Marvin Hagler: "I See No Skill in The UFC"

[badnewsbrown]

Hagler was a great fighter, but he's always been full of himself. Who else would name himself "Marvelous". I'd agree, the boxing skills aren't there, but I have yet to see anyone who master all the phases of a mixed martial arts contest, and some of those guys are pretty damn good.....

lol i gotta agree naming yourself marvelous is quite ridiculous

[fluent2332]

UFC fighters have no where near the punching power or technique that a professional boxer has. UFC fighters lead with their face and if you have guy in boxing you can knock someone clear out with boxing gloves, a snap combo to and open face with UFC gloves is lights out or worse. UFC fighters use no boxing defense and swing wildy...boxers through punches down the middle and wild punches wouldn't touch'em. If you try to shoot a smart boxer uppercut will end your night. BOxers train to hit moving targets and move on their feet...UFC fighters stand flat come straight in face first. UFC fighters have some of the worst boxing skills I have ever seen. It would be a nasty mess when a one-two lands from a pro-boxer with those little gloves. You have to remeber too that UFC guys try to train for every fioghting style around boxers on the other hand train in one art and master it...key word master. Thats why they can hit each otehr 100 times and noone go down. BOxers one-two its over. They master the art of boxing UFC guys are sloppy in everything.

couldn't agree more

UFC is a jack of all trades, master of none

everyone trying to say "oh UFC takes all this skill both sports are great", cut the **** and call it like it really is. UFC fighters are sanctioned street fights that people watch for blood and gore. sure theres some skill involved in the ground game but the level of skill is nowhere near that of boxing. boxing is a sweet science while the UFC ground game is bitter dry humping

people argue "oh but this guy in the UFC is skilled in ju jitsu, tae kwon do, etc". but they master none of them. they have a little taste of each one but their skill level in each discipline is a C-

tito ortiz's skill level would be like a C level fighter in boxing, at best

[Miki Nakayama]

Hagler is an idiot in his statement "I see no skills in the UFC". Oh, so Muay thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Karate, Wreslting and ect... aren't skills? Evidently the avergage MMArtist doesn't have the boxing skills of the average boxer, but it's based solely on 2 facts. For one MMArtists don't have time to work specifically on perfectionning one craft like boxers do because they have too many other aspect of the game to worry about and for 2, a traditional boxing approach won't work in a MMA fight.What most people fail to understand is that Boxing is a martial art and therefore only 1 of the 100 aspects of MMA.

I wish all this MMA/Boxing talk would stop because at the end of the day it's like saying comparing a sprinter to a wide receiver. They both run, but they practice two completely different sports and they each wouldn't perform well in the other guy's sport.

[fluent2332]

Hagler is an idiot in his statement "I see no skills in the UFC". Oh, so Muay thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Karate, Wreslting and ect... aren't skills? Evidently the avergage MMArtist doesn't have the boxing skills of the average boxer, but it's based solely on 2 facts. For one MMArtists don't have time to work specifically on perfectionning one craft like boxers do because they have too many other aspect of the game to worry about and for 2, a traditional boxing approach won't work in a MMA fight.What most people fail to understand is that Boxing is a martial art and therefore only 1 of the 100 aspects of MMA.

I wish all this MMA/Boxing talk would stop because at the end of the day it's like saying comparing a sprinter to a wide receiver. They both run, but they practice two completely different sports and they each wouldn't perform well in the other guy's sport.

so you're saying an MMA guy masters all those disciplines? nope, their sloppy in all of them. jack of all trades, master of none

and its more like comparing a skilled craftsman to a caveman with blunt objects ****ing on a piece of stone

[demirturk]

so you're saying an MMA guy masters all those disciplines? nope, their sloppy in all of them. jack of all trades, master of none

and its more like comparing a skilled craftsman to a caveman with blunt objects ****ing on a piece of stone

all boxers are masters in boxing???

[Miki Nakayama]

I do not like UFC or MMA or whatever those things are called. I find them brutal and a symptom of a degenerate civilization that looks for more and more brutal entertainments - a so-called civilization that accepts state torture. When are they going to bring back the lions and tigers and bear stuff in the Coliseum?

I particularly don't like the kicks to the legs thing. The recipients of that are in for a lifetime of debilitating leg injuries.


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Oh ok, so first and foremost, you're not a fan of KickBoxing or Muay Thai. How can you critisize a sport you know nothing of?

[Miki Nakayama]

Trying to say which one involves more skill is a pointless debate. Most MMA fighters couldn’t win a boxing match, and most boxers couldn’t win a MMA match. They are two different sports, period.

It should have been the end of the thread after this post.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

mma is for ***s


it doesnt recquire n e skill at all and is for lossers

[Miki Nakayama]

so you're saying an MMA guy masters all those disciplines? nope, their sloppy in all of them. jack of all trades, master of none

and its more like comparing a skilled craftsman to a caveman with blunt objects ****ing on a piece of stone

ufc is not a sport...i get sick of people saying that...it is what it is a Fight not a sport...a sport is boxing, wrestling, judo etc...

ufc is like for fun people who wanna see someone get beat the crap outta...you think the people who are watching that care about technique? hell no they only wanna see some blooda nd savagery like a video game...why else do you think none of those ufc fans ever watched boxing because it was too difficult for them to enjoy it because of there ADD.

What's the definition of a sport?

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

mma is for ***s


it doesnt recquire n e skill at all and is for lossers

y'know...I was going to take you seriously, but your spelling brought me back to reality.