Comparing Boxing & MMA

why dont mma fighters fight in boxing matches?

I agree that most boxers will lose a fight in mma

but i also think even more mma fighters would lose in a boxing match!

Why is dana white and all these mma fans quick to say one is more superior than the other..

 

That is sort of the point.

No padding = more chance of a straight KO. Add to this that there is not 10 seconds for the fighter to recover just enough to get hit again. In MMA if you get knocked down you have the guy immediately trying to finish you.

It is much better for the brain to take 1 good KO shot than to take several padded almost KO shots; that is what causes the real long term damage, the repeated trauma, not the one hit KO's.

 

I don't know what to say when people say boxing is more elegant than MMA.. I tend to think of boxing as the more brutal and tedious sport. You can chop a tree down with an axe for example, and good technique will make the job go rather quickly. People are actually so good with an axe, it is a sort of art..

Or, you could take a tree down with a chainsaw, utilizing all the technological evolution man has come up with, along with your own technique and angle of cutting into the tree..

Both work, but the chainsaw is clearly the better tool so long as its functioning as it should.

MMA, is wrestling oriented, the rules and scoring heavily favors wrestling over all other disciplines to the degree that other disciplines that work better in a street fight are at a disadvantage. BJJ for example utilizes tons of small joint manipulations.. It's illegal to spike people on their heads in mma, or strike with vertical elbows, or kick people when they are down in MMA as it is now..

I think MMA easily more closely resembles real fighting than boxing does, but at the same time I look at boxing as more of a heavily refined, specialized art. MMA is more broad stroke, encompassing more aspects of fighting as a whole. Because of this, boxing is more brutal, as you only utilize the hands, making it far more difficult to finish an opponent off.

 

Would it be more enjoyable to watch two guys with axes go at each other as opposed to two guys with chainsaws?

In a battle of axe versus chainsaw,we know the man with the axe is in deep trouble if the fight goes to the ground.

 

Wow. He's such a moron. Nice excuse not to fight one of these guys and prove his point with the "they aren't at my level" BS.

 

good post..

 

It's the repeated blows to the head in a boxing bout that he's referring to, I believe. Cumulatively they are more damaging.

Cases in point: Bowe-Golota II or Tyson-Lewis

 

Maybe. As to what sport is potentially more 'brutal',my subjective opinion is professional boxing .