Which sport is tougher Boxing or MMA

stupid thread

both are tough games which require serious dedication and talent to excel in

 

mma is tougher to make a living at, no money at all in it unless you are gsp. Paupers.

 

How much does an average non top 20 flyweight or bantamweight get paid these days then?

 

There have been a few young boxing champions, those have usually had an extensve amatuer background. The same with MMA those guys have been either wrestlers since the age of 6 or have studied a martial art for the same period of time. Same thing.

 

Technically or physically. It just depends. Is 25 minutes of grappling that physically taxing. There is more you can do in MMA but then you have less options in boxing so that could make it more difficult.

A fast person like Floyd would excel at boxing but maybe struggle with the physicality in MMA. On the flipside someone like GSP may get schooled in boxing but excel in grappling in MMA.

It just depends on the person. Both involve huge amounts of physical punishment.

 

Wrestling is lung bursting and taxing i can punch things all day twenty minutes of wrestling and i want to go home and have a lie down trust me very very hard sport

 

One need only get as far as "more tougher" before realizing that...

 

Yeah, that's why boxers jump right into mma and dominate. Wait...that hardly ever happens. Oh, right...that's never happened. There was this time a boxer ko'd a former mma champ with a punch early in the fight. Other than that, it's been rather unproductive for the "Sweet Science."

Remember that time Ray Mercer was beaten up by a guy that wasn't a real mixed martial artist and they changed the result to an exhibition loss? That was a fight between a former Olympian Gold Medalist Boxer and a bouncer from a strip club.

Oh, most UFC champs have less than 10 fights?

Flyweight Champ: Demetrious Johnson 19-2-1
Bantamweight: Renan Barao 33-1-0-1nc
Featherweight: Jose Aldo 23-1
Lightweight: Anthony Pettis 17-2
Welterweight: tbd
Middleweight: Chris Weidman 11-0
Lightheavyweight: Jon Jones 19-1
Heavyweight: Cain Velasquez 13-1

All of these are current champs, and none have less than 10 fights. You are an ill advised poster, or you're an idiot.

 

Yeah, those UFC clowns have the glassiest jaws of all. ****, my 85 year old mother could probably take a better shot.

 

Any boxers that have made the transition have been shot, old and looking for a payday

Anderson Silva the UFC GOAT wanted to be a boxer before he got stopped in 2 rounds by this guy http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=56926&cat=boxer

 

It's funny you mention this. Grapplers can jump right into the sport. Boxers can't. Boxers need all sorts of grappling training before getting in, and still lose for the most part. This is because grappling arts have proven to be superior to striking arts on most occasions.

A boxer with 50 professional fights is in trouble against any kind of grappler, and has only a puncher's chance to win. A decorated, amateur, wrestler with no professional mma experience would be favored over most any professional boxer in an mma bout. The edge in grappling experience is the wrestler's biggest advantage.

Lesnar was 106-5 as a collegiate wrestler, and won the NCAA championship after finishing 2nd the year before.

This was not a man without fighting experience. This was a man that came from a stronger fighting background than Western Boxing.

 

Scott Mongoloid is not concerned with facts and neither should you. When Scott Mongoloid pronounces a sport or a fighter as not worthy then you know they are as good as done.

 

Yep - and VitKlit got knocked the **** out by a kickboxer as a teenager but it does not matter as Vitklit was shot, old and looking for a payday.

 

Zumba is hardest.

 

I guess its boxing since the Brazilian GOAT (whatever his generic name is) got his paper mache leg broken by some skinny college student

you don't see **** like that happening to Mayweather