Would you rather have a boxer or an MMA fighter

The Mighty One · 07-11-2009, 11:28 PM

if you were in a war and your squad ran out of ammunition and had to fight for your lives? Can you imagine a referee seperating the combatants due to low blows, hitting below the belt and hitting behind the head.
(I am tired of the debate and hearing that UFC fighters are fags and pussies.) Those in both sports are all tougher men than 99% of us who post here.

eze · 07-11-2009, 11:29 PM

in war? i want someone that is willing to fight once they run out of ammunition.

TheStraightLeft · 07-11-2009, 11:35 PM

MMA no question. I'd need people who have the skills to adapt to whatever the enemy throws at us.

thewoo · 07-11-2009, 11:52 PM

No way you can call an MMA fighter a pussy or a fag. Those guys are real hardcore and in a real no rules fight a top MMA guy would probably beat a top boxer.

That being said I don't really care for the sport. I find the hugging and ground game to be very boring. I enjoy watching strikers like Anderson Silva but often his opponents don't want to fight, they just want to get on the ground where the fight is so much more boring.

san rafael · 07-11-2009, 11:53 PM

Marnoff · 07-11-2009, 11:57 PM

I'd want the best fighter, regardless of his discipline.

Evil Rich · 07-12-2009, 01:29 AM

Is Ray Mercer the boxer?

AJAX · 07-12-2009, 01:34 AM

A boxer has to know boxing

An MMA fighter has to know boxing,wrestling,Jui juit sui,Sambo,karate,kickboxing,Judo,Muai Tai, etc.

TheStraightLeft · 07-12-2009, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by AJAX

A boxer has to know boxing

An MMA fighter has to know boxing,wrestling,Jui juit sui,Sambo,karate,kickboxing,Judo,Muai Tai, etc.

An MMA fighter doesn't necessarily has to know all that. The key difference is that the MMA fighter must at least have experience and a fight strategy against all the other styles. How he chooses to train is up to him.

Fighting Pride · 07-12-2009, 01:58 AM

Toss up between Brock Lesnar and Koki Kameda

cdnboxing · 07-12-2009, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ajax

a boxer has to know boxing

an mma fighter has to know boxing,wrestling,jui juit sui,sambo,karate,kickboxing,judo,muai tai, etc.

lol, well thats stupid.

cdnboxing · 07-12-2009, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by TheStraightLeft

MMA no question. I'd need people who have the skills to adapt to whatever the enemy throws at us.

What are you talking about?

TheStraightLeft · 07-12-2009, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by cdnboxing

What are you talking about?

What do you mean? I was responding to the first post.

Weber · 07-12-2009, 08:37 AM

I'd go with Mirko Crocop who was an actual real-life commando.

kflex101 · 07-12-2009, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by TheStraightLeft

An MMA fighter doesn't necessarily has to know all that. The key difference is that the MMA fighter must at least have experience and a fight strategy against all the other styles. How he chooses to train is up to him.

Good point, and one that is so often overlooked.
The best MMA practitioners can often be surprisngly one dimensional, what they need is defences against what they are weak at, a stratergy as you put it.

All too often a fight is not won in strengths, rather lack of weaknesses, Cro Cop beat the best in Pride with a very basic ground game, but his defences against others ground attacks were almost always enough.

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thewoo Undisputed Champion East Side VIP Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 12,604 vCash: 950	Re: Would you rather have a boxer or an MMA fighter No way you can call an MMA fighter a pussy or a fag. Those guys are real hardcore and in a real no rules fight a top MMA guy would probably beat a top boxer. That being said I don't really care for the sport. I find the hugging and ground game to be very boring. I enjoy watching strikers like Anderson Silva but often his opponents don't want to fight, they just want to get on the ground where the fight is so much more boring.
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