rubbish,,,,,,, the pool of talent boxers go thru to reach the top makes ufc look totaly amature, and as if the boxers couldnt learn to fight ufc style... put tyson, manny pac, ricky hatton in against a ufc fighter the same weight and theyd kill them
Exactly!! Anyone that knows boxing knows how many years and how much work goes into becoming great at it.
Brock Lesnar decided 8 months ago to fight mma and although he has a wrestling backround there is alot more to know....I think he will become a pretty good heavy weight fighter in a short time...
I guarantee if he chose boxing instead, he would never get past the golden glove amatuer level...big difference.
Phil Baroni, who I know and like and respect very much, chose to pursue mma and NOT boxing even though he was training for kick boxing, but never using his legs.... He realized that he could become great at mma, but Boxing, even with the huge money involved, would probably never get to a open golden gloves win.
Sure anyone can turn pro in boxing, but where does that get you when you have to step up to a guy that won golden gloves, empire states, junior olympics and olympic team and still isn't the champ?
Much different disciplines.
Like we've discussed before here, if you just take a skill that BOTH athletes have and use (striking with FIST) and let them go, mma guys would get there asses handed to them by a second tier boxer....A top tier would simply make them look ridiculous.
If they wanted to do mma, skills that a boxer NEVER developed then it would be ridiculous and the mma guy would win in most cases. That, however, is ridiculous to compare...almost like comparing the hitting ability of a center fielder to a American League pitcher that hasn't picked up a bat in 15 years.
If we are to compare at LEAST make comparisons based on disciplines or skills BOTH athletes train, ya follow?
Enough of the boxing mma comparisons, it ridiculous after a while.