Diablo25 wrote:pk500 wrote:Diablo25 wrote:UFC sucks.
Word. And boxing is FAR more violent than UFC. Boxers take repeated blows to the head, many more than UFC fighters. Plus, as Holm proved last night, the hardest punchers in the world are boxers, not MMA fighters.
I'll double down on Bill's accurate proclamation: UFC really sucks. Boxing forever.
Just my opinion but boxing is exponentially more entertaining and the more pure of the two. To each his own.
And UFC sucks.
You know, I held this sentiment for a long time. But watching Conor McGregor fight one night while channel surfing got me a little interested. So I just started watching fights now and then on Foz Sports, and I feel a lot differently now.
For one, arguing which sport is more violent is kind of pointless to me. It's not the violence in the sports that interests me, but the strategy involved to avoid or inflict that pain. Both sports reward strategy and execution over brute force. So arguing that boring is more violent has zero impact on whether I find it more enjoyable.
In fact, what I found was that the vast array of styles in MMA really forces the fighters to be much more strategic in their avoidance of their opponents strength and their weakness. Once I started understanding some of the strategy, MMA felt like a million more times intense, as a simple mistake could get on in a lot of trouble. But escaping trouble is just as much of an art form.
If you had asked me two years ago, I would have said MMA sucks and lamented the decline of boxing. I'm still not a devoted fight fan of either sport, but I I will get sucked into watching a lot of UFC now when channel surfing. The more I watch, the more fascinating I find it.
The other part of this is that UFC is filled with collegiate wrestlers and an entire array of martial arts experts in addition to some former boxers. There is no doubt in my mind that the MMA is filled with far more intelligent athletes than boxing, on the whole. The sport gets a really bad rap because of the horrific way it began, when Ultimate Fighting was less sport and more bloodsport spectacle. But it is a completely different beast today.
That said, as much as I tried to enjoy the UFC game by EA, it was too crazy hard to master. I'll take a boing game over it in a heartbeat. But I will still give UFC 2 a shot. When the first game came out, I'm not sure I could name a single fighter. Now I have an interest in watching several guys and women.
As for Holm's win over Rousey, it was a textbook example of strategy over brute force, and Rousey was an Olympic medalist in Judo. Bit I think Rousey was starting to to coast and overestimated her ability because the media and everyone around her was feeding her that view. I'm not saying the wasn't fit and hadn't trained hard. But her inability to adjust means she failed to train for contingencies. She had gotten too used to winning on her terms, and Holm changed those terms violently.