By: Dan Horgan
www.doghouseboxing.com

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson

Last summer, I wrote an article entitled UFC Poses No Long Term Threat to Boxing, and the internet MMA community went into an uproar. In the article, I stated the copious reasons why the UFC would eventually die out, and I ended up looking like an ignorant jerk.

When writing the article, I made one regrettable mistake: failing to realize the abundant fans that watch both boxing and mixed martial arts. I wrote the article in a way that I thought boxing fans — and boxing fans alone — would understand: I took the biggest organization in MMA (the UFC) and referred to the sport as a whole as that organization. When the three hundred plus emails streamed into my inbox from angry MMA fans, nearly all of them stated that I was unaware of the other mixed martial arts leagues, and that I was simply scared that their sport would overtake boxing. These people were dead wrong.

Oscar De La Hoya

In my many debates following the article, everyone — including radio show hosts, Dog Pound posters, and even some of my closest friends — took the same stance of those angry emailers. Perhaps in an attempt to disguise their own lack of argument, they used my age (at the time, sixteen) against me, and made it seem as if I did zero research before writing the article. I was a fodder of sorts for them to defend the sport they so vehemently support.

Nothing is more frustrating than people not taking you seriously. While trying to argue, I couldn