Sports Illustrated: Ultimate Fighting is "The New Main Event"

Fear not Couture fans, Captain America still gets his own cover later this summer.

That feature will be on Randy however, and not mixed martial arts in general as this one was.

Well. All i have to say, “It’s about time” these mainstream magz8 and T.V. show this HUGE Sport the respect.

Bye bye boxing.

Bye bye boxing.

Good call, even though I thinks its been dead for a while.

Lets hope that Sports Illustrated curse doesn’t bite our favorite sport on its keister.

The sport of MMA is God Blessed, just keep Don King away from all the fighters/events/brass/fans/etc..Our sport is the best combat sport in the world. We need to preserve it and remember how it got this far and what are the do’s and dont’s of this sport..we can learn from boxing.

It’s great to see the sport make it here but why do we automatically say bye bye boxing? Boxing has a legacy of fighters that will never be forgotten or replaced. Let them coexist.

Boxing is dead. Not the sports fault at all. Lay the blame on Don King, Bob Arum, alphabet soup orgs, no team concept, horrible promotion, no respectable TV, pay per view, on and on.

It’s great to see the sport make it here but why do we automatically say bye bye boxing? Boxing has a legacy of fighters that will never be forgotten or replaced. Let them coexist.

I agree the sport can co-exist, but I am happy to see MMA get it’s place. Sports Illustrated is a big spread, if not the biggest. We made it to the big time fellas

I;m proud of the MMA organization. They are doing a wonderful job.

Its about time mma had a mainstream article like that written. Objective and siting all necessary advantages for the future growth of the sport. Eventually the right wing conservatives will be forced to forget the images of original gladiator style mma, and have no choice but to identify it as the stratigic battle of knowledge as well as physical superiority.

Its about time mma had a mainstream article like that written. Objective and siting all necessary advantages for the future growth of the sport. Eventually the right wing conservatives will be forced to forget the images of original gladiator style mma, and have no choice but to identify it as the stratigic battle of knowledge as well as physical superiority.

My man. Maniacs, welcome my bro, and favorite bartender, Mr SmokeyMcpot. Nice of you to finally show up.

Boxing is dead. Not the sports fault at all. Lay the blame on Don King, Bob Arum, alphabet soup orgs, no team concept, horrible promotion, no respectable TV, pay per view, on and on.

Yeah big time boxing of the past 3 decades is dead. It will never completely go away. The pure sports will stay around but they’ll be shown on ESPN2 at 11:00 PM instead of on PPV.

good to see UFC still making great exposure

respect the real fighters!!

After reading that article, I feel like I’ll never be a true fan until I go to one of the events. Bring it back to NJ UFC!

Awesome article. I would continue to praise the attention, but I feel it is unecessary. The way things are going, nothing is goig to stop MMA from going mainstream, short of a death. And I honestly think the sport is safer than that.

I’m real happy UFC is getting so much exposure.But stop saying boxing is dead,it’s not,and never will be.The majority of mma fighters practice boxing.Before UFC and Pride came along I was a boxing fan and I still ‘am and i’m sure most of you guys were as well.How can you knock boxing when it’s part of the sport we all love.

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UFC back in NJ in either Oct or Nov this year is some form. Dana White at today’s press conference.

anybody know how to do a crucifix armbar?