This is untrue. The elite strikers of MMA are just as good as the best punchers in boxing. Sometimes they may appear to strike cautiously or akwardly because they must take into account what boxers never have to - a counter kick, knee, elbow, judo throwdown or a punch that's not encased in 10oz of pillows. Also because of all these options, stand up fighters typically fight at a greater distance from each other than boxers, which does affect the power and precision of their hand strikes.
You are kidding right?? Chuck Lidell was an "elite" striker in MMA. In boxing he couldn't ko a club fighter. Dude, take the gloves off a professional boxer and they would break peoples faces in seconds. I guess you really don't understand just how hard many of them really punch. Just think about how hard Adamek punches and compare that the Lidell or any of the guys in mma.
Yes, hit yourself on the head some more. Thanks to headbaskets like you in boxing , who prefer to pretend that MMA is like WWF and will just go away, boxing has had a very significant market share snatched away by UFC and countless other MMA organizations. Its very convinient to take all the positive aspects of one sport and stack them up against everything you dislike in the other.
Boxing is the sport of kings MMA is where you go if you can't box. Right alongside WWF and dogfighting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXgZLguFMQA Griffen garbage chin, if he Boxed, he'd get dropped hatton style by ANYBODY vs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzWSbhYiMEI :bbb:bbb, theres no comparison.
BOTH MMA and Boxing are things of beauty when practiced with great precision and technicality. Both can also be dreadfully horrible to watch when the practitioners are not highly skilled, polished and trained. Watch a polished BJJ grappler drop down and seamlessly lock in a submission hold and you'll quickly understand how much training and strategy is involved in that sport. On the surface, it looks like a couple of street thugs kicking and wrestling. I can assure you, it goes a lot deeper (in most cases) than that. With that said...my first love is still boxing. If I were asked to give up one for the other there would be no thought involved, boxing all the way. But I do see too many defenders of boxing that are too quick to dismiss MMA as a joke and a passing fad. Most, if not all of these guys have never been in over their head with a truly skilled fighting machine. Who would win in a boxing match? 99% of the time the boxer will. Who would win in an MMA rules fight? 99% of the time the MMA fighter will. Who wins on the street? Those who have done both (for years with proper practice) know the answer to that question.
That's such a tired argument. Why would you expect an athlete in one sport to cross over into unfamiliar territory and compete in a totally different sport? Obviously painful is the fact that this argument can be applied both ways, with legendaries like Ali and Foreman being raped inside an MMA ring in the first round, by the most average MMA competitors. The point is, these comparisons are irrelevant and inappropriate. I can pick countless MMA fights in its very short history, that would dazzle any sport enthusiast with an open mind.
The one thing I'll say about MMA, UFC in particular is you'll see a lot more brutal knockouts, and in my opinion, better stoppages. Maybe its just because I'm in the UK but I've seen a lot of bull**** stoppages in fights here that really ruin the whole thing, UFC know when to call it I think. But I guess thats because they have less fights and know when to call it a day. It's not about keeping your career going for as long as possible there, its more like rising to the top asap it seems. But still, they have their differences and I enjoy both.