If mma is better than boxing as it's closer to reality

If you focus on grappling, then yeah. But MMA is about mixing the right style or styles for any given situation. An MMA athlete worth his salt would probably stay on his feet and go strike-and-move if he's facing more than one opponent.

EDIT: Better yet, if he's fighting against a group and he's good enough, he might grapple the arm of one of his attackers and throw him at another one.

 

there is like 4 good strikers in MMA, Overeem, Silva, Kharitonov, and Fedor


the rest is a bunch of wrestlign ***gots who just hold guys down for 15 minutes, its more like a competition than a fight

 

Fedor's more ground and pound, really. He takes you off your feet and then makes your face a pizza.

 

thiago alves, melvin guillard, shogun, bones jones are a few to add also:good

 

the only true way of finding a winner to boxing vs mma is.....


They go on the deadliest warriors show and some nerds who no jack **** about fighting will tell us whos deadliest. mmkay?

 

:deal

 

These MMA is better than boxing is better than BJJ is better than whatever else arguments never prove anything.

 

Paul Bergen beat 9 chicanos in a barrio club in S chitown. He was using haekido, jujitsu, and tai kickboxing . He was about 6'3 235, and the chicanos were untrained guys who ranged from 5'5-6'2 120-300lbs. When Bergen left the club, he had only a gash over his left eye from a stool, about 6 lacerations on both forearms from busted beer bottles, and several broken knuckles(fighter's fxs) on both hands from bashing their skulls in the headlocks.

I KOd the first mexican who threw a punch at me for dancing with his chica, then was tackled and occupied by another for about 3 minutes before cradling his head in my lap and beating into a Lewis/VitaliLIKE state. After he was rendered unconscious, I simply watched as Bergen dissembled mexicans like I was watching a steven segal movie.

I guess I instigated the brawl, being a Rockwell/Homan TWOSIX, and dancing with a Latin Queen. The club we were in was on 51st and California, the heart of the Albany Latin Kings.

It was kind of fun seeing a nuetral peace loving martial artist destroy my childhood enemies like they were ragdolls though.

MMA is Definitely better when your'e being jumped, or in a streetfight.

 

who cares, what boxers do is more difficult than MMA...

 

Cool story bro'

 

There is no such thing.

Every "street" fight is different. Any time two people engage in serious hand to hand combat in a non-trained non-competitive scenario, there are about a zillion variables at play. It's stupid to assume discernable order out of such chaos. The idea that it will "always go to the ground" and resemble a jiu jitsu match is a complete myth.

Sometimes people get KTFO with one punch.

Sometimes it's rock'em sock'em robots for upwards of half an hour.

Sometimes one person chases the other around a room while the other slaps at them (and it resembles a pressure fighter trying to walk down an outside boxer/runner).

Sometimes, yes - it involves more kicking and hip-tossing (like MMA stand-up).

Sometimes, yes - one person tackles the other earthward either intentionally or not, and they wind up rolling around instinctively trying to get superior positioning.

Sometimes it's just ****ing chaos.

Quite often "real" fights resemble boxing. Often they resemble MMA. Often they resemble neither.

Real fighting - be it a drunken barroom brawl or someone fending off a mugging or a skirmish involving any mix of citizens/militiamen/terrorists (anyone other than officially combat-trained personnel like soldiers, cops, and martial athletes) - is completely unpredictable. You can't say as a general rule that it's "like" any one thing.

 

that last bit is ****ed up.

 

:thumbsup

 

Thats about the best way I've seen that put. Not to mention in a REAL fight, it usually never ends up one on one in the end.

 

In the end, they're both sports. Boxing is the oldest of them all pretty much, and MMA is one of the newest. Boxing is far more advanced as a sport and is vastly superior to MMA.