MMA fighters cannot succeed in Boxing

[Steak]

Not trying to start anything or make another useless topic, but this seems to come up once in a while, and I just want to clarify. obvisouly, if you stick a boxer in mma hes not going to do as good either as in boxing(for the most part) but I just want to kind of put to an end stuff like 'How would Kimbo do in boxing?' and all that...

Keith Jardine, top guy at 205 who beat Liddell recently...
"Keith Jardine was sent to the hospital after the fight. Cordova was unhurt. This fight was voted "Robbery of the Year" by New Mexico fight fans, with the resounding belief that "Cordova should have won". against a guy who was 3-0, all those 3 wins coming over guys who had never had a boxing match before...

Roman Zentsov, who has decent wins, including a 1st round KO over Pedro Rizzo...http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...3632&cat=boxer

Mark Hunt, a K-1 Champ who has a win over Mirko Filipovik and is one of the best strikers in boxing...http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...8555&cat=boxer I dont get it either, cause mostly all Hunt does is punch...

Mighty Mo, a big guy in kickboxing(beat Choi and Bojansky) and so far undefeated in mma(but early in his career...)http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...6526&cat=boxer that Lamar Stephans fellow broke Mo's jaw http://youtube.com/watch?v=P9zQOxzty1I

Trey Tellingman, used to be real big in the UFC back in the day...http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...0871&cat=boxer

Patrick Cote, hes pretty big in the UFC right now http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...0979&cat=boxer

Ray Sefo, who doesnt really have a mma career, but is extremely well known in kickboxing http://youtube.com/watch?v=JgLOctdxlsc

and these are just a few examples....Im not really going to bother going out of my way to look this stuff up...but basically, mma guys(for the most part) are going to be able to beat some bums who have ****ty records or have never fought prefessionally before, but they aint gonna get far, even if theyre considered one of the best strikers in mma.
not trying to 'hate on mma' or whatever goofy things some of yall like to say...just trying to answer any questions on how mma guys would actually end up doing in boxing if they participated.

[2501]

if they could, they would be doing it alreadt making double to triple of what they make right now.

[nfc90210]

if they could, they would be doing it alreadt making double to triple of what they make right now.

This point is dumb because it supposes that people such as Matt Lindland, who have been high-level wrestlers, are some how inferior athletes because they enter a sport that better suits their talents and don’t try to be boxers. It assumes the same point of world level BJJ black belts etc.

Roy Jones could have trained his whole life and he would never be the wrestler that Cael Sanderson was. Cael Sanderson could have trained boxing his whole life and he would never have been the boxer that Jones was. Different people have different talents.

[2501]

This point is dumb because it supposes that people such as Matt Lindland, who have been high-level wrestlers, are some how inferior athletes because they enter a sport that better suits their talents and don’t try to be boxers. It assumes the same point of world level BJJ black belts etc.

Roy Jones could have trained his whole life and he would never be the wrestler that Cael Sanderson was. Cael Sanderson could have trained boxing his whole life and he would never have been the boxer that Jones was. Different people have different talents.

your point basically proves what the thread starter is saying and what i said. if MMA fighters could easily succeed in Boxing, we'd be having more crossovers making that boxing money. but we dont.

[2501]

and no where are we saying they are inferior athletes. you may have assumed that because you feel passionate about MMA and feel it gets unjustly criticized.

[nfc90210]

That works on the assumption that pro boxing pays well. On the whole it doesn't. Most fighters don't make Oscar money.

[2501]

That works on the assumption that pro boxing pays well. On the whole it doesn't. Most fighters don't make Oscar money.

so then you are saying the average MMA fighter gets paid more than a Boxer? How bout this, are the 20 most FAMOUS MMA fighters making remotely what the 20 most FAMOUS boxers are now?

[KESSLER]

if they could, they would be doing it alreadt making double to triple of what they make right now.

that's true.

[nfc90210]

That works on the assumption that the crossovers are going to be elite level at both sports. Credible sources confirmed that one-year Tito Ortiz with his PPV cut etc took home nine million dollars from the UFC. That doesn't include sponsorship money etc either.

Most boxers aren't going to make nine million in one year. There is no reason for someone like Tito to try his hand at boxing because..

a) He won't be as good at it.
b) It pays him more to stick to MMA.

[C'MONMANG']

your point basically proves what the thread starter is saying and what i said. if MMA fighters could easily succeed in Boxing, we'd be having more crossovers making that boxing money. but we dont.

there are THOUSANDS of boxers 100's of thousands that arent making that money....