toney was ranked #52 in the world when he fought couture.Lets see how couture would do against a top 10 ranked boxer. He would get his head knocked off.
Couture against a 20 year old Tyson wouldn't even be funny. Now Couture against an average or subpar heavyweight what do you expect? There hasn't been a decent heavyweight for how many years? Toney is/was a fucking joke. Plus in the street a heavy weight boxer would demolish a guy like Couture anyways. People that extrapolate what they see in a padded octagon to a real life street fight are retards. It's easy to throw kicks when you are in your barefeet on a nice flat, padded surface with shorts on. It's easy not having to worry about your surroundings when you're in a perfectly round octagon with net sides and great lighting. LOL......MMA fighting is so far removed from real fighting it's hilarious. So of course a boxer isn't going to do much against a Couture MMAer. That's like putting a rugby player up against a basketball player.
I think it comes down to this..MMA fighters can't compete with boxers hands and footwork, just in the same respect boxers can't compete with MMA fighters grappling, takedowns, clinch, ground game, kicks, knees..fair enough?
Some MMA fighters have become pro boxers though.
I have noticed that MMA fans as well as MMA fighters themselves have no problem admitting that they would get crushed by a boxer if they stepped into the ring fighting under boxing rules. I also find it curious that it is the boxing fans, such as McMannus and Avery, that presume to speak for pro boxers, that claim that a boxer, of equal skill to an MMA fighter would beat them under any rules -- MMA or no rules street fighting. I have never heard, nor do I think I will ever hear, a top ranked pro boxer saying he could beat an MMA fighter in the Octagon or in the street. I think they are far more aware than most the limitation of their sport.
LOL.....So you're saying there is no difference between a pro boxer fighting someone in the street vs. fighting someone in an octagon with rules and a nice soft mat with which you can go to the ground on? If a parking lot an MMA fighters ground game is practically eliminated. Western boxing is one of the most formidable styles of fighting to know in a real fight. Plus all a boxer has to do if some MMA guy tries to grab him or put a lock no him or some other gay shit on the ground is pull a Tyson holyfield and bite his ear off. LMAO!
Serious question: How is MMA, which places far, far less rules and restrictions on their athletes than boxing so far removed from a real fight that it's "hilarious" when presumably a street fight means no rules?
Well, you didn't answer my simply and direct question so I will pose it again just in case it wasn't clear. Why would a fighting style which places far more restrictions on a person's ability to defend himself be more effective than a style that has far less restrictions in a street fight where there are no restrictions.And another question, and I'm simply going to have to trust your honesty and integrity, how many street fights have you had in you life? I can say that just getting through the 10th grade in the Hawaii public school system alone I probably had about 20. I recently, six months ago, had an altercation in a parking lot and it went to the ground. I effortlessly mounted, drop some B's on the thug, as he turned around on his stomach I didn't choke him out just yet, I grinded his face into the asphalt a bit so that his face will look very nice the next day. Then I choked him unconscious. My ears, or any other part of me, were never in danger of being bitten.
You teach a boxer like Vladamir Klitschkoe basic defense against kicks and put him in a no holds barred gloveless fight against an MMA guy in a parking lot and I GUARANTEE the MMA guy would get his ass kicked.
