On the Cbs.sportsline dot com message boards, for years they had a 'boxing' category and MMAers had to post stuff there. Only in the last year or so did they create a separate 'Mixed Martial Arts' category.
I was just over there and I a stat that was very startling: MMA posts- 10,194 Boxing posts- 66.
Is there any other explanation for this than it being another example of MMA taking over?
most mma fans are white males
most boxing fans are of color
people of color dont think its cool to post in the internet message boards figuring they have better shit to do
Simple. The age demographic is much different. MMA has the demographic of 18-34 while Boxing has the older demographic. The older Demographic tends to not post on message boards as often I would assume.
The Guillotine why are you insinuating that people of color prefer to be in gangs? Are you racist?
brigham the age demographics are only for white males
Yes its a sign that boxing is dying because they have failed to captivate the younger audience fanbase.
I'm sickened.
^^ correct
or banging whiteys
Brigham and NameCaller are correct, and The Guillotine should be confined to The KKKGround
The funny thing is, most of the boxing fans I know are in fact Caucasian.
Damn I can't stand people that throw racism around for no real reason.
I guess I still resent the days when Boxing used to pontificate as if it was the high and mighty "sweet science" while MMA was nothing more than cockfighting meets backyard wrestling.
Boxing fans-are not trolls, have a life, know who the top fighters are adon't have to make up fantasy rankings, less need to debate who will win b/c dream fights actually happen etc...
This is what passes for 'proof' these days?
seriously?what is there to talk about in boxing? The sport is a complete
sideshow full of crooks and sideways business practices. Plus no one
knows who's good any more. no characters nothing... Boxing is a former
shell of what it was 10 years ago.
dime snake, replace boxing with mma and 10 years ago with 1 year ago
Guillotine didn't insinuate anything about people of color being unemployed or in gangs. Some of you are reading that into his post which essentially reveals what YOU think of people of color.
don't change anything dimesnake.
Okay, so far we have the unsubstantiated claim that boxing fans are too good, racially inclined, or otherwise above hanging around and posting on message boards. This argument was made by, incidentally, boxing fans who are hanging around and posting on a message board.
"This argument was made by, incidentally, boxing fans who are hanging around and posting on a message board. "-This b/c of the mma nerd side in them. :)
Come on! I mean...what kind of a bullshit ad-hoc hypothesis was that! Boxing fans have better things to do than to post on message boards? George Dillman's tongue position and toe crossing theory is probably more empirically sound.