Anyone else tired of the conor mcgregor/mayweather "comparisons"

Yes, when you only have a limited way of doing something, doing that thing at a level greater than your competition becomes extremely hard to do. To dominate in MMA you don't need to reach as high of a level cap as you do in boxing. This is proven by the lower talent pool MMA has as compared to boxing.

 

Why so bitter? Why can't boxing fans get that boxing is just one aspect of mma?

 

Exactly. I read an interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently, who was the master of the sky hook in basketball. No one could stop it.

Jabbar said Bruce Lee told him once: "I'm not concerned about someone who practices 10 thousand kicks. I'm more concerned about someone who practices one kick 10 thousand times."

You have to master something to be great. Being "good" at a lot of things just means you're great at nothing.

 

MMA is a joke of a sport anytime a ex WWE wrestler brock lesnar can come into your sport and immediately win a HW title you know it's a joke. Anytime a former boxer like Holm with little experience in MMA beats the so called best MMA fighter of all time you know your sport is a joke. You will never see someone basically walk in off the street with little experience and beat a world champ in boxing it won't happen.

 

Lmao, you know you are talking about the father of MMA in Bruce Lee right?

And on that note he was philosophically opposed to the distilled nature of boxing. He preferred and developed his own style which would be a counter point to the strictness of boxing.

 

Then Brock got his ass thoroughly kicked by a real MMA fighter in Velesquez. Holly Holm is only one of the best female boxers of all time and she has been training in kickboxing BEFORE she became a boxer. Holm didn't just walk into MMA and started dominated. She had a kickboxing background.

Boxing fans are too bitter. I've learned to appreciate both sports over the years. I've been watching MMA since Keith Hackney punched Joe Son's nuts. The sport has matured so much since then and the Athletes are anything but low level.

People need to stop comparing the 2 and understand that both sports require different types of skills and training.

 

I think Chris Arreola had a bad one of those.

 

I never said it was better. I said it makes it harder to dominate in. There are lot of guys in MMA who are amazing at submissions, defending and applying. Gracie was able to beat men much larger than him just with his submission skills alone. Some are also quite good at kicking their opponents' heads off.

MMA fighters will never be as good as a elite boxer in boxing, but a boxer who started with boxing will never be as good at kicking, grappling or submissions compared to elite MMA fighters.

 

Yes. And he was more concerned by someone who had mastered and was great at one kick or one punch or one technique over someone who thought they were good at a lot of things.

"All" the "variables" didn't concern him. Someone who was a master at one thing did.

 

Lesnar was a ncaa national champion in "real wrestling ".
to become an ncaa national champion means that you're possibly good enough to pursue a spot on the Olympics after the ncaa career is over.
In other words.Brock Lesnar is an elite athlete despite his acting career with the WWE.

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Stop taking his words out of context and using them to support your agenda. He meant that in the context of mastering your core skills instead of doing everything, because martial arts is a very broad field. He didn't mean it in the context of boxing versus mma you doofus. Philosophically he discarded rigid and structured systems, like oh guess w t f, BOXING is rigid and structured. And just because mma allows almost the whole gamut of forms, it doesn't mean everyone in mma has to know all the aspects. In fact, no one masters everything because it's impossible to master everything, duh. That's why a lot of mma fighters specialize. And it's because of that specialization that they have so much variety, that is the crux of Metalickers point, that with so many forms it makes it extremely hard for any one individual to remain dominant for a long period of time.

He's not saying mma is better than boxing you dumbass.

 

Fail.

McGregor beat his Holly Holm in 10 seconds.

 

Where did you get that I was bitter about anything?