Also guys get KO'd easier in MMA because their chins are trash compared to a boxer who has been trained and hit on their chin by harder punchers their entire careers so they can take the punches better.
Yes they are not as good at pure punching as boxers, because a boxer only has to worry about training for punching, whereas an MMA fighter has to worry about training for takedowns, wrestling, grappling, submissions, kicks, elbows etc...
But saying MMA fighters have trash chins is straight BS. They train to and get hit by kicks, elbows and knees to the head. Kicks deliver far more force than punches. There is also zero padding and protection when catching a kick, elbow or knee to the face.
Honestly do the thing you enjoy the most. Try some classes of each and see which one appeals most to you before you commit. They all involve conditioning so you will benefit from that while making your choice.
Rugby is however quite different from the other two. Rugby is a team sport so you may enjoy that element. although MMA/Boxing are not team sports you often train with others and there can be an equally strong sense of camaraderie or bonding with your camp. Rugby never really appealed to me when i was younger. if i was going to be getting ****ed up and getting injured, breaking noses etc.. I at least wanted to learn how to fight in return.
MMA/boxing will be more 'functional' in the real world in this regard. MMA will be significantly more functional in a fight, but you'd win the vast majority of those situations with the most basic beginner level boxing fundamentals. 80%+ of all my street altercations have been with people who cant fight for **** and throw unbalanced windmills. Both are fun and exercise your body and mind. Boxing is the sweet science and has a simplistic and elegant beauty. MMA is the objective science of combat which blends multiple disciplines and refines the end-product to what is the most effective, and has its own complicated chess going on.
Id also disregard what the above poster said about MMA being **** as you're grappling with males. Dont let such thinking cloud your decisions. There's such a thing as context. Technically a boxing match is just two shirtless guys getting all sweaty and out of breath with each other. Technically a gym locker room is just a place where dudes take off their clothes and shower with other dudes. Its context. If its not sexual, its not gay. Even if you are, there's nothing wrong with that. That kind of mentality is the reason why so many men who get prostate cancer don't get it diagnosed and treated until its too late, because its 'gay' to let a qualified and highly educated medical professional stick his gloved up finger up your anus so you don't die a painful and possibly avoidable death from cancer.
In the end i would always recommend going with what you enjoy the most. I spent a good few years alternating between powerlifting, kickboxing, boxing and MMA, and I greatly enjoyed each one. I probably enjoyed boxing the most of all, but that was probably due to the people i trained with rather than the discipline itself. Trying them is the only way you'll know. Its your hobby, and no one on the internet is qualified to tell you what you would enjoy the most.
depends what you mean by "spar". Drills and messing around are fine but i wouldn't feel comfortable properly sparring with anyone that young. For the same reason i've always found it difficult to spar with females or males multiple weight classes below myself.
I would absolutely never spar with anyone who is 8. They should be practising against other kids under the supervision of a qualified instructor. If they were to get hurt in anyway it would get very complicated and ethically questionable.
You are well within reason to tell your instructor that you are not comfortable with it and refuse to partake.
as long as he's carrying that glass chin, he will never have an aura of invincibility.
We all know it, his opponents know it, and deep down inside he knows it too.
There is a great chance that a prime mike tyson on his best day would work his way through the entire list in less than 12 rounds.
He would effortlessly blitz all of these small guys in under 60 seconds, leaving him enough energy to wreck Wilder in a couple of rounds. and then its just smooth sailing from then on.
i would throw in the towel rather than risk ****ting my self on camera infront of millions of spectators. Just take the 0-1 on the chin and go take a dump in the locker room.
Every fighter should take a **** before a fight, its always better to be safe.
probably still ronda, just because mayweather has no takedown defense or ground game.
a couple months of basic MMA classes and ronda would end up taking more of a pounding than yusaf mack
it is more like a celebration that the hype train that has been plaguing us has derailed.
a couple days of constant rousey threads is a small price to pay to cure this infestation.
NO, not even close.
The only people who claim this are UFC nuthuggers, joe rogan and dana white.
even the vast majority of posters on sherdog MMA forums laugh at the comparison
boxers, commentators and analyists are afraid of coming out and accusing fluid mayweather for his blatent PED useage due to legal action. we all remember what happened to mayweather when pacroid got accused.
DLH on a comedown from his recent coke binge,
Hes realising canelo is his only star left, trying to salvage all the promotional bridges hes been burning with his crackpipe