Tyson Fury: "MMA is for people who can't box!"

Two different sports each with their own rules and so not intrinsically comparable. In general boxing could be viewed as a more specialist sport and as a rule a specialist will perform better in a generalist sport than a generalist will perform in a specialist sport. Boxing is superior to MMA

Two different sports each with their own rules and so not intrinsically comparable. In general boxing could be viewed as a more specialist sport and as a rule a specialist will perform better in a generalist sport than a generalist will perform in a specialist sport.

He's right. MMA is for people who can't box. Always has been. Theaganes, boxer. Klietomachos, boxer. Rough and Tumble fighters who were really good at rough and tumble would graduate to London Prize Ring Rules when they were good enough. The **** else do you need to know? Got like 3k years of open or laxer rules sports that allow much more range of techniques getting their asses handed to them by boxers. Good post. :boxing:

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but that's not their main area of expertise. And for the people who think a boxer can just walk into the octogan with a few months of training is deluded. It takes years to become a highly skilled MMA fighter. Defending a takedown takes years to master and without that boxers in the cage are useless and vice versa with boxing, despite his vaunted power Conor couldn't leverage his punches. Tyson sounds a bit jealous of the media attention his fellow Brit is getting and misses the limelight. Ever since he disappeared all he does is attack other fighters on Twitter, forgetting he basically threw away his career. A proper counter right will send anyone shooting for a takedown into the canvas.

but that's not their main area of expertise. And for the people who think a boxer can just walk into the octogan with a few months of training is deluded. It takes years to become a highly skilled MMA fighter. Defending a takedown takes years to master and without that boxers in the cage are useless and vice versa with boxing, despite his vaunted power Conor couldn't leverage his punches. Tyson sounds a bit jealous of the media attention his fellow Brit is getting and misses the limelight. Ever since he disappeared all he does is attack other fighters on Twitter, forgetting he basically threw away his career.

Hilariously, Fury can't box either - he's not allowed. Not allowed because there's a conspiracy to keep him unlicensed as long as possible because he's too good, but once he returns, the reign will continue.

Hilariously, Fury can't box either - he's not allowed.

My dude Tyson Fury was right all along.

boxing > mma

Well....Holly Holm is a former boxer thou yup, an mma fighter could never make it big in boxing though.

Well....Holly Holm is a former boxer thou

So right next door to me is an MMA trainer. He happens to train a ranked MMA fighter in his garage. I don't follow MMA that closely but here and there all the way back to Royce Gracie's first appearance. The guy he trains is ranked and just appeared in UFC 214 (where Jon Jones won and then was caught doping again). Anyways the kid is undefeated and is a rising star. About a month before his bout I ran into them while they where they just had finished training and we started talking. Told them I was more a boxing guy, all three (fighter, trainer and assistant) said they were too. They loved boxing. The fighter than said to my surprise something to the effect that he was doing MMA because he wasn't good enough at boxing. I was a bit stunned for him to say that, but would we be critical of someone who said they weren't a good enough football player so they decided to play football or baseball. Every sport is different. The assistant was the sparring partner. He was a pro boxer who's big achievement at least he mentioned it first was KO'ing Rafael Marquez. So maybe some of these guys aren't good enough to be boxers but some boxers are surely not good enough to be top MMA guys.

well said by the king Fury!

I agree with Tyson. If you're a prize fighter you go where the money is I.e. Connor fighting Floyd.

The great one has spoken.

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WAR BOXING!!!!! :headbang:

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