If your an athlete and your your choice of sports is contact sports ,and your good enough to compete professionally it's pretty much two choices Boxing and MMA Randy Couture said people get into MMA because they don't have the hand skills to become top level boxers I agree i mean how many times have you seen an MMA fighter throw a punch and said "That guy throws a punch as good as any boxer" Also think of how much more money any champion boxer makes compared to their MMA counterparts.. Whats your take??
So? Thing is, is that MMA fighters, although lacking in their punching technique compared to Boxers (and if you understood MMA, you'd know that a Boxing stance is BEGGING for leg-kicks), it really is only one part of the puzzle. Besides, look what happened when Randy faced a Boxer... It's not like Randy was 25 and James was some no-hoper! I can't think of a Boxer who is the best in their division right now that I'd favour of an MMA'er who is the best in their division. But would I like to see MMA'ers have better punching technique? Sure. But if that means that the punching is better and another facet of their game suffers, then no, I wouldn't want to see it. Another thing - You have got to understand the sport was started in '93. There's already guys like Chuck that earned $14 mill out of a 7/8 year career. For a sport that's in it's infancy, not only in general terms, but compared to Boxing, I think the fighters are doing ok.
Its not a boxing MMA comparison its whether you believe what Couture said is the truth Athletes that get into contact sport is it just the hands that make them decide on their choice between the two? Or other things is a guy who can catch flies out of the air always gonna want to be a boxer?
mma has a wider range of options for athletes. I think of boxing as a sort of rifle, and mma a shotgun when it comes to attracting athletes. In the end I really don't think there is any choice for any athlete, they get pulled in a certain direction and that's how it goes.
As long as you don't mind being a ***** to Danna White and his org. You see the Irish dude McGregor doing 1m ppv. What was he paid?
I don't think it's as black and white as that, but it's clearly harder to compete in boxing than MMA.
Well obviously, a kid growing up on a background of wrestling or judo, which is a huge segment of youth in america, as its a middle school and high school sport, is going to go into mma to make money... why would they go into boxing?
MMA is not as diverse as they make it out to be. Rarely does anyone punch on their feet and it is mostly wrestling and jujitsu.
Not necessarily, each discipline has a certain emphasis and as a result its different strokes from different folks.
Reasonably true but Couture ignored countries where Muay Thai has grown at the expense of boxing well before MMA got established.
1 million PPV x $50 = $50 million Live Gate = $7 million plus Total income for UFC 189: $57 million plus sponsorship McGregor's Salary: $500,000 plus $50,000 bonus. That is a pathetic amount considering the revenue he helped generate for the UFC.
As I understand it PPV headliners get a percentage. Apparently GSP, Lesnar, Couture, Ortiz, Liddel etc all got a cut which usually took their pay into the millions.
Punching mechanics in MMA are not the same as in boxing,it all boils down to the rules,you wont plant your feet as much with bare feet or countering leg kicks ,grappling..etc. in a cage...Put the 4 ounce Gloves in pro boxing and you would see different champions..again its all mechanics that make the game.I cant say Randy is wrong however this old statement is not entirely true,many great strikers are in MMA but they just wont excel under boxing rules and gloves as it takes a long time to get used to punching with big gloves on .
True I forgot the PPV %. No word on what McGregor got. GSP once generated 950,000 buys on PPV. At $50 a pop, that would mean $47.5 million. GSP's bonus was $5 million for that event. It's a nice pay day, but I can't help but feel if he was a boxer generating that amount of PPV buys he'd have a much, much higher pay day.