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i was just wondering what people think of what roy jones is doing with this mma \ boxing card .
iam still not sure it all seems a little bit gimmicky.
would be interested to hear what people think and is it just a 1 off think or can it be done agin more often in the future

I know that Oscar De La Hoya (Golden Boy Promotions) was talking about putting something like this together a while back and I didn't really like the idea of it. I can't see it working.

The only way I can possibly see it working is if they replace the usual boxing undercard fights with MMA fights and then have one or two (max) BIG boxing fights. So maybe 10 MMA followed by 2 boxing may work, but only if the boxers are big box office names.

For example... in the UK, if you could put together an event that included:

8x MMA - Under Card - Up & Coming Fighers.
2x MMA - Head Liner- Such as Dan Hardy + Martin Thompson
1x MMA - Main Event - Michael Bisping
1x Boxing - Head Liner - Kevin Mitchell
1x Boxing - Main Event - Ricky Hatton

Something along those lines would sell-out any stadium in the UK 3 times over!

What do you reckon?

Yeah I totally agree, it would have to be BIG name boxers to get me interested.

Personally I find it very hard to get excited about boxing nowdays, it all seems a bit tame compared to MMA. I watch it getting frustrated thinking just grab him, slam him to the floor and give him some ground and pound!! LOL none of this jab jab, jab jab!! GET INVLOVED & KICK SOME ARSE!!! haha.... sorry getting frustrated just thinking about it now! lol

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