MMA sucks

They call UFC, WEC, and all that other crap "mixed martial arts" but the only style you see are a bunch of guys on the floor hugging each other. If I wanted to watch that I would've stayed in Turkey. Boxing takes way more skill and is way more physically demanding than MMA hands down. I liked the early UFC but it sucks ass now.

what EVERYONE needs to remember here, (and I know the 'MMA fighters are the baddest asses in the world' UFC fans don't want to hear this) is that BOTH boxing and MMA are SPORTS. NOT actual close quarters combat techniques. Sure, they both use techniques used in real street fighting self defense...but just because you are a great mixed martial artist OR boxer does not mean you are going to do dick-shit in a fight against someone who TRAINS for REAL fighting. Half of those fancy chokes you see so often used in MMA would easiy be defended against  in a fight where anything goes. And i'll admit, some of the joint locks/arm bars would be great but in order to APPLY most of them you have to put yourself in a position where you could get SERIOUSLY hurt in a no-rules environment i.e; losing a testicle, suffering a pierced eyeball ect...

They are both SPORTS. And for the blood thirsty, give it up...because NEITHER of them are any 'closer' to real life fighting. In fact, thinking this way as an MMA artist is a sure way to get yourself in big trouble in a street fight just like a boxer thinking he has it covered would be a mistake as well.

People need to step back and acknowledge them as two different sports with two different sets of rules...neither being better or 'closer to the real thing' than the other.

Saying that MMA is more like real fighting compared to boxing is like saying that playing with toy guns is closer to being in real combat than playing video games. It doesn't really make any difference because they are both pretty different than the real thing.