As far as I’m concerned, UFC has pretty much made traditional boxing obsolete. Why should I watch two fighters square off behind puffy gloves when I can watch two barely padded UFC fighters repeatedly knee and kick each other in the head? Boxing needs to come up with a new gimmick, and I think Tyson Fury found it by punching himself in the face (video below).
I would love to see two boxers standing on either ends of the ring, each one trying their damnedest to knock his own self out …

There’s nothing less desirable to me than the thought of being knocked out by a professional boxer, and consequently the reward of knocking someone unconscious isn’t enough to trump the disadvantages of me ever stepping inside the ring–this is why I’m not a boxer.
A barroom brawl is a whole different story… though if it were up to me, the only one knocking me out at a bar would be Jameson, though he would never do such a thing to a good friend…
For others like me, who would rather see people …