Still fighting the good fight?Totally. Dudes touching each other is so gay, makes me uncomfortable as well - which, by the way, is a totally normal, heterosexual response to watching an athletic event involving two men.
Personally, I prefer watching two men wearing knee-high latex boots and satin boxer shorts repeatedly hug one another. (Particularly, I love it when they have masculine nicknames like, "Sugar," "Marvelous," "Pretty Boy," "Winky," and "Golden Boy.") I mean, come on, the only thing more hetero than that is posting on a forum where 90% of the users (such as myself and Southpaw, here) display semi-nude photos of themselves for other men to see. AM I RIGHT!?
Condescension aside - which you deserve, by the way, for not only coming off as unfortunately uncomfortable with your own sexuality and homophobic, but ignorant as well - these characterizations are trite and silly. I can understand not enjoying the sport from an athletic standpoint, disagreeable as I may find the possible arguments for it, but reducing the argument to, "So gay, bro" makes you come off like a petulant frat boy.
More than that, it makes both boxing and MMA fans appear as if we are one-dimensional caricatures incapable of appreciating athletics in general. From my perspective, that is untrue: the majority of people with whom I watch MMA also watch boxing, and vice versa. Finally, the 'Affliction bro' is as or more annoying to me than it is to you, mostly because it is an inaccurate and unfair characterization.
Is it that you dislike boxing, or when people take the stance that boxing is great and MMA is awful?