5/30, Ray Mercer vs Tim Sylvia, boxing match

But if theres no MMA and its all boxing than I'll favor the boxer anyday...Sylvia is a great in MMA and arguably the best in the world...but Mercer is and always has been a boxer...2 different sports these are!

 

If Mercer loses to Tim Sylvia in a boxing match he has to retire. The man is 47. Nice little MD over the fake Sonny Liston but he has to ko Sylvia.

 

Yes, but Mercer has gone downhill so much I don't doubt a big guy like Sylvia who is an MMA striker to just wail on Mercer. Mercer in his prime would KO Silvia, but this Mercer? I'd like to think Mercer has enough to win a UD.

 

This is about Tim Sylvia, not Anderson Silva.


Anyway, I'd prob back Sylvia anyway. Mercer must be 50, wtf?

 

Tim Sylvia by UD

Mercer is a ghost.

 

I don't see Big Tim fairing very well in a pure boxing match. Mercer may be ancient, but this is his sport, and he was damn good at one time. In MMA, Sylvia is good because he can use his legs and sprawl and whatever else. In boxing, he's just another uncoordinated cream puff begging to get knocked out.

 

He won a olympic gold medal and IN HIS PRIME a 1time world champ who mixed it with the likes of Lewis and Holyfield in bouts that could of gone his way..