Over the last few years, it would be fair to say that boxing had literally gone into hiding. This is the result of two things: the rise of other sports such as MMA and the lack of big names materializing in boxing.
There has admittedly been a small handful of world-class and truly great boxers over the past few years, such as Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, but it doesn’t extend to many more than them.
It seems that the new generations of fighting fans are now far more interested MMA, whilst the older guys amongst us are traditionalists and prefer boxing. If we are honest about the reasoning behind the popularity of the newer fighting sports, it is simply because they are better, more exciting and technically more difficult.
When attempting to compare the two sports it is always a good idea to look at the negatives of both of them first off. Fans of boxing will always claim that MMA is a barbaric sport, whilst on the flip-side, MMA fans will claim that as...
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