You are forgetting that the NBA now has 0 defense...regardless of the times I think MJ would dominate in this league now since you can't even touch a guy on the perimeter. IN MJ's time you could hand check the crap out of the guards at the top and actually play defense down low. There was no stupid semi circle for charges or blocks so guys actually played positional defense. This league has evolved into a stars league where offenses are allowed to do whatever they'd like to. As for your Bolt comments...they are all on drugs. The drugs Lewis was on are not as good as the ones Bolt is doing now. Nor was the training and science behind sports...hence the difference in run times. I am sure that if you had a young Carl Lewis and a young Bolt training the same and on the same illegal drugs we would essentially have the same type of athletes today or in the past. And the average height in the NBA peaked in the 93-94 and the average weight is only 6lbs more so all the talk about being bigger and badder...

I would say that right now boxing is bigger....for now. The only great boxer left that most people can name now is probably Manny (or the old hangers on like Hopkins or Holyfield). But with no one good to fight and his career nearing an end what does boxing have left (or coming in to fill those shoes)? Whereas MMA just had an 11 million dollar gate here in Canada with GSP (who just turned 30) and the PPV numbers seem to keep climbing and more and more places allowing and sanctioning it. I think it's a safe bet that MMA will catch and surpass boxing down the road.

I agree with most of your post...but to say that anyone can get into MMA over boxing??? The only reason Kimbo was on TV was because the organization he got on with was absolute **** and was merely using his internet stuff to get people to watch (If you had put him on TV in a boxing match it would of drawn just as big numbers as his couple of fights on that MMA **** show). The minute he went on to the UFC his lack of skilled was exposed and he lost to mid card type MMA guys. You put anyone with experience in any sport against someone with little or no experience and they will get smashed. I also thought he might be better suited for boxing (if you had to pick one, I don't think he can do either at a high level) because it's a much more one dimensional combat sport than MMA (and Kimbo is basically a KO puncher even in MMA fights). I am not trying to take anything away from the skill or strategies of boxing just that in MMA you must be versed in stand up (both hands and feet) and on the ground (take downs and submissions). But all in all to be honest Kimbo was too old to train and be good at either sport and was a flash in the pan internet flop...neither of these sports can be just jumped into and dominated. He should of stuck to beating up other nobodies.