The sport of MMA, mixed martial arts, appears to be trying to grow closer to boxing’s success as MMA shrinks and boxing booms in 2026.
This has been so obvious not just this year but last year as well.
With all the MMA fighters switching to boxing on KSI’s Misfits Promotions for one but there has been so many.
What you are seeing proof and hard evidence again of though is at the Conor McGregor MMA event this week.
At the weigh-in, not one, but they brought in three high profile boxers at the weigh-in for McGregor vs Holloway 2.
Literally they brought in Shakur Stevenson, Conor Benn and Ryan Garcia literally standing right behind where Conor McGregor was weighing in.
More and more MMA fighters continue to switch to pro boxing as well.
Nate Diaz, one of MMA’s biggest names, now actually has gone from MMA completely and is pursuing professional boxing full-time as of right now.
More and more proof all the time that boxing was not only the bigger sport than MMA, mixed martial arts, but the far bigger one.
That is the truth of it.
More eyeballs in professional boxing is a good thing and boxing can use these attempts from MMA all the time to its advantage.
Why not? Boxing might as well capitalize on all the new success we are experiencing as a sport again.
Driven by quality matchmaking of more of the best fights that spectators genuinely want to see.
You see no professional boxers going to MMA at the moment do you?
That is where the additional proof is that boxing is not only the hotter sport in America, but worldwide.
The truth is it always was but just now more than ever.
This weekend Conor McGregor fights in MMA but he fought in boxing before and recently had shots at both Terence Crawford and boxers.
He never usually does this and just shows again where the big popularity is in combat sports, not just in America.
Worldwide.
That is in professional boxing.
Boxing wins again.
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