There are mma fighters who also view MMA not as a sport. The reason is because MMA is the closet thing to real life combat without weapons. Sports, like boxing, aren't real life. MMA is as real as it gets.
With that said Broner is a retard. Boxers need to accept the fact that in a street fight a joe blow with 1 year mma training could take down their most revered boxing champions and bash their head in.