Big money made in show business

[ironglows]

  Tyson & Jones made big money in last night's exhibition fight!

   https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mike-tyson-roy-jones-jr-draw-boxing-spectacle

  Can't blame them, since people are willing to pay well for it !  It brings to mind the MMA champion, Connor McGregor "fighting" that other retired boxer, Floyd Mayweather.
   Don't get me wrong, Floyd was an outstanding boxer and still is, but McGregor did not use half the tools at his disposal.
   Way back in the 1950s, I recall a professional wrestler, who got a bona fide challenge from a rising star boxer of the time.
   The fight was short, the wrestler's first move was to take the boxer off his feet, and it was downhill from there. A submission hold ended the contest..I can't recall now, whether it was an arm or leg, that the boxer elected to keep unbroken.

  ....Different sport, different skills.
   
  If the fight between McGregor and Mayweather was not restricted, I suspect the outcome would have been far different, so I class that event with today's WWE..the "E" indicating exhibition.

  Note:  Even the headline doesn't call it a contest, but rather a "spectacle".

[BUGEYE]

I watch mma on YouTube quite often.
My wife has a first cousin (Joe the hitman Elmore) that fights mma, and the dummy recently started fighting bare knuckle.   He has definitely been hit in the head too many times.

[Dee]

I think mma, or meme, or whatever they call it, was invented, and developed in bars, and domestic disputes across the country.
So I guess me, and a lot of cops before me, were pioneers of the "sport".

[ironglows]

MMA seems to be the most genuine of the fight game now, although I hate to consider the aches and pains for the participants as they get older.
   My #2 grandson was involved in the sport some years ago, but at the urging of his wife, let the sport slide.
  I drove my #1 grandson while a teenager, about 90 miles round trip, twice a week, to attend instruction from an outstanding kick boxing sensei.
  Although he never went the cage fighting route, he did study more and became among other things, a MMA instructor as a Spec Ops Marine.  In fact it served him well in Iraq, where when herding terrorist prisoners, one decided to attack...in front of western reporters.
  Knowing he couldn't shoot the prisoner, although he had a right to, he simply subdued the prisoner with a parry, while landing a strike of his own.