What happen to Jeremy Williams(Boxer-mma)?

The cruiser division up until a few years in an audacious move by the IBF was 190lbs. To my knowledge im pretty sure Williams has always been around the 200lb mark. Semantic may be. But there certainly is a big diffrence between making 190 and 200lbs espcially as Williams has always been a relatively small heavy.

 

The cruiserweight limit has varied over the years. For a time in the 80's, and maybe the early 90's as well, the limit was 195lbs.

Jeremy Williams competed at 81kg/178 lbs as an amateur. He lost to Montell Griffin in the '92 Olympic trials. Williams weighed 195 lbs. in his professional debut, also in 1992.

 

Either way, Williams ices Kimbo, but is past it in boxing and too old to learn MMA. His grappling is ok from what I've seen, but his takedown defense is not good enough. His grappling isn't terrible but it will never win him real fights, and his takedown defense means most of his fights are hitting the ground.

 

I agree with most of what you say here, especially about Kimbo.

What I disagree with here, and it's not just you, is this notion people can't learn how to grapple at a certain age. I don't know if most people are looking at it from their own perspectives, and feel they could not find the time to learn enough from their local gyms to compete in mma. A lot of these fighters, like Williams or Kimbo, have all day to learn new techniques. Another important thing to remember is that MMA is different from sports like boxing or wrestling. MMA has many more moves and techniques available. The more moves available, the less one has to rely on athletic ability. Randy Couture would probably get handled rather easily if he tried to wrestle with the world's top Greco Roman practitioners at this day and age. Couture is still a top Heavyweight in today's MMA scene.

I believe that the odds are stacked against a 30+ fighter with limited experience, I'm not denying that. I don't believe it to be some scientific law that says they don't have a chance. MMA is not like some of the ninjitsu movies from the '80s, claiming you must begin training as a child. Some mma practitioners develop rather quickly after only 2 years experience.

 

I agree with that, I'm just going off the grappling I've seen, its very mediocre to say the best. Usually guys who are going to be prodigys are apparant, he certainly is not.