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Boxing was once America's national sport to look to for greatness. Movies used boxing to show the greatest triumphs of the human heart and soul. Far from the harsh realities of the sport, movies portrayed boxing as the underdog's sport. Where anyone no matter how much smaller, weaker, or disadvantaged could come back and pull out a knockout in the final seconds of a lost fight. Every kid had come across a situation in his life when he was Rocky Balboa, behind on points but not finished yet. Throughout the 1900's, we have been blessed with all sorts of great names that will be forever known around the world. Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and more. Today's limelight and generation has been captured by a new sport. One with more excitement, more technicality, more difficulty, more angles, and more ethnicities. That, my friend, is MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). In this type of sport, fighters all of all different fighting backgrounds and disciplines are encourage to enter the ring to win in any way that they can. MMA has evolved to a new level of true fighting tactics and has become a striking/wrestling/submission sport that is quickly growing its fan base of all ages. Although it is apples and oranges, I will try anyway to compare the two sports to see if I may come to a conclusion, once and for all....which is better?
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