Well then granted that UF is more like a fight, and boxing is more regulated, you believe an UF would win in a fight?
I dislike MMA, I think it's cowardly fighting. Don't get me wrong, to step in an MMA ring takes alot of bravery but i'm talking about the style. Forget boxing, i've ALWAYS been taught, just as a basic principle, do not kick or punch a man when he is down. I've always been taught locks etc are "dirty fighting". People shouldn't be taught dirty tactics. I wouldn't want to fight an MMA fighter just the same way I wouldn't want to fight a man holding a sledgehammer, it's not clean fighting.
A street fight has no rules so it resembles an MMA match more than a boxing match.
That's what I said earlier, it resembles an MMA match so does that mean to you all that an MMA fighter would win? Like I said in the original post, which sport creates the better fighter (not martial artist or boxer, fighter).
If he doesn't get destroyed in 9 seconds, then it just reflects the bullshit that WWE fake wrestling is. The reason boxing fans aren't buying the tickets is because we like to see boxing, two atheletes pushing themselves to the limits, using skill and science to beat the other. Boxing is real, WWE is just a drama. I don't give a fuck who's the toughest in the O.C so why would I give a fuck who's the toughest the WWE? That being said, I do actually want to see this just out of curiousity as to how they try justify a 150lb against a 7ft 2 400lber. They cannot just flatten him in seconds because A) that'd be a crap main event and B) he is a real boxer who really does beat people, he has pride. Putting him on T.V getting destroyed in a few seconds would just make a mockery of him, so the fight is obviously going to be almost equal until one wins somehow. Mayflower prob will somehow.
It's hard to compare these two different sports. MMA includes boxing in its arsenal. I think a boxer will transition better into mma than a mma fighter to boxing. Those mma guys just swing like crazy instead of boxing and throwing straight punches.
Very true, which is why I think it's such a good topic. It's hard to compare but it's not an unrealistic match up. Someone trained in boxing can fight someone trained in MMA on the streets or wherever.
See but I wouldn't say that makes him better. It means he knows how to do more stuff, how to react to things better but I think a boxer would still be able to go at them better and an MMA fighter would be less capable to defend themselves from a combination of fists, the impacts would bring them down and the boxer can invoke kicking them in if they really want to. MMA fighters often look very 'reactionary', they walk around and then lundge at the other, then the other tries to react. I would expect the boxer to be the first in there. However, a boxer wouldn't exactly be ready for someone to try drag their head to their knee and knee them. It's a tough one but I still think the science of the boxer gives him the edge. It may be centered around fists and defence whilst MMA is more all body, but I think that is all that is suffice, accepting that a boxer, in a street fight, can use their legs too. Just because they're trained to punch well, doesn't mean in a fight they'd only punch.
Tyson's got a lot of "will it happen?" on the shelves. His two biggest are MMA, or maybe Marquess of Queensbury rules under an MMA promoter, with Bob Sapp and a boxing match with Holyfield. Tyson said he is only interested in this so far as there are the right number of seats, meaning so long as he's not fighting in some burnt out gym, he wants the big lights and the big money etc. Tyson is not "chillin' out", he is in training for MMA. He is in serious debt and cannot "chill out" because he has to earn millions and boxing doesn't seem to want him anymore, so he's moved over to MMA. He's supposedly signed a contract with a MMA promoter and is set for his first fight in July (?), rumours are it is with Bob Sapp.
Will it happen? Well, I reckon so long as the fans have the interest then it could. Holyfield wants to, Tyson wants the money, so yeah. Tyson also needs a big fight to go out on I think. Even if he lost. So far his last fight was with McBride, a self confessed "class C heavyweight". Does he really want a loss to him to be his last fight? If he beat Holyfield it would enable him to retire happily, if he lost then atleast he went out with the big lights on him. As for the fight itself, I found them quite lackluster myself, due to Holyfield. "Hit, hit clinch, hit, hit clinch". That is how the coaches told people to beat Tyson, it frustrated him and it tired him. Yeah that's true, and it worked but saying that, in a street fight if I go out with a sledgehammer that's a sure way to win to but it doesn't mean I should do it. After all, a lock is an illegal move. I understand people do it when they're in trouble to stop the opposition and it is allowed because it's not exactly extreme but if you go out with doing it over and over again as you're plan then you should have some points deducted, surely?