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The Daily Forecast just did an interesting debate on who would win a battle between a boxer and a MMA (or UFC) fighter. Paul Costanzo defended boxers while Drew Ellis made a case for UFC fighters. To read both arguments in their entirety, click the above links, but for the highlights, see below.

Costanzo’s main point was about boxers’ feet and their ability to potentially strike a MMA fighter when they’re loading up to attack. A boxer could keep everything in front of him while in an upright stance and exploit holes that a MMA fighter would leave while trying to use his assortment of moves.

Ellis objected to Constanzo assuming the MMA fighter wouldn’t be prepared for a boxer trying to exploit their weaknesses. His main point was once the MMA fighter gets a boxer to the ground, he could consistently strike from a position the boxer wouldn’t normally be in, and of course defeat him.

Of course this debate is all hypothetical, but it’s rather interesting. Personally, I think boxers are at a distinct disadvantage considering the amount of styles an MMA fighter uses. It would be like a construction worker showing to build a house with only a hammer and nails. However, give an experienced, prepared boxer like Floyd Mayweather Jr. time to train and it would be an interesting battle. And like Costanzo was arguing, a top boxer is going to find holes in an MMA’s style just based on the possibility a fighter like that may try to do too much in order to counter a boxers’ more conventional style.

I realize I’m going to piss many people off by saying this and I don’t mean to dump on anyone’s thing, but I don’t get the UFC’s popularity, I just don’t. I don’t get how I can sit in a Buffalo Wild Wings on a Sunday afternoon and watch a UFC match on 80% of the TVs when many interleague MLB games, the U.S. Open and College World Series are on.

Now don’t get me wrong – these fighters are awfully talented to learn many forms of MMA and have to execute moves in an octagon while another guy is trying to destroy you. However, no matter how many people try convincing me baseball and golf are boring or that the NBA isn’t the same game anymore, I’ll always take any of those over the UFC. Maybe it was the particular match I was watching, but it just looks like an uncoordinated after school fight to me (but on a bigger scale of course).

Is this just a fad or will it only get more popular? I’d still take boxing over UFC, but am I in the minority on that? Please, someone tell me what the draw is, because maybe I’m missing something.

Sports Gone South.com recently ranked the 10 most insane past and present wives/girlfriends in sports. The list is freaking hilarious and includes some real winners like Brenda Warner, Joumanna “my kid’s got a forehead like a drive in movie theater” Kidd and Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopez.

Among the 10 is Anna Benson, who has got to be the hottest, yet craziest, wife of any current major league player (she’s married to Orioles’ starting pitcher Kris Benson). She once said that if Kris ever cheated on her, she’d sleep with the entire New York Mets (he played for the Mets in ’04 and ‘05) team, including not only the players but coaches as well.

Check out the list, get a good laugh and then go thank your local holy man that you’re not with any of the women listed.