Wrong. You can't avoid a takedown from a great grappler when you don't know how defend against it, and it is a one-on-one scenario where the grappler knows he's fighting on a nice soft surface.
Tito Ortiz is nowhere near the best mma fighter. However in a fight with mma rules I'd give Lennox about two minutes before Lennox would be choked out. The time it takes Tito to walk across the ring and secure the choke.
Boxers definitely punch with devastating power. However, as I said before they are not prepared to defend a takedown. In addition, every punch they throw in a boxing match is not a blow with knockout power. They are used to accumulating points and inflicting damage over time due to the accumulation of punches. That is what happens when you use boxing gloves.
Lennox against a top mma fighter with a great ground game would flick a couple of light jabs that may or may not be eaten but the mma guy would still close in and get a takedown. Once on the ground, it's light's out...game over. Why do you think no heavyweight boxing champ ever took the Gracie's challenges? I bet Royce would be willing to fight Lennox under mma rules right now for $1million. Would Lennox take the challenge if it would be so easy? No.
sorry, not that simple
1. lewis has stopped guys much much much (add in 100 more much's) better fighters than tito within one minute of the first round as have many other fighters, so that kills the blanco 'accumulation' theory right there.
2. tito ALWAYS wears strikes whilst trying to get in. he is NOT going to wear a strike from lennox. prime lennox would hit tito harder than he's ever been hit before (including car crashes).
3. you are not going to simply shoot in on lennox. sorry, but if billy blow fly smith can tag tito coming in, put the house, your mother and everything else you own on lennox catching him coming him coming in, then refer to point 2.
4. lennox is a huge (6'5" 260lb),very strong, very athletic hw. tito is NOT going to walk over and take him down with ease...please, that's just silly.
5. lennox has excellent movement laterally, forward, back, etc whilst staying extremely well balanced. if all you've got is a shoot then, basically, you're a dead man walking. lewis is precision point accurate and he will see you coming from next week.
what you need to understand here is that a professional fighter of any potential will ALWAYS go where the money is. it's not hard to figure out, make hay while the sun shines because your career is not going to last forever.
this means that the only guys that go to the ufc are rejects, has beens and never weres. the ufc is the trailer trash of the fight business, no secret there.
for fuck's sake, the ufc hw champ only gets a few grand for a fight, of which he has to pay expenses.
this is why dana white keeps recycling the same fighters over and over again. everyone else is fighting for chump change.
i have no problem with you getting your facts wrong about tyson's managers, but please don't mention tito ortiz and lennox lewis in the same sentence again.
thank you.
