Floyd Mayweather Jr. won the award for "Best Fighter" at the ESPY's on Wednesday night this week. The name of the award used to be "Best Boxer" and was changed in 2007 according to an article on Sherdog a prominent Mixed Martial Arts web site. If a boxer is going to win it though shouldn't the title of the award match the sport? The definition of a professional fighter has changed since the emergence of the Martial Arts sport known as Mixed Martial Arts becomes increasingly popular. With its popularity, rules and regulations comes restrictions as to who can fight who. It's not like the first UFC where there were no rules and a boxer could test himself against students of another discipline. For the record, boxers did not do well in that event. Regardless, those days are gone and both boxing and MMA are regulated bonafied combat sports that have their own respective pound for pound best in their class. Mr. Mayweather most d...
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