Mercer KO'd Sylvia in 9 seconds

Saying that all boxing fans have **** for brains or are as dumb as creationists would be reductive.

But when you see threads like this
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147939

& this
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147914

It seriously makes you wonder. Are boxing fans all dumb as **** ? I doubt it , i myself am a huge K1, boxing & MMA fan. I appreciate all 3 sports. (though some combat sports detractors would argue that people who enjoy watching two human beings beating on each other have low IQs)

ANYWAY... , here's a reality check.

I'm not gonna pat myself on the back but i was actually thinking something like this would happen.

Why ? Here was my reason. (this was posted before the fight)
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4253841&postcount=16

and i quote: "something tells me he won't do that"


Sylvia is an absolute ****ing moron , he couldn't do the job a bum like Kimbo slice could. It was pretty damn easy. He just had to take him on the ground but Noooooo...

It doesn't matter if he's an ex-ufc champion because an mmaer fighter who tries to play a boxer's game will be reduced as a bum.

Just like Mercer was vs Kimbo. (when a boxer tries to fight under mma rules) Of course , this fact becomes totally irrelevant if the said mma fighter tries to just attack a boxer standing...

Here's what Sylvia should've done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DahOLe5z3Ek

LISTEN to what Sylvia says at 0:19.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruvhs1Ua-0w

His pride got in the way and he paid for it. Like i said in this post
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4253841&postcount=16

Even at his age , Mercer would easily own a huge majority of mma fighters and especially a slow striker like Sylvia. and it predictably happened.

However , this still doesn't invalidate the boxing vs mma fighter argument (that we had in this thread)
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144371

Threadstarter , (Metal Man) , is clearly a moron and obviously what happened in this fight (mercer vs sylvia) will just further reinforce his own dumb convictions.

The way i see it , Mercer vs Sylvia perfectly illustrates what i was saying about Mayweather & the bums who would easily beat him in an instant (that is , under mma rules). & the opposite is also , valid. Anyone who tries to attack a boxer at his own game will be ridiculed.

Ironically , it didn't happened with Sylvia (who certainly has way more experience than Kimbo) , but it's because he went into this fight , thinking he could beat Mercer standing.

Any mma fighter who's ****ing dumb enough not to take advantage of mma's lesser restrictive rules doesn't deserve any better.

it is pretty easy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAIgNhVT3Zs

But Sylvia had to do the contrary.

 

Yes he did. UNDER MMA RULES. If that was Marquis of Queensbury im sure you know what the result would have been.

 

What kind of stupid ****ing maths is that? Fedor has beaten 5 former UFC heavy champs. He destroyed both AA and Silva in under a round. AA and Silva were the UFC's heavy champs. Those were the guys Dana was touting as HIS champions in MMA and the best heavies on the planet. If anything it just exposes the shambles the UFC heavyweight division has always been. In no way shape or form does it take anything away from Fedor who done a job that cannot even be questioned. If that fight was under Boxing rules the result would have been the same. Thats the nature of the fight game ANYTHING can happen.

 

Damn! Not a smart idea for an MMA fighter to stand up straight and try and box with a boxer.

Old ass Larry Holmes also reportedly KOed one of these MMA bums with only 5 punches in a sparring match.

 

hmmmmm...well Tim was preparing for a boxing match and didn't learn up until recently that it was going to be a MMA match. that accounts for somthing i think

i remember preparing for a boxing smoker and hearing that the other fighter on the fight day didn't show up so had to do kickboxing. i had been boxing for a month up until then and could barely mannage myself to throw a kick

i was in that boxing mind state

also i've never seen Tim shoot for a takedown.

i don't want to take anything away from Mercer tho. he steped to his right away from Tim's power and Tim steped to his left towards Ray's power.

Ray reacted on instinct and landed a cross over Tim's jab

 

really? wow lol

i guess Timmy was just waiting to hit the flying scissor heel hook

 

Garbage post.

 

Tim Sylvia vs A. Arlovski for the "Rico Spadafora's GJJ (Glass Jawed Joke) title of the world".
Let's get it onop.

 

And it was an mma fight, was originally supposed to be a boxing match but was changed to mma rules 2 days before the fight. Ray beat a ufc champion at his own game !

 

Wow your a real intellectual titan aye? What kind of backward ass logic is that? Why would i waste my time debating an academic point with a noob? Let me guess GSP must be a can because he got beat by Serra right? What Liddell he must be another can because he couldnt beat Jardine. The same Jardine who got destroyed by a shot Silva right?

You glibly ignore the volatility of the fight game to take away credence from Fedors victories when Fedor annihilated Tim in under 30 seconds and did the same with AA in just over a few minutes when they were the UFC's former heavy champs. I guess GSP might as well call it day. Idiot.

 

a flush punch from a heavy hitting former world champ in mma gloves when you have been proven to have a glass chin is not going to work out well.

great punch and good win

 

Its good that Kimbo didnt box Mercer or he would have been knocked out as well.

 

The only reason for thinking that is his age, Tim Sylvia always looked like a big, awkward, bumbling idiot in his standup.

 

a joke fight? i bet sylvia doesnt find it funny lol

 

theres life in the old dog yet:good