Man, that video says it all. No contest. The Sweet Science is light years better than that rolling around on the ground GARBAGE!!!
Very true.....Holly is now a MMA fighter however her foundation is boxing and that kick was set up primarily by her boxing acumen. The circling and straight left hands from the southpaw stance kept Rousey off balance and leaning to avoid the left and right into the kick that knocked her out. The fight between Rousey and Holm pitted two prime combat champions against the other, one a highly decorated MMA champion the other a highly decorated boxing champion who mad a move to MMA not very long ago. The reason fans are using this match up to illustrate this point is due to the significance of having the very best from both worlds (boxing and MMA) at their physical peak going head to head. This kind of match up has never happened before. We talk about James Toney or Ray Mercer but those guys were well past their primes when they decided to try their hand in MMA. And they didn't face the kind of MMA fighters who were also in their primes operating at the peak of their physical abilities. They were on their way out. Rousey and Holm are not in that kind of situation. They have a long MMA career ahead of them which serves as a benchmark for other cross combat sport matches that involves fresh dominant world champions against one another.
I wasn't surprised by the result, I picked tate to win a decision. Styles make fights and I felt she would fight cautiously and pick her spots like Pennington did.
Holly Holm still left boxing and went to MMA and became champ. You'll never see a top MMA fighter come to boxing and beat the best in the division.
This is a very confusing statement. What boxing mma theory are you talking about ? No one can say what anyone else believes. You do know they're totally different sports, right. Holly did move over to mma and demolished the hype that was rousey, she got choked out by a huge underdog, but she didn't punk out like conjob. She actually went to sleep, great win for tate. But holly was an undefeated champ and you can guarantee she'll be champ again. My favorite active fighters are split between the sports but my only mma favorites are stand up fighters. What you'll never see, ever is any mma fighter (male or female) compete in a boxing match with any top 20 or possibly top 50 of any division. Your boxing skills have to be too great to make that switch, where mma has proven on every single card that you can win against any of the best fighters being an average skill level. Impossible in boxing, because the submission aspect gives too many low level fighters legit chances. No one can tell anyone that one's better than the other, it's all subjective. It's like arguing people's favorite fighters list. One can't be wrong nor can one be right
Became champ by training MMA for 5-6 years. And don´t foget Ronda was a hype job bei Dana and Rogan. She had good grappling skills, but very ****ty footwork and stand up game. You´ll also never see a male top pro Boxer (don t matter which weight class) come to MMA and beat the best...no boxer in history would beat prime Fedor or prime Couture in an MMA match.
You give MMA fighter 5-6 years and he still ain't doing **** in boxing. Let's be honest, the level of talent required to be a top boxer is far higher since it's such a specific set of skills. In MMA you can make up for your faults because the sport is so versatile, that's not the case in boxing (or at least not to the same extent).
Same thing goes to saying a MMA fighter won't go to wrestling and win a gold medal, or to mui tai, or to kickboxing, or judo, or etc, and win there except if they come from that discipline. MMA makes fighters use all those arts, because they can. It is why a ju jitsu champion fighter might win in a submission against a boxing champion in a MMA fight. That point proves nothing. But I am in the end a boxing fan which I think tend to be more of an art than a mixture of them...