Can a really great street fighter beat a good pro-boxer?

I know it's not even remotely related to the thread, and an entirely random inclusion, but I have the strongest wanting of watching Zab Judah beat the bloody **** out of Arturo Gatti right now, too bad they never fought.

 

Every pro boxer.atsch :silly

 

atsch:roll:

 

The guy in your Avatar started out as merely a great street fighter, won a 1988 golden gloves without any formal boxing training, won his first pro fight the same year, then beat Forman for the WBO heavyweight championship in 1993.

 

the sad truth is yes. if he can get him on the ground and knows how to grapple. IF he is indeed a "really great" street fighter, he'll know how, and the boxer, having trained in nothing but standing up and punching, will be at a huge disadvantage.



You guys DO remember Kimbo/Mercer, right?

 

Ahh ok.

Learn somthin new every day.

 

Duran not only killed them IN the ring....he would have slaughtered them in the street. Just try to imagine a rampant Duran, fighting WITHOUT rules!

It is said that breaking him of the reflex to kick in the nether regions, was not a simple matter when he first began to box.

www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=8066&more=1

 

Duran grew up a street fighter in one of the toughest neiborhoods (Chorillo) in the western hemisphere

 

Mercer was 106 years old. ok 46.

 

This ******ed topic is back again?

 

It's simple, too many variables to come to a concrete answer.

 

Unless you have a few years of WingChun/WingTsun practice under your belt, you just don't know how effective this art is. Bruce Lee studied all fighting arts he could get his hands on, including boxing, but whenever he was serious about fighting, he went back to Wing Chun chain punching. Do you thing Frank Bruno admitted he would be beaten by a guy who was half his weight without good reason?

 

Frank was just being polite.

The thought of some 125lb. man taking on a monster like Bruno is quite scary actually.

 

He better damage Brunos knee quickly.

 

Kimbo isnt just a streetfighter though. He has had plenty of boxing training, enough to not get KO with the first punch thrown. Also even before the Mercer fight, he knew he could not beat Mercer standing so he was training alot of groundwork with former MMA champ Bas Rutten. The streetfighters without any form of training at all were the ones Kimbo was beating up in the streets, Kimbo was the boxer...just not a pro one.