MMA Vs Boxing "Striking and footwork"

You're a ******.

 

You don't have a clue about MMA, please don't comment on it. That was an INCREDIBLY ignorant statement. That'd be like me saying boxers are nothing but bums out of prison who need something to do to make a living so they fight each other like savages in a ring.

 

You forget the part where the MMA fighter would not try to stand with a boxer, but instead opt to take the fight directly to the ground, where the boxer is powerless. Seriously, why do you people feel the need to speak on something you so obviously don't understand or comprehend?

 

Boxing and MMA are two completely different sports, I cant understand why these type of threads seem to come up every other day, all it does is make the posters that support the UFC come on and argue with the posters that support Boxing, 99 times out of 100 the agruements settle nothing, everyones too caught up in there own opinion to change there way of thinking, I guess you can call it ignorance in most cases.

 

He could always try clinching. That little time out boxers like to take would be used against them, big time.

 

The point is, boxing has a limited rule set. To say it is therefore the BEST for of fighting in ANY circumstamce is counter intuitive.

 

And boxers NEVER clinch, right? You are assuming that they can stay on the outside and punch and dictate.

 

Ah. And here we get to the point. My son has been buying boxed sets starting with the older matches. MMA is what it is today precisely because it has EVOLVED. No one discipline dominates. The 'survivors' have learned to adopt the best/most useful of all available. And even in that, the groin is off limits. Not so in a real fight.

 

Total conjecture based on personal bias.

 

But that works against them in MMA, so there is no advantage. You really think they could deal with some one with a good kick? First sound low kick they drop their hands and get kicked in the head. So, in each case, you have a fish out of water.

 

And your basis of this statement is what? There are lots of posts on this board about how much Kelly Pavlik gets hit. And others. Compubox numbers for fights show lots of landed punches for boxing. Provided we aren't being bored to death with the low output, clinching (boxers version of laying on each other).

 

Shhhh! Don't clue them in. You might have to fight them in a bar some day.

 

Obviously , they're not boxers to begin with. They're not even rejects of that sport , most have a wrestling , judo or bjj background...and then they make the transition to mma...a good portion of em come from adcc competitions...

 

You guys act like protecting against a takedown is something that takes years to master, or fighting on the ground. I took both wrestling and boxing in high school, and boxing is way more difficult to grasp (I was a much better wrestler than boxer).

I believe a world class boxer who had 6-12 months to train in wrestling, BJJ, and Muay Thai would work any MMA fighter (with a few exceptions, I believe some guys in MMA could never be world beaters in a boxing ring, but are the real deal at fighting). That's the thing, I believe a boxer would have a chance in a MMA fight but an MMA fighter would have no chance in a boxing ring.

 

That is the exact same as saying "you are acting like it takes years to learn to punch and not to get punched."