I hate most of the Boxing and MMA comparisons.

Riiiight. Go to your nearest Judo club and pick a fight with a brown belt. With Judo and Jiujitsu, although not perfect defense systems, the one thing I will say is that when you get a belt, you have to earn it. Most judo players these days cross trin in Jiujitsu or wrestling.

Being a good boxer won't mean sh*t when the judo player flips you on to concrete, then snaps your arm. But I guess the boxer would just "one punch" the guy, right?

 

The example you're talking about here is generally between two dimwits that don't know how to fight.

 

what if you had a IRONMAN suit?

should you get involved then if the guys with the weapons are killing your children or should you still walk away :rasta

 

Boxing is a fight, its a fist fight. Which is what 99% of fights are in the streets unless it a sloppy brawl inside a bar or something. I've seen vids of MMA fighters getting put to sleep in the streets, you won't see that of a boxer. Also one of the best MMA coaches said he would pick boxing as the most useful art in street defense, this is the guy that trained GSP.

UFC isn't even close to a street fight either, you can't knee downed opponents which is a very useful move in the streets.

 

Not to mention, if your main concern is street defense, is martial art even the best thing to go for anyway, why not get a weapon or something?

 

I think McGregor's star power is greatly overrated, I only see MMA fans online talk about him, I've never met a person that knows who Conor is.

 

Lmao walk into a judo gym? Did you read?

 

Have you ever been in a fight outside of a ring? If the answer is yes how long did it last?

 

Same, Ronda was way more popular than he.

 

Because you want to have some self defense skills without pulling out a weapon

 

Boxing is better in every respect. It's been around for centuries, and has stood the test of time. I would rather watch the dullest boxing match ever fought that watch a couple of guys roll around on the ground.

 

I laughed at that ignorant write off of judo as well.atsch
Must have never hear of Don Frye - gained 2nd dan Judo, great greco, good hands and a badass with a 'tache.

Apparently an Olympic medallist boxer in Australia several years ago had his arm snapped by a pro MMA fighter he did not recognise and tried to bully mid-workout at a fight gym so your example was a good one.

 

The boxing you watch has not been around for centuries. :deal

Boxing has involved weapons, head butts, gouges, wrestling, throwing and stomping, not to mention a million other now considered infrations along it's thousands of years of evolution through a number of cultures. What you see now is publicly acceptable sports entertainment distilled from that.

 

My comment was about defending yourself in real life situations not walking into a judo gym and challenging them to fight like a moron. Obviously they are skilled and dangerous. Your example is a one in a million situation. They rarely go down like that. Not saying boxers are invincible I'm saying that it generally more usual in self defense situations

Put it this way, if you are trying to defend yourself the safest way to do it is on your feet. Even mma fighters know this

 

^ This, more or less.

For the first half of its history, boxing was basically bareknuckle punching + judo-like throws. As late as the 1920's, most boxers trained a lot of wrestling.

For street self-defense, that combination still probably makes the most sense.