Why does this fight make fans so hostile/divisive?

[flexpointford]

sportsexual

 

[Son Peyote]

Joined: Saturday

In all seriousness, it's pretty clear that there is tons of passive aggression and verbal sparring between boxing and mma fans not just on this forum, but on social media. Why? Why tie your identity towards either "team boxing" or "team mma"?

As someone who boxed all throughout college and a fan of MMA as well, I've never understood why boxing/mma fans can't see the value in both sports. Especially with guys like Floyd and Conor, both of whom are not only accomplished fighters in their respective sports, but have tons of admirable personality qualities and traits that I think anyone can learn from. In fact for me, both Floyd and Mcgregor are pretty good role models/heroes, barring the antics & trouble they get into outside of the ring.

As someone who's a software dev by day/music producer by night, in my respective fields I always try to implement some of Floyd's consistency and perseverance in my day job-- and I try to take some of Mcgregor's self belief, visualization, and his ability to set doubt aside in the face of "impossible" tasks in my creative endeavors. I think as MMA and Boxing fans, we shouldn't be so quick to defend what we've arbitrarily deemed "our" sport and denigrate the other sport, and we should just sit back and watch a pretty insane spectacle of two dudes with a lot that we can all learn from.

Anyway, my two cents men

 

[aldeniro78]

Two huge cunts fighting each other. It's a polarizing situation.

 

[Draper]

Joined: Saturday

Is this some kind of neckbeard measuring or something?

 

[soulsstealer]

cuz it more fun to shittalk each other than hold hands.

 

[Son Peyote]

Is this some kind of neckbeard measuring or something?

Dance for me boy

 

[shortlefthook]

because theres morons on both sides of the argument, on conors side you have kids who want their cake and to eat it aswell, because not only does conor have a chance, but apparently hes the best thing since slice bread.

on floyds side the boxing purist are completely ignorant to the danger that mcgregor actually posses with his hands, and completely ignore the success he has had with his hands at the highest level of mma.
they act as if a amatuer boxer would ko aldo in the first exchange.

fights like this brings the most morons, because casuals =morons.
i just had a casual tell me that people dont throw jabs in mma because takedowns are the counter...lmao takedowns are the counter for ANY timed strike.
gives me a headache

 

[Shinobi]

I'm not on neither team. I prefer MMA to Boxing, by FAR. But that doesn't mean i have to act retarded and ignore logic. As much as i like Conor, i don't see any reason to believe he's gonna beat Floyd in Floyd's specialty, just like Floyd wouldn't beat Conor in his specialty. Why is this so difficult to understand for certain people? Can Conor win? For sure! But why are certain people so convinced he's going to?Based on what? MMA fights? Give me a break.

 

[FaTaL FaTaL]

because theres morons on both sides of the argument, on conors side you have kids who want their cake and to eat it aswell, because not only does conor have a chance, but apparently hes the best thing since slice bread.

on floyds side the boxing purist are completely ignorant to the danger that mcgregor actually posses with his hands, and completely ignore the success he has had with his hands at the highest level of mma.
they act as if a amatuer boxer would ko aldo in the first exchange.

fights like this brings the most morons, because casuals =morons.
i just had a casual tell me that people dont throw jabs in mma because takedowns are the counter...lmao takedowns are the counter for ANY timed strike.
gives me a headache

What aldo did was the most amateurish horrendous thing anybody could of done to a counterpunching lefty. You don't throw a haymaker like that. Any southpaw would of knocked him out

Aldo is a idiot by the way

 

[Turkleton]

What aldo did was the most amateurish horrendous thing anybody could of done to a counterpunching lefty. You don't throw a haymaker like that. Any southpaw would of knocked him out

Aldo is a idiot by the way

Aldo should have better asked some sherdoggers for advice before the fight

 

[Hater Hater]

In all seriousness, it's pretty clear that there is tons of passive aggression and verbal sparring between boxing and mma fans not just on this forum, but on social media. Why? Why tie your identity towards either "team boxing" or "team mma"?

As someone who boxed all throughout college and a fan of MMA as well, I've never understood why boxing/mma fans can't see the value in both sports. Especially with guys like Floyd and Conor, both of whom are not only accomplished fighters in their respective sports, but have tons of admirable personality qualities and traits that I think anyone can learn from. In fact for me, both Floyd and Mcgregor are pretty good role models/heroes, barring the antics & trouble they get into outside of the ring.

As someone who's a software dev by day/music producer by night, in my respective fields I always try to implement some of Floyd's consistency and perseverance in my day job-- and I try to take some of Mcgregor's self belief, visualization, and his ability to set doubt aside in the face of "impossible" tasks in my creative endeavors. I think as MMA and Boxing fans, we shouldn't be so quick to defend what we've arbitrarily deemed "our" sport and denigrate the other sport, and we should just sit back and watch a pretty insane spectacle of two dudes with a lot that we can all learn from.

Anyway, my two cents men

I am sorry man, you have the wrong forum. Actually wrong communication medium to be more precise. This isn't the place for rational thinking. Please see yourself off of the internet.

I believe it boils down to a holdover of instinctual tribalism. It's similar to why people are so fanatical about a particular sports team. There is not much of a rational reason for hoping for a particular team in most cases except people like to pick a side they want to be associated with and then believe the prosperity of that side will also mean prosperity for them. That is also my uneducated opinion for the existence of nationalism and racism. Ironically, often what benefits group a person is associated with does not benefit the person. Trickle down economy for example.

 

[Leonard Haid]

In all seriousness, it's pretty clear that there is tons of passive aggression and verbal sparring between boxing and mma fans not just on this forum, but on social media. Why? Why tie your identity towards either "team boxing" or "team mma"?

As someone who boxed all throughout college and a fan of MMA as well, I've never understood why boxing/mma fans can't see the value in both sports. Especially with guys like Floyd and Conor, both of whom are not only accomplished fighters in their respective sports, but have tons of admirable personality qualities and traits that I think anyone can learn from. In fact for me, both Floyd and Mcgregor are pretty good role models/heroes, barring the antics & trouble they get into outside of the ring.

As someone who's a software dev by day/music producer by night, in my respective fields I always try to implement some of Floyd's consistency and perseverance in my day job-- and I try to take some of Mcgregor's self belief, visualization, and his ability to set doubt aside in the face of "impossible" tasks in my creative endeavors. I think as MMA and Boxing fans, we shouldn't be so quick to defend what we've arbitrarily deemed "our" sport and denigrate the other sport, and we should just sit back and watch a pretty insane spectacle of two dudes with a lot that we can all learn from.

Anyway, my two cents men

They type who would get hostile over this silliness were hostile anyway. Now hooray they have another outlet for their anger.