Is the boxing community anti mixed martial arts?

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yes, i hate mma

Most boxing communities i have seen don’t really care much about MMA simply because it’s the equivalent of talking about baseball in a football forum. now this boxing forum here on Yahoo answer’s they are anti-mma for the most part. me personally, i don’t hate mma, i just prefer boxing that’s all.

I dont know i live in quad-cities and we have pat miletich ufc/mma camp based out of bettendorf and i catch the mma guys watching boxing all the time, checking who won fights and results. i watch boxing 80% of the time cause of hbo and i’am a true fan, but i’ll watch the next ufc card at a bar(quinton jackson vs wanderlei silva) that will be a great fight for mma, i just think ufc sucks, pride fc was 100x better. but I’am boxing fan for life son! boxers and boxing fan’s have no need to watch or care for mma, what can they learn from it, um nothing you can only punch in boxing. but mma fighter are not even on the same level as a boxer in striking, thats why mma fighter watch boxing in my area. if i had a choice one or the other i’ll choose the sweet science.

consider this- “those who couldn’t box, fight. those who couldn’t fight, wrestle.”

I personally am offended by MMA. It’s an affront to the many disciplines of fighting. It’s about as goofy as mixing football, baseball and basketball together into some contrived form of sport.

MMA takes all the disciplines of boxing, roman-greco wrestling, karate (in all its forms) and turns it into 2 guys with tattoos basically dry humping each other on the floor of an 8-sided cage. There is a sweet science and savage beauty too all the individual disciplines of fighting. When you throw it all together, you get a horrible mix-mash. It’s like taking all the finest foods, tossing them into a blender and thinking you have the ultimate delicious meal. Nope, you got a mess. The MMA fans don’t understand that. They want to see grown men get their brains blasted out and don’t care how it happens. They enjoy it, but it’s not really a sport.

I think MMA is very crude. It seems like a big farce to me. You get the commentators quoting things like: “Will the Brazilian Jujitsu expert be able to overcome the wrestler’s floor-work?”. It’s like a kid asking: “What would win in a fight, a bear or a tiger?” Like Elmer said, there is no constant in it. In boxing you know where you stand as there is only one discipline and comparisons can be easily made due to the differing styles of the fighters. The mishmash of MMA doesn’t easily allow this. I don’t hate MMA, it just doesn’t do anything for me, i ignore it, it ignores me.

As A Martial Artist for 20 Years and As An Instructor, I am deeply offended by Mixed Martial Arts, UFC, and All Cage Fights, There Sport! Not Martial Arts, These so called MMA Fighters Are Nothing but a bunch of tough Bruce Lee Wannabe’s. That is to add I have the upmost respect for Sifu Bruce. But I feel his teachings and philosophy about martial arts, has been so badly misinterpreted by MMA, UFC, and all Cage Fighters, Including Many Many Many Martial Artists, That It’s hard to seperate the truth from ficton. I’m very disappointed in the martial arts community for not stepping up and calling what MMA, UFC, and Cage Fights Really and Truly Are!!! Moden Day Gladiator Sport!!!

Corrections, I’ve been a Martial Artist For Over 20 Years About.

Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do has Been Misrepresented as he actually intended it to be.

Mixed Martial Arts, UFC, Cage Fights Are All Basically The Same Thing.

MMA, Cage Fights, UFC: Are Not Scientific!!!
It Doesn’t take someone with no brains to know how to throw a punch!!!

And:

I would place my money on a Traditional Martial Artist, Boxer, Wrestler, or Bouncer, against any MMA, UFC, or Cage Fighter Any Day!!! (No that’s not an actual bet:- I’m broke haha)