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Originally Posted by Metalhead  Boxing bores the shit out of me and most people I know. |
Same here.
And Lovebuzz, I respect your opinions and I did read your entire post. You force me to clarify/correct what I said which is that boxing, while not extinct, has been marginalized for
many young people these days, and while it still does enjoy popularity among certain groups of people (e.g. Hispanics as you accurately claim), I believe that boxing represents the "past" and MMA represents the "future".
Boxing will never be literally extinct in the sense that dinosaurs are - meaning nobody boxes and nobody watches it - but I believe that its golden era has come and gone, and won't return for at least a long time.
MMA is in the driver's seat now, and given the relentlessness that Dana White shows at the helm, it will penetrate the pockets that you rightly point out are still largely untapped in the US - Hispanics, blacks. I don't think different ethnicities - especially among the young - are so unalike in this way that Hispanics and blacks won't "get" what white people "get" about the UFC. Once exposed to it with the right kind of marketing and exposure, a large enough proportion of that cherished 17-34 demographic will embrace MMA to tip the scales even more dramatically from boxing to MMA.
I have only limited interest in the many boxing vs. MMA threads that one finds on this and similar boards, so while more could be said, I'll leave it at that.
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