Sylvia was coming off two consecutive title shots (UFC interm and the undisputed heavyweight championship) when he faced Mercer, and he was still ranked #6 in the world.
Only in MMA could a former pro wrestling goon become a champion in what? 4 fights! LOL I would love to see Brock Lesnar, or any previous MMA Heavyweight Champ fight Wlad in his 4th pro boxing match. I rest my case! To me there is nothing that shows victory and dominance over an opponent like the KO in boxing. Only in MMA is it consider acceptable to give up. Boxers are the true warriors of combat sports. Boxing requires a far greater degree of mental and physical toughness, and that is simple to illustrate. Why would all the so called fighters in MMA be fighting for peanuts in an organization that generates 100's of millions of dollars when they could box and make millions of dollars of rthemselves? Because they just couldn't cut it in the boxing ring.
HAHA. 100% of the time my ass. MMA guys try to train in so many different things, that they end up sucking at all of them. They throw slow sloppy, punches, and kicks, and act like they really are masters of all these different styles. GTFO! MMA guys are guys who didn't have what it takes to be pro boxers because if they did they would be fighting for millions instead of thousands. I mean come on, I'm not completey biased...guys like Silva, and GSP are good fighters. But I mean at the same time you have Brock Lesnar becoming HW champ, after only 3 of fights. You have rich franklin becoming champ, after quitting his job as a math teacher and watching dvds! These guys would get murdered by a c level boxer if they tried to do pro boxing this way. Its just way too easy to do MMA. I respect that those guys train hard, and work hard, but as of right now, the more talented athletes/fighters are in boxing.:good
Great point and i completely agree, the more like real fighting argument is and always has been ridicolous.
I find it amusing that a few infantile insults are all you could come up with to refute what I said. You write like you have yet to pass third grade English, and then you call me a dumb ****. LOL I don't have to insult you as you do a better job of making a fool of yourself then I ever could. The stuff you write is hilarious! Please don't stop.
Cintron could be the UFC champ, he got a full ride to OSU for wrestling and he's an amazing boxer...he'd wreck BJ Penn...:yep
Your opinion ignores what a full trained Muay Thai fighter would do to your boxer in the ring - the guy in my av is a great example. Won an Australian championship then went back to Muay Thai and K-1 at world level. If Thai fighters can punch, elbow, knee, kick, grapple, throw and run you over whilst going down under Thai rules how do you think a boxer fares with that. It is fact that Thailand has many quality boxing gyms and boxers and not one of them would ever consider putting a boxer against a Thai boxer in style versus style rules. If you consider this and add the techniques that MMA allows and take away the ones they don't then you might review your percentages. :think
Don't agree with your opinion. The Brock Lesnar angle is a pretty popular one these days but claiming he became HW champ after 3 fights bears looking at. How many hundreds if not thousands of wrestling matches at top level did he have growing up. And write of WWE all you want but could you even fake some of the moves, maintain the schedule for competition for a corporation demanding the best performance for weekly entertainment and then transition into a new sport and become successful. You bring up Rich Franklin - he is a lot more than you list. You again seem to ignore all the past training and competition history that these guys gained in their specialist sports. With Franklin's fitness using him as an example is wrong.:think This MMA versus boxing is stupid. Boxing is one of the most critical components of MMA training. And our boxing forefathers had a sport that allowed a hell of a lot of headbutts, elbows, forearms, grappling than some of todays commercially acceptable diet boxing matches. I see plenty of good boxing matches, plenty of good Muay Thai and MMA matches as well.
Or if you had any idea about boxing, you would realize that Thai fighting limits you to close range fighting, and that a boxers superior stance and range would make a Thai fighter's lose defense easily pentrable. They stand right in front of you, squared up. There isn't one Thai boxer athlete in the same stratosphere as elite boxers.
My fave line here is "all punching boxing". I used to think boxing was punching with a bit of kicking. Glad that got straightened out.