Never buying another Ward PPV ever again

PUO3 said:
Ward doesnt give a shit who likes him and who doesnt. Hes cashing big checks every fight regardless.
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I was shocked he was getting that much money. Shocked. It's great that he is, though. I figured he was going to make around $2 million.
 
How does Ward get away with all those dirty tactics? Stiff arming, leading with the head, clinching all the time and dirty boxing and more. I got frustrated as fuk just from watching it. I can imagine how frustrating it is to fight him. Kovalev should have played a dirty game like Ward did. He should have followed through with the elbow when throwing his hooks from the clinch; should have lead in with his head, and dirty boxed, low blows, back of the head, etc.

Will never buy a Ward fight ever. The guy is not a boxer, he can fight but he cannot box. Had it been a proper boxing match Kovalev would have won by KO.
 
PUO3 said:
Boxing is dying so much that MMA's biggest star begged for a boxing fight. Boxing is dying so much that it is stacked with amazing matchups and the purses far exceed MMA.

Oh.
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Boxing is easier to watch and understand.To appreciate MMA it take familiarity with all the dimensions of the real fight, not just the punches. Give it some time, people will become more familiar with grappling and kick boxing and then boxing will slowly die.
 
meauneau said:
Boxing is easier to watch and understand.To appreciate MMA it take familiarity with all the dimensions of the real fight, not just the punches. Give it some time, people will become more familiar with grappling and kick boxing and then boxing will slowly die.
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No, it wont. Lol @ mma being hard to grasp.
 
meauneau said:
Boxing is easier to watch and understand.To appreciate MMA it take familiarity with all the dimensions of the real fight, not just the punches. Give it some time, people will become more familiar with grappling and kick boxing and then boxing will slowly die.
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meauneau said:
Boxing is easier to watch and understand.To appreciate MMA it take familiarity with all the dimensions of the real fight, not just the punches. Give it some time, people will become more familiar with grappling and kick boxing and then boxing will slowly die.
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If boxing is easier to watch and understand that's a good reason why it will always be with us.

People will not bother to become familiar with grappling. The sport is as niche as it gets. Most grapplers know this and they're okay with it.

Kickboxing just can't seem to stir up much interest in North America. It's a shame because it's fun to watch.
 
ccm22 said:
If boxing is easier to watch and understand that's a good reason why it will always be with us.

People will not bother to become familiar with grappling. The sport is as niche as it gets. Most grapplers know this and they're okay with it.

Kickboxing just can't seem to stir up much interest in North America. It's a shame because it's fun to watch.
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Boxing is easier to watch, right and easier to believe that you understand it. It doesn't require changing from one plane of fighting to another as in MMA. So it is simpler to follow. But as with all games, people don't always want easy games or simple and unchallenging ones. It gets borring. So MMA is the new game that will take over.

Now, just like in boxing where fans think they know or understand (explicit knowledge rather than tacit knowledge) boxing by watching it so too MMA fans with think they know and understand MMA. All they need is more exposure.
 
I think boxing takes far more education to understand. Most of what's happening is pretty subtle unless you're watching a squash match like Braidtree-Hague.

And lol @ OP was for spending $65 on this.
 
JSN said:
I think boxing takes far more education to understand. Most of what's happening is pretty subtle unless you're watching a squash match like Braidtree-Hague.

And lol @ OP was for spending $65 on this.
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What kind of education does it take?

The same argument could be made for MMA. In fact, since boxing is an element of the set of all disciplines that make MMA it follows that MMA takes more education and has more subtlety than boxing.
 
AndleMyRiddum said:
Cliffs:

- No Purse for Kova
- Low Blow City all day and all time
- Shit judges
- much more
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Guess you will post a thread saying the same after Mayweather murks Conor then when GGG destroys he red head Canelo
 
meauneau said:
What kind of education does it take?

The same argument could be made for MMA. In fact, since boxing is an element of the set of all disciplines that make MMA it follows that MMA takes more education and has more subtlety than boxing.
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Harvard education.

Wouldn't you suppose that the smaller subset of techniques that are available, the more people master those what actually does happen will gen to be more subtle?
 
meauneau said:
What kind of education does it take?

The same argument could be made for MMA. In fact, since boxing is an element of the set of all disciplines that make MMA it follows that MMA takes more education and has more subtlety than boxing.
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Feel free to stop by at some point and actually cap some fights.
 
meauneau said:
What kind of education does it take?

The same argument could be made for MMA. In fact, since boxing is an element of the set of all disciplines that make MMA it follows that MMA takes more education and has more subtlety than boxing.
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Mma borrows small portions of boxing , and it shows but just like college wrestling, world judo and boxing it takes far more knowledge to understand a pure sport
 
How was there no purse for him, was it winner take all?
 
JSN said:
Harvard education.

Wouldn't you suppose that the smaller subset of techniques that are available, the more people master those what actually does happen will gen to be more subtle?
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But if boxing is a subset of MMA then it cannot have more subtlety than set to which it belongs. All elements of the set of boxing are elements of the power set of MMA which also has the subset of all grappling techniques with all the subtlety etc.
 
Marc A said:
Mma borrows small portions of boxing , and it shows but just like college wrestling, world judo and boxing it takes far more knowledge to understand a pure sport
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It could take far more to develop a well rounded game. Also, remember that we are not comparing particular representatives of boxing vs that of MMA. We are making an abstract comparison of the set of boxing, with all its elements, vs the set of MMA, which is the power set of the set of boxing. This entails that MMA requires more education and has more subtlety than the set boxing. Whether some particular persons uses all or some of the elements of the set of boxing is irrelevant.
 
meauneau said:
But if boxing is a subset of MMA then it cannot have more subtlety than set to which it belongs. All elements of the set of boxing are elements of the power set of MMA which also has the subset of all grappling techniques with all the subtlety etc.
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huh? in theory you could have more subtle techniques in mma. In practice, you rarely see that. A perfect example is Ronda Rousey. She didn't have to feint, and hand fight a bunch to hit a trip in MMA like she did in judo. She just dumped bitches who didn't know what what coming at them.
 
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