So, boxing.

[TheCoolinator]

I do respect the participants and acknowledge the skill therein.

I guess that's where we differ......MMA lacks skill, finesse, and basic sportsmanship. People are dumb enough, they don't need more senseless and useless violence injected into their ever growing entertainment schedules. At least boxing had some normal rules and a sense of pride. MMA is nothing more then the physical manifestation of the decay within our society.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by TheCoolinator

I guess that's where we differ......MMA lacks skill, finesse, and basic sportsmanship. People are dumb enough, they don't need more senseless and useless violence injected into their ever growing entertainment schedules. At least boxing had some normal rules and a sense of pride. MMA is nothing more then the physical manifestation of the decay within our society.

YEAH WELL I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE GET THEIR EAR BITTEN OFF IN A MMA FIGHT.

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Sam

YEAH WELL I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE GET THEIR EAR BITTEN OFF IN A MMA FIGHT.

Sam wins the internet!

[Dimnos]

Originally Posted by TheCoolinator

The throwing fights debate is irrelevant to the conversation. We are discussing how MMA is a sloppy step back in the history of human civilization. Putting two grown men in a cage and having a contest where they choke, knee, stomp, bash, and attempt to break each others limbs is devolution in my honest opinion.......

Originally Posted by MattJack

Throwing fights aside, how is it backwards in the history of human civilization? They aren't fighting for blood or their lives, so don't try to equate this to some Rome gladiator bullshi* you saw with Russell Crowe. It is a test of wills and techniques.

It is just so ironic that you find it OK for two guys to beat the hell out of each others' skulls until one goes unconscious, but submissions and kicking is completely out of the question.

Originally Posted by Sam

YEAH WELL I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE GET THEIR EAR BITTEN OFF IN A MMA FIGHT.

This is all I read of this thread. I feel I have seen all pertanent info.

[Fathom Zero]

Originally Posted by TheCoolinator

I guess that's where we differ......MMA lacks skill, finesse, and basic sportsmanship. People are dumb enough, they don't need more senseless and useless violence injected into their ever growing entertainment schedules. At least boxing had some normal rules and a sense of pride. MMA is nothing more then the physical manifestation of the decay within our society.

That's funny because in most interviews looking at a retired boxer, they're retarded mush-mouths where veteran MMA guys going on twenty years and still fighting are talking about their economy of motion.

Yeah, Jeet Kune Do is so fucking savage in comparison to boxing. I'm tired of that bullshit that boxing is more sophisticated and gentlemanly. YOU'RE PUTTING YOUR FIST INTO ANOTHER PERSON OVER AND OVER.