Heavyweight boxing champion still the baddest man on the planet or not?

wlad is like Lewis in that he's far too cerebral to ever be seen as the baddest man on the planet.

 

If our champ now was Sonny Liston or somebody like that then you wouldn't think whoever in mma was, now we just don't have that guy. We better have one soon though...:fire

 

Boxing is a single martial art, so at no point was that truly the case. It's just that other forms of fighting have never been popular in the west, in the modern era until now.

But no if you preserve the rule set of boxing and it is competing against a multi art discipline, then the world champ won't be seen as the main man. The talent pool in boxing is still a lot better but that is about the only advantage in such a comparison.

 

All im saying is that a guy called Tim Silvia was the UFC Heavyweight champion...

and a 49 year old Ray Mercer, retired, washed up, passed it boxer, in his one and only MMA fight...

...knocked out Tim Sylvia in the 9th second of the 1st round

...thats all im saying, make of it what you will

 

Anyone can get caught. Ray also got subbed by a novice youtube fighter.

The talent pool in mma is still shallow. If you take two equal fighters and one knows one martial art and the other knows multiple martial arts, then barring punchers chance, the latter wins.

It's more a case of what happens in the future if the sport grows.

 

MMA fighters are jack of all trades but not good at one of them, they should do it like when things like this first got popularised, have a boxing match for one round then a wrestling one for second round then a jousting match in the 3rd obviously theyd be changed around probably like boxing round 1 wrestling or whatever round 2 and whatever else round 3 and whoever wins majority or ko tap ect wins, that actually tests their individual skills in each discipline...

 

I'm 39 and as a kid I thought Six Million Dollar Man Col. Steve Austin could've kicked anyone's ass. :conf

 

The Klits brothers have a ton of a character and come off as good hearted.

Baddest man on the planet and HW will be one as soon as another Sullivan,Dempsey,Louis,Tyson type of fighter comes back.

 

The Klits are decent, respectable people but I'd never consider them the "Baddest Men on the Planet" they don't possess the characteristics or temprement to be considered such.

 

Could be far off from that happening who thought it would be this hard to get a fighter that actually wants to fight....

 

That MMGAY ***gotry is not even worth mentioning after that "heavyweight fight" between dos Santos and Velasquez

 

The heavyweight boxing champion as "the baddest man on the planet"? That was dumb then and it's dumb now. You really think that any heavyweight boxing champion would have an easy time with a wrestling champion of comparable size? The boxer's only chance would be to strike first and get a quick KO. Otherwise, the wrestler will take the boxer down and from there the boxer is at a huge disadvantage. And this is from before MMA even existed.