
“So, it’s still not as popular as boxing. Boxing is the second most popular sport in the world, next to soccer, and MMA is just something that’s come along. They’ve done a great job of marketing it. For people that remember it, there’s nobody on the level of Oscar de la Hoya, Ray Leonard, Ali, or Jeff Lacy or any of these guys…There’s nobody at MMA that right off the top of your head is going to go to a Hall of Fame. They’re going to either remember them or they’re going to have other lives afterwards. I can’t remember one guy.”
— Former Super Middleweight boxer Jeff Lacy, a man who won’t be nearly as thankful for MMA (or Hall of Famers like Randy Couture) as I am today.
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