There was never a question that MMA guys lack the stand up strikes to compete with a PRO boxer. Or at least a skilled PRO boxer. But to say MMA guys are "un-skilled" that is untrue. They just aren't versed well in the "sweet science" and if you try to bang with a boxer you aren't gonna make it out of the round. Just like if the boxer tried to take the MMA guy to the ground his chances of survival is slim to none.
They're superior in every fighting department except for punching. It's kind of crazy that people would ever think MMA fighters are even comparable to boxers in terms of punches. They're worlds apart, boxing in MMA is only one element.
It's fair to say that it easier for a Boxer to learn MMA than the other way around. BTW the vids of guys taking other guys down and choking them out shows just how random wins and losses can be in MMA. MMA lacks long standing dominant champs(barring Fedor of course)
QFT. And also, Tim Sylvia is WAY ahead in terms of skills and accomplishments in MMA than that fruad Kimbo I think that was Mercers first fight too.
If Mercer had submitted Tim, that would have been embarrassing, the fact he knocked him out comes as no surprise. Some people on this board seems to think that this fight somehow proves something? What does it prove? A boxer can out punch a MMA guy? Anything can happen in a fight? You really think this is news? Grow up. This fight doesn't change a thing so all the ******s singing Mercer's praises will soon realise that no one cares.
The trouble with most wrestlers and mma fighters is they come to learn boxing at too late an age for it then to come natural to them,when I boxed I saw this myself with a coule of judo fellas and more recently a really good MMA fighter.
At the time on that night there was not another heavyweight in the world that could have remained on their feet and not been KO'ed by Morrison,the shots Ray took were inhuman.His entire head was made of granite never mind just his jaw.
a while back lol when he was in the ufc he beat brandon vera. Since then he loss to noguiera-fedor and mercer I could understand losing to feodr and noguiera since both are considered top heavyweights but losing to mercer in an mma matchatsch
Yeah, if it wasn't a fixed fight Mercer would have used his great wrestling skills to stop the takedown. Wait, what?