sakurob
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 Posted: 28 May 2007 02:30 PM Post subject: Quinton "Rampage" Jackson new LHW champ..... |
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A world unification is coming to the LHW division and soon it will be every division to find out who in fact the best LHW is on the face of the earth. To bad boxing can't model this............. 
Boxing is part of the equation still as is Muay Tai, submission grappling, wrestling,ie;(greco,freestyle,folkstyle). 
I'll preach it and preach it...I think its more of the passion I have for the sport, or sports MMA is actually multiple sports......I want my comments to be well, well, documented when this sport reaches incredible heights. Soon you'll see children and kids training MMA and I mean tactics and techniques that will help them win fights in actual amateur competitions with the sole purpose of turning pro. Just like you see fathers taking their sons to the baseball park and pitching or hitting balls to them in hopes of one day becoming pro, you'll see the same for MMA. Yes,I will be one of those fathers, if my son decides to follow in those footsteps. MMA will soon entrench itself this way mark my words. El Christ says he gonna start training MMA so he can tap people out over the internet.......... 
here's a snip from a BOXING website.....
Bigger than the NBA. Bigger than the Indy 500. Bigger than NASCAR.
ESPN's capitulation on promoting "ultimate fighting" (MMA) this past week was a growing sign that they see a future for the sport and MMA-type programming on its network. It pulls in sexy demographics (both men and women 18-34 with disposable income) that boxing dreams but cannot achieve in 2007. The beneficiary of the 'MMA boom' is UFC and not anyone else in the MMA industry. Make no mistake about it, UFC is the only winner here. "Ultimate Fighting" is a proprietary term trademarked by UFC and is said by every media joe blow in America. Not mixed martial arts. "Ultimate
Fighting."
UFC's strategy to challenge boxing and to challenge boxers is nothing new. Antonio Inoki used it in the 1970s to play off of Muhammad Ali's star power to catapult the credibility of Japanese professional wrestling.
So why does the strategy of challenging boxing work? Because people in the boxing industry allow it to happen.
If there is a collective group of non-media savvy people in another sector of the fight industry outside of Toughman, please let me know. Even professional wrestling gets more positive coverage than boxing these days.
And boxing has no one to blame but itself.
For every Teddy Atlas and Oscar De La Hoya, you have 20 guys who have no idea what message to say or how to say it in the press. When presented with an outside challenge to the industry, people in boxing would rather throw gasoline on the situation than attempt to appropriately diffuse it. Whenever boxing is challenged by another sport, boxing never wins the PR battle.
This was perfectly demonstrated last Friday on ESPN's SportsCenter program. Host Brian Kenny (a boxing ally) hosted a 15-minute segment between UFC commentator Joe Rogan and boxing promoter Lou DiBella. For UFC, they couldn't have scripted the media situation any better. DiBella looked and acted exactly like a parody stereotype of someone associated in boxing - cock-headed, smug, thuggish, not prepared, arrogant, and angry. Rogan came off as a maniac for his sport, but was more than willing to debate his points and mix it up verbally. DiBella had no clue how to handle Rogan or his statements. Rather than praise MMA, DiBella went right into the anti-MMA playbook of "MMA is human cockfighting" and "MMA is pitbull fighting." On a week when UFC reached critical mass in mainstream media coverage, this was absolutely the worst tactic for DiBella to take in the media.
The one valid point DiBella tried to make was that comparing MMA to boxing is like comparing apples to oranges. However, he made this point far too late in the SportsCenter segment. The damage was already done.
Just like Dana White played off of Floyd Mayweather, Joe Rogan toyed around with Lou DiBella on national TV. It was devastating PR for boxing. |
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by the boxing fans......guess not. Boxing fans are probably starting to concede to the new wave of combat sport.