hagler and Leonard. You can have all the best fighters in the world but they need to be able to draw box office. They are trying to build GGG up right now and yes he's very good, but the layman says, "well, who has he fought?" He needs another adversary(s) to identify with the public.
Nice! Nothing against Rousey, but the hype surrounding her was so out of hand...like she was the most outstanding person to every walk the planet.
when you're spoon fed opponents, you can look invincible. her last opponent (last night), obviously had a skill set that most if not all of her previous opponents didn't have. I'm not surprised that she lost to someone who was a boxer and a kick boxer. I also don't give a shit about it.
I care because it will be fun to hear local Vegas sports talk radio discuss it. That shit is huge here.
His punishments.... They say it's ok to beat up Black women... I want someone to WHOOP his ass SO BAD...
It's all about the hype. Remember Kimbo Slice, he wasn't even that good, had only had a few matches and when he lost to Seth Petrazelli, he announcer acted like he was having a stroke saying "one of the most incredible upsets in the history of mixed martial arts." Holly Holm was 10-0 in MMA Rousey was 12-0. But Rousey had such a huge hype machine behind her, with guys like Joe Rogan saying she could be a male MMA fighter in her weight class.
This fight was arranged to condition us for the approaching Hillary Clinton victory. It's in the bag now.
Seems Rousey is a bit of a sore loser. The fighters are supposed to stay after for post game interview, but Rousey just took off. To be fair, maybe it was because she had to go to the hospital, but the talk is Dana expected her to stay and she ducked out. Also, why not congratulate your opponent? She's a poor sport and wouldn't even touch gloves before the fight.
She is a poor sport but she was taken to hospital to have plastic surgery on her split bottom lip. Hard to say if she would've been able to attend the PFP with a serious mouth injury but Robbie Lawler did, so...
