Theres fighters fighting for 1000 dollars in king of the cage that would destroy Cotto. So would Roger Huerta. Specialize in something and do it extremely well.. Too bad in a real fight against a well rounded fighter its completely useless.
Thats about the dumbest **** i ever heard. So whats an mma guy gonna do to me in a street fight , shoot for my legs. good choice dumb****. My buddies will just stomp you. Punching ends fights quicker than anything you stupid ****. Keep believing the bull**** homie, your gonna run you mouth to the wrong person and find yourself at the end of a quick combination. MMAers WISH they could throw like boxers, instead they will fight for peanuts, while average boxers make more than your MMA heros. The talent pool in your sport is ridiculous. You have guys JUST starting in their mid-20's thinking they're the **** while boxer have been training since elementary school.
You can pretend whatever you want.. but its been shown over and over in mma that a wrestler overwhelms a striker much more often than not. You right that the talent pool in mma is not where boxing is right now.. though i think thats changing quickly. MMA is now seen as a legitimate career path for olympic caliber atheletes.
Tell it like it IS!!! :good Not only that, watching those guys roll around on the ground is BORING as ****, too.:yep These UFC clowns should STFU. Their WWF-like antics can't compare with REAL man-to-man fighting, BOXING!! :nod
Man, Dana White probably told Huerta to say that. Shitting on boxing to promote MMA is White's specialty, and Huerta is poised to be his new poster boy to draw in Mexican fans. I don't really give a **** though. It's nothing new on the MMA vs. Boxing front. I will say that Huerta is much better than I thought. I picked Guida in that fight.
Well, to be fair, the American unified MMA rules give wrestlers a huge advantage, but your point is valid. A striker with no ground game is going to get tooled by a decent grappler any day of the week.
I was always taught that men fight with their hands... Leave all the kicking and other bull**** to women and children. Who the **** cares what Huerta said about boxing. Boxers make so much more money its a joke.. I have to think these guys would be boxing if they had the skills to be successful at it, even if just for the financial aspects....
that's pretty stupid from huerta. pbf performance made it even more stupid as that was the best performance we've seen from floyd in a while now. huerta ain't got nothing on pbf and hatton. hatton would hug him to death. ask him how much he made in that fight. i'm guessing it's not enough to be pbf lunch money. i am a fan of both sports. i've been watching since the start of the ufc and have been a fan of boxing before that. i hate it when athletes take a jab at each other. it's like kobe bryant saying that there's more action in a laker game than there was in a nfl game. it was a stupid comment. he was trying to console himself because millions and millions of people chose to pay for that boxing event when onle a few people tuned it to see him fight on free tv. huerta is a good fighter and had a great performance against guida but the jab was uncalled for. i reckon that both hatton and pbf did not even know that there was an mma card that night.
Well, botha, nernardo, mighty mo, mark hunt (to an extent) and crocop all started out boxing and learned to check leg kicks. How good did they get again? Punchign will always be the main weapon used in a standup fight. kicking was made up by bitches who was scared to get in punching range.. once you learn to check the leg kick, its lights out from there
When boxing is at its best (Castillo - Corrales) - there is NOTHING that can even match that. Sadly there are too many defense first boring boxers. . . Spinks Fraud Dirrel Malagnagi Briggs Byrd Hopkins etc etc there arent nearly as many boring fighters in MMA.
The younger generation is on average more interested in boxing. Sad fact. Hope boxing could turn things around. I thought the MMA event this Saturday was ok. Nothing spectacular. It was free though. This content is protected