Would Alistair Overeem Do Well In Boxing?

Glass chin

He got starched by that ****** Liddell for crying out loud

 

He'll no... Dude is the chinniest fighter of all-time.
He would get KTFO against jounrneyman HW's.

 

Let's not be too hard on the guy. He's not just chinny, his stamina is just as bad.

 

Yeah, to be fair

It's not his chin

It's his gassing that does him in

Starts the fight great
10 seconds later can't stand up by himself

 

I don't think he would be.

His greatest assets are his knees, which are devastating, but ultimately worthless in a boxing match. His hands are okay by MMA standards, but at an elite boxing level, they are not very good at all.

Also, he's very chinny. Has always been, it's not just his recent fights.

He's a great fighter with a bad chin, but he wouldn't do well in boxing. What he's best at isn't boxing.

 

no, he is a bum.

 

Without the horse and roids this guy would get starched by the likes of Seth Mitchell or Lucas Browne.

 

Vitor is the mma fighter I've ever seen who looked like he'd achieve any approaching low level journeyman success.

 

Vitor's hand speed is ridiculous, but I don't think he has the heart to go rounds. He's a front-runner in the clearest sense of the word. If he gets behind at all, he tends to give up, but if he can stay ahead he looks amazing. In a close 12 round fight, I could him after the 3rd round telling his corner, "it's too close. what's the point of continuing?"

Maybe it's the fact he never endured any hardships growing up and came from an affluent family, but he just doesn't seem to have that will that defines a great fighter.

He would certainly deliver some great 1st or 2nd round KO's but eventually he'd run into someone who figures him out and he would give up and lose.

 

Tough man contest yes. professional boxing Hell no

 

A guy KO'd over a dozen times in MMA and K-1 will surely have no issues dealing with the power of professional boxers.

 

Amazing please stop these threads. There are as useless as they are repetitive. They always degenerate into pissing contests between different combat sports.

 

Yes, first as far as Alistair for boxing FORGET it. His boxing skills are below par even for MMA and K-1. Yes he can throw a decent left hook. However, his fight success from his start has been built on his Muay Thai Boxing skills witch focus on vicious knees from a powerful stand up head/neck clinch far more than BOXING skills. Overeems knees are the best in business so yes as far as K-1 goes he was great as well in MMA he was great even though he obviously roided up almost a bit like I recall Holyfield morphing into heavyweight, they were just so physically strong with decent agility and athleticism they were a tough match up. So as far as BOXING goes forget it for Overeem, even with all the steroids in the world he would never make a good boxer, boxing is TOUGH, so detailed, so methodical when it comes to what works and what doesn't, its not a sport that one can pick up in their 20's and excel at on a high level without major limits in ones game.

Same for Vitor, yeah sure Vitor has some better pure boxing skills when compared to Reem but even then I don't think Vitor would make it as a boxer. To make it as a boxer is hard as hell.

What mma fighter do I think would do well at boxing ?? Sheesh, maybe NOBODY, somebody with some kind of iron jaw like Dan Henderson COULD do well. Not saying Dan Henderson, lol, the thing with boxers is ONE has to be able to take far more HEAD blows on a regular basis to go any where in boxing. One could be FANTASTICALLY gifted offensively and could land far more shots far harder than is landed upon themselves and ONE still has to take FAR more HEAD blows. Take a look at a prime Mike Tyson, he has to be one of the all time FASTEST HeavyWeight boxers of all time in his prime. Not just handspeed but head and body movement and ability to CLOSE in on a opponent quickly catching them off guard. One of THE FASTEST. Take his fight with Trevor Berbick when he won his belt in 2 or 3 rounds however long it went. In that fight Tyson is all over Berbick, regardless, if ONE watches that FIGHT tape Tyson still gets hit with GOOD shots that would PAUSE and throw off a lot of fighters. Nobody notices them as Tyson walks right through them landing harder shots of his own. How? He had fought from a early teen taking HARD SHOTs to land HARDER SHOTs. I think it would surprise how many great boxers never went very far in boxing simply because you cant just have a OK CHIN, having a OK CHIN in boxing is a DEATH sentence. In MMA its not a death sentence, its a liability that is limiting that can be overcome far more than in boxing. The amount of TOP LEVEL MMA fighters that get tired out and stand trading with BULL**** arm punches as soon as they get tired and into a difficult fight is horrendous. The technique flies out the window so often as soon as the fight gets into deeper waters. Simply using the focus to plant, pivot and throw solid punches even when having trouble hitting ones opponent is critical.

I love my MMA and my BOXING, don't favour one over the other, MMA would hand Vladdy his arse and vice versa. Ok rant over.