Call me a Tradionalist

Call me a traditionalist, or just plain old fashioned but when it comes to fighting, boxing is still king of the ropes or cage which ever you support. After watching the UFC so called match of the century Shane Gerwin vs Brock Lesnar, I have come to the conclusion that UFC is still behind boxing by a long shot. Never can you compare these fights to actual fights of the century in the ring. There is no Leonard vs Hagler no Tyson vs Holyfield, and when the best fight in the world Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather takes place sometime in the near future it will make UFC smaller then Pluto anther ex planet in our solar system. UFC attracts a younger demographic of we want blood, and guts on the floor. But when you watch two tired fights lay on the ground trying to catch their breath for two minutes your attention span goes the other way. There is no techniques no matter how much the announcers say there is its just punches and kick and hopefully someone lands something. Lessner won the match but he did not win me over. He did withstand an onslaught by Gerwin but he threw so many punches that he could barely breathe. The sport is the same as the Roman empire when they pitted gladiators going up against one another till the death. The more blood the people saw the crazier the fans screamed. Techniques were some but more of the swinging wildly and hope that the right punch connects and knocks the opponent to the ground. Their is no feeling each other out, the rounds are for 3 minutes of hold your breathe and wait for the onslaught to begin, like slaughtering a pig till it bleeds to death, that is what UFC is all about. It reminds me more of wresting WWE style the fighters get on each others faces and do this cinematic approach before the fight, to hype it up but at the end you paid 50 dollars for a pay per view event that wasn't worthy. Now we ask how long can UFC last, will it go as far as boxing has. There is no telling, the young demographic cry for UFC but the traditionalist in all of us still want to see the great boxing matches of before and after. In the beginning UFC fights were longer and they basically had no rules. Fights use to last hours until someone could no longer walk and winners usually one by holding an opponent down for hours until he tapped out. Now with rules in place fights last about one round because these fighters lose all their energy in the first two minutes. That is something I don't want to see. I want to see a fight that both opponents take blows and block blows. Toe to toe for the full five or three rounds. I will take my chance with boxing even though the competition has not been the same. We are in a low point of boxing where there isn't that many famous boxers as before, but eventually boxing will be back to its great stage and where will this leave UFC hopefully in video games like UFC 2010.