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To: Clint N. Suhks
Knockout rates are lower in MMA competitions than in boxing

Unlike in boxing, fighters most often quit in MMA, as is one of the methods of winning a fight. How often does a boxer just up and quit in the middle of a fight. Other than Roberto Duran, I am hard pressed to name another figher who has done it. Though it has to happen from time to time, but it is exceptionally rare.

43 posted on 02/29/2008 11:13:32 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Phantom Lord
fighters most often quit in MMA,

I haven't seen every MMA fight there is but I've seen quite a few. Not once have I ever seen a fighter quit unless you are talking about submissions. Submissions are part of the sport and prevents injury. I'd hardly call that quitting.

44 posted on 02/29/2008 11:21:05 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Who would you rather appoint lifetime judges, Barack Hussein Obama or McQueeg?©®™)
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To: Phantom Lord
Plenty have taken a dive, tanked a match, because they were told to.

Fixed fights and dancing boxers are responsible for the decline of boxing.

60 posted on 02/29/2008 11:59:44 AM PST by razorback-bert (Eco-wackos make love by candlelight, it is the only light they have.)
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