UFC, boxing, WWF, or ?
 

Those of you who like watching fighting sports on TV, what is your favorite?

I like watching boxing, always have. Especially the lighter weight classes where there is a lot of speed and movement.

Pro wrestling is definitely not my cup of tea.

Watched some UFC for the first time in a long while. It was sort of interesting for the first couple of minutes, when the fighters were on their feet. After they went down, it got boring.

I like watching tae kwan do, judo, etc in the Olympics, but you can seldom find it on TV between the Games. I do always have the nagging feeling that someone should be knocking someone out and it never happens.

ufc 100 was stellar.

I think GSP might be the best pound for pound fighter in the world, in any fighting sport.

sumo is a sport
and over quickly

college wrestling is ok
pro is totally faked and not a sport

Yeah, I enjoy a good boxing match.

I normally watch none of the above on TV, but every year my area has a Golden Gloves tournament with around 10 fight nights stretched over about a month. Those are fantastic and I attend as many as I can. The earliest nights are around $6/seat, and by the end of the run they are into the championships and those go to around $12/seat.

The second year I attended I convinced my dad to come along for a night... he was reluctant since, like me, he has never really been into televised fights. By the third event he was jumping to his feet along with the crowd and yelling... very unlike him. He had a blast, and attended with me again last year.

Here is some footage from the tournament:
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I want to see UFC swimsuit models duke it till there is plenty-o-blood...then they get into a tickle fight and kiss.

Greco Roman Wrestling

I'd much rather see them 'go at it' in another fashion.

That one brunette chick, omfg...

Our lil one watches iCarly who is supposed to fight her - I can't believe that show would go there. I am going to tape it!

GSP is very good but Anderson Silva is in a league of his own.

UFC is by far my favorite spectator sport. I DVR every episode of UFC Unleashed. I don't watch boxing anymore and I've never been into the WWF.

agreed. Loved seeing Henderson shutting Bisping up. I heard he's still out:D

Brock can go back to the WWE, Dana White jumped straight into his ass after what he did after the fight and he apologized at the post fight conference.

GSP, Well GSP is the man. But I agree with cantdrv55, I think Silva is in a differant league. I think if GSP goes up a class to fight Silva, GSP would lose.

WHats your take on UFC 101?

I've never liked Bisping and hated him on Ulitimate Fighter. I'm glad Henderson knocked him out. You think he'll still be taking smack?

UFC 101

I think BJ will submit Florian but Kenny's going to open up BJ's face with those pointy elbows.

Silva will TKO Forrest.

I think Kendall Grove is overrated.

I can't decide between Anderson Silva, and Lyoto Machida for the best MMA fighter in the world. Until they put some matches under their belts, they'll both be second fiddle to Royce Gracie. That guy was the real deal when the sport was just a banned street fight.

Don't overlook the WEC on Versus. WEC is owned by the same company as the UFC, but focuses on lower weight classes. The only class that overlaps is Lightweight (155). The caliber of fighters is similar. They have a show called WEC WreckCage with replays of past fights, similar to UFC Unleashed.

Diego Sanchez is the real deal!

It was great to see serra get pounded by GSP to regain the title.

Looking forward to Penn v Florian. I'm leaning toward Florian in that one. I think he's more hungry.

Anderson Silva? FREAK! If he controls the fight with Griffin he'll win but if it turns in to a brawl Griffin will win. No one has put Silva on his heels. I kinda think Griffin can.

I don't care for Lesnar, and the cynic in me say that whole thing was planned by White for publicity. Lesnar is already disliked by most UFC fans and he knows it, so he really doesn't have a down side. Dana knows that Lesnar winning is one news article, if that.

But what we got was several. We got:
Lesnar Wins
Lesnar acts like a WWE Douchebag in the post fight interview.
White slaps Lesnar down, and talks about how the UFC isn't like that.

Hell, it is still in the news, here is a Boston Globe piece from today:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/ultimate_fighting/view.bg?articleid=1187104&srvc=sports&position=4

I can't remember any other UFC event that was still in the news 2 weeks later, unless someone failed a drug test. Normally you have to pay for that kind of publicity. If I was a betting man, I would wager Lesnar's next fight sets a Pay per view record for a MMA event.

I think so too. GSP walks around at 185, Silva probably over 200. I think on their feet it could be close, but if they went to the ground, Silva would dominate George the same way George dominated BJ Penn, for the same reason.

Penn over Florian. Now that Penn has some training discipline, he is going to be hard to beat at 155. Looking at his recent fights with Stevenson and Sherk and comparing to some of his past fights, with Matt Hughs, and his first with GSP, he looks like a completely different fighter. His stand up is as good as Florian, and he is better on the ground.

Silva over Griffin, but I don't think it will be easy. Forrest is tough, much larger, and hits hard. There is always a punchers chance (remember Matt Serra over GSP?).

Machida has such a strange style, so far everyone he has fought has been lost to defend against him. His next fight is supposed to be against Shogun Rua, I think if he defeats Rua (which he probably will), he will be on top of 205 for a while. Then again, has his chin ever been tested?

Gracie's MMA record is 14-3-3, and most of his early victories (with the exception of Ken Shamrock) he was using his father's revolutionary style of Jiu Jitsu, to submit guys who had either no ground game at all, or at best some Greco Roman Wrestling. Later in his career, once other fighters started training in BJJ, he didn't do nearly as well as his early fights.

Granted, his first 12 fights were in 4 events, which is pretty impressive.

The landscape of MMA has changed considerably since Gracie was dominant, brought about because of his dominance. Simply put, most of Gracie's early opponents brought a knife to a gun fight.

Anderson Silva already has more fights than Gracie, with a record of 24-4, and Machida is 15-0. I believe it is fair to say that Both Machida and Silva have faced a higher caliber of opponents than Grace did for the majority of his fights. Modern MMA fighters all have some ground skills (or takedown defense), hell, even that street fighting meathead Kimbo Slice won a fight by submission.

It really isn't an apples to apples comparison.

Speaking of Kimbo, Dana White is a marketing genius for getting the street brawler into the Ultimate Fighter series. I hope he gets beat down because he's nothing but a thug.

WEC? I guess I better look into Versus.

Lessnar is an ass, but that man has freakish speed for a man his size. What a beast.

Silva has kind of been in a wierd mental place his last few fights, not sure if he could suddenly snap out of it for a GSP fight. I sure hope the fight happens though... :)