I'm not a big fan of UFC or boxing (excepting Rocky and/or Antonio Inoki beating up Ali). I have a hard time seeing how boxing is any more or less of a sport though.
I guess a lot of people like the UFC thing better because it seems closer to real fighting, which it is in terms of how applicable the styles being used could potentially be outside the ring/octagon/hypercube/whatever, but it's still got enough rules and structure to it that the whole thing is pretty firmly a simulation. Which is fine - nothing wrong with that, and I'm sure the fighters would kick plenty of ass in a random streetfight too. It's just kind of caught in a weird place, because it wants to be gritty and real, but it still has to have all that structure to be a sport, so whenever I see it, it feels kind of awkward to me.
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