Floyd Mayweather Jr. is trying to hype up his sport and generate some buzz about his profession. It;s now a fact that professional boxing is less popular that MMA and boxing is now quite literally “on the ropes”.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. came out the last couple weeks completely bashing the UFC and stating that any boxer would demolish a UFC fighter in the cage. Dana White (UFC President) came back at Mayweather and named you as the guy who he’d put Mayweather up against, and that you would handle him no problem. [1]
Sherk’s response to this comment from Mayweather was straight up and to the point:
I don’t think that fight would last longer than a minute, to be honest with you. And I don’t think he should be talking about something that he can’t back up, because I’ll fight him tomorrow. I literally would, if they called and asked me to fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr. tomorrow, it’s done. He’s not going to fight me though, and he’s just running his mouth. I don’t really respect that a whole lot.
Sean Sherk isn’t hyping up UFC or Mixed Martial Arts - I believe he could take Mayweather
but the sad fact of the matter is that it will never happen! Mayweather is tipped as favorite against De La Hoya on Saturday, May 5th 2007 in the fight that many people say will make or break boxing. I’d love to see De La Hoya KO Mayweather and then Mayweather fight Sherk in some sort of demo fight to hype boxing.
I posted a poll on the left about boxing being more popular than MMA and organizations like UFC and PRIDE etc. What are your thoughts?
If you are a boxing fan then our boys at BetUS.com who dish out some sick odds for UFC and MMA have the fight posted at -180 for Mayweather. If you bet $100 on De La Hoya you’ll win $150, I’d take that bet. I think this is going to be one of those nights in boxing where the shit hits the fan for Mayweather. It would be funny to see him lose and watch his career fall to an all time low so that he’d HAVE to fight Sherk to bring it back. OK, I’m dreaming, I’m out :)
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Boxing is so dead. I gave them a chance before they started spouting their mouths off. They lost me as a viewer.
Especially now that little punk ass Mayweather won last night! If De La Hoya retires now that’s another superstar boxer gone… How many superstar boxers are out there right now?
Boxing is definitely not doing well
MMA is the most exciting combative sport in the world now! Mayweather vs. Sherk is a damn joke! Sherk would shut that kid down in a matter of seconds. I watched the De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight, and honestly I wasn’t impressed! Both fighters looked like they came out of a health spa instead of a fight. People watch the UFC because its entertaining,fast paced and unpredictable. Boxing is more like 12 rd decisions these days with both fighters doing minimal damage. Mike Tyson was the most exciting fighter in the 80’s and early 90’s. Most people cant even name the current wbc,wbo,or ibf heavyweight champ now in boxing(that right there should tell us were boxings headed)
its a shame really,but im afraid boxing is on the slide.they had some great years.i remember stayin up late 2 watch the big fights.everyone talked of it the next day.its our time now.mma’s got it all.why have a greasey old burger when u can have a big fat juicey steak?
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This how popular MMA is becoming. I live in Hollywood California and do not have cable, so I went to a local hooters restaurant to catch the fight for free! So, my friend is all we gotta go super early, and I am like nah dude, this is hollywood, MMA hasn’t caught on yet. To my freakin surprise we had to fight to catch a seat and we where an hour early at a huge hooters.
So, without question MMA is catching on like fireworks. With Oscar almost done, Tyson a joke and old it’s not even a question anymore. No one can name any of there current stars or title holders
UFC is way past boxing now, the only question is how long will be it trendy and how much more popular will it get?
I live in the u.k and ufc is exploding over here eg ufc 71 got over 200,000 thousand viewers on bravo, The best is yet to come we still have some great fights waiting to happen like Shogun vs Hendo, Fedor vs Randy, Chuck vs Wandy etc.