"Boxing is not fighting, we all have to identify that. You put gloves on two guys and they dumb down their version of combative skills to overcome each other. Boxing is a performance, it's a dumbed-down version of fighting. He (Paul) is not a real fighter. If he wants a real fight, he can step in the game with four ounce gloves and we can do business. But that's not the case," said Luke Rockhold.
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10-04-2021, 02:37 PM #1Generation X Capitalist
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"Boxing is not fighting. It's a performance. It's a dumbed-down version of fighting."
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10-04-2021, 02:43 PM #2Registered User
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We need to bring back bare knuckle street fighting. Anything goes, even crackin yer opponent over the head with a bottle.
That guy on the right looks like a nancy. This the WWE or boxing?
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10-04-2021, 02:57 PM #3Generation X Capitalist
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no. mixed martial arts.Originally Posted by redmelly
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10-04-2021, 02:58 PM #4Registered User
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Depends on how good your takedown Defense is, Luke should know that.
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10-04-2021, 03:06 PM #5Registered User
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Legal and sanctioned bare knuckle fighting is becoming a thing. When Paige VanZant announced she was competing in the league fanboys cried that she shouldn’t be allowed to fight in the women’s bare knuckle division because she has a pretty face and what if it gets bustedOriginally Posted by redmelly
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10-05-2021, 06:04 AM #6WOATbrah of peace :)
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says the guy who has some pretty bad boxing
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10-05-2021, 06:16 AM #7Registered User
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As a former boxer and MMA cornerman, I would agree, neither is fighting. Both are sport. That's fair. Only fighting is fighting. Luke Rockhold is calling out the biggest paycheck he thinks he can get and a website used the biggest name to get a click and a clickbait level message board thread drew me in.
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10-05-2021, 08:02 AM #8Black Lives Matter
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lol
MMA stans are like "boxing is a controlled combat sport with rules, its not real fighting. Our controlled combat sport with our rules is real fighting."
So is all MMA real fighting or just specific ones like UFC? Is kickboxing? at what point do you draw the line
Theres bare knuckle guys saying MMA isnt real fighting because real fights dont have gloves.
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10-05-2021, 08:34 AM #9Banned
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This, great kicks and top game but he's been finished by hands a lot.Originally Posted by sooby
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10-06-2021, 02:54 PM #10Generation X Capitalist
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Is there no dedicated Boxing Section in Misc.? Not that I want one, I'm just kind of surprised. Dying or Dead Sport?
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10-06-2021, 02:58 PM #11Registered User
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I’m like the one remaining mma forum og who posted here from the day it was created... and boxing has always been discussed here as far as I can remember. The sports section probably does too. But I never go there. I’m not the biggest fan of team based sports.
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10-06-2021, 05:10 PM #12Generation X Capitalist
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I also looked in the Sports Section for any Boxing discussion. I saw NONE despite the upcoming Fury vs. Wilder 3 fight which I think is a joke and a hyped up money grab.Originally Posted by Deathstroke
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10-07-2021, 03:06 AM #13Registered User
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It's not a dead or dying sport there were 70,000 people in the UK 2 weeks ago for AJ vs Usyk and it looked like the superbowl and probably did close to 2 million PPV's there.Originally Posted by GordonXXX
By the way if you are any self respecting combat sports fan you should be paying attention to Usyk as his recent run of form is the best of any combat sports athlete currently competing.
Fury vs Wilder 3 is a fight that is only happening because a court order forced a contractual cause, it should have happened a year ago but C19 put paid to that. Also Fury is the headline in that fight but due to travel restrictions the 1000s of brits who would be flooding Vegas can't get there.
It'll still make loads of money and sets up the winner for a unification super fight.
The main issue for boxing from a USA standpoint is most of the top fighters on the sport are currently not American, and the top American guys are all with PBC who are super political and don't match their top fighters against the best, so they fly under the radar, oh and they have no personality those American PBC guys.
Anyway boxing is in very healthy form right now. It's lacking a little bit for "characters", America aren't doing great at it and it's not as condensed as the UFC, but it's extremely healthy internationally and America will come back into it at some point, they need a dominant heavyweight champ, and everyone knew Wilder ain't it.
Boxing isn't serialized like the UFC is, and made easy for casual fans to watch it and follow along like a football league in episodic format, boxing requires an attention span and regrettably a bit too much research to keep up with.
As for luke Rock hold, we'll Mr Rockhold, considering as your career earnings before tax are less than the top boxers get PER fight, maybe you should have gotten into the "dumbed down" version of fighting, but I fear you never had the talent required to do so, so here we are.
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10-09-2021, 11:21 AM #14Registered User
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not real fighting…ok..
why is it always the MMA casuals who disrespect boxing? go mess with a pro boxer on the streets and tell me how it goes for you..
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10-09-2021, 02:14 PM #15Generation X Capitalist
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It was Luke Rockhold who said it and he would absolutely destroy any pro boxer in a street fight.Originally Posted by HtotheOV
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10-09-2021, 02:22 PM #16Registered User
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I personally wouldn’t mess with any pro boxer or mma fighter just because I prefer one over the other as a fan... that would be retarded as it is to suggest it in the first place lol. That said a pro mixed martial artist vs. a pro boxer? On the streets? Pro mma fighter by arm bar.
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10-09-2021, 10:17 PM #17Registered User
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neither sport is "real fighting" but mma is closer to real fighting than boxing because the more weapons you have, the closer you are to real fighting
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10-09-2021, 10:22 PM #18Registered User
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I wonder if Mr Rock hold just watched Wilder vs Fury 3
Not real fighting?
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10-09-2021, 10:46 PM #19
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10-09-2021, 10:49 PM #20Texas Crew
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Nothing is real fighting unless it’s “Rough and tumble” then.
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10-10-2021, 12:08 AM #21
It isn't real fighting unless you both are completely naked, down in a pit with your balls swinging all over the place. Everything goes. Except hair pulling. That's gay.
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