Boxing vs. MMA/UFC/K-1?

[Konstantin]

Forget a ruled fight. What about a street fight?

A street fight has no rules so it resembles an MMA match more than a boxing match.

[JayCoe]

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).

[Konstantin]

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).

An MMA fighter is definitely a more complete fighter.

[JayCoe]

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.

[Stormin' Norman]

An MMA fighter is definitely a more complete fighter.

I think you mean, jack of all trades. (In which case, the jack of all trades is great at none of them.)

How someone could respect a sport where you only go a few 5 minute rounds, opposed to 12 3 minute rounds, is beyond me...lol, those guys don't have A THIRD the stamina a professional boxer has.

[PrtyBoyDlicious]

Lets make this argument simple..

Lets put a top rated pure boxer against a top rated muay-thai kickboxer: Muay-Thai wins! How would the boxer defend againts the kicks and knees?