Reasons why Boxing is better than MMA?

[Don Flamenco]

good post, except for the part about where athletes train. that comment is ******ed. sorry to say. i dont mean to be harsh, but, there are a fair number of in shape mma guys and a fair number of out of shape boxers.

i agree with most points though. boxers tend to define their craft to jmore extremes while mma sportists take up several areas and many times are only somewhat good at just one aspect. it takes a lot, i mean a lot of time to be good at multiple arts - which is what ufc and so on are. they are sports combat which uses a multiple fighting art platform, but uses them in a sportive environment.

that is the main reason why i like boxing a bit more - the art is taken more in depth.

oh, btw, other martial arts dont exactly have tattooed white posers in it quite so much as u may think. i cant speak for the bjj/mt or kb - mma crowd though.

This post is from actual experience. At least in CA and NY, the better athletes aren't in the mma/muay thai gyms, they are at Mendez boxing, PAL, or Gleason's. It's just the truth.

Kinda like going to an NFL practice then watching 2 American Heavyweight boxers go at it. Painfully obvious why the American Heavyweight boxing scene is complete crap. The athletes have moved on to a different sport. They are playing middle linebacker for an NFL team.

[dans]

Just wondered what you guys thought....


Thanks!

Boxing is better than MMA for many reasons IMO

1. The ground game in MMA is boring. Most fight start as striking battles but quickly turn into ground struggles that resemble a fight between two friends who had too many shots of whiskey.
2. The striking skill level. While there is a good skill level involved for most MMA athletes. If you watch their striking and other abilities, it comes off as very amatuerish. Even the top MMA stars look like unskilled boxing tomato cans when they throw punches.
3. The MMA Athlete. A good number of MMA guys, if you look at them, resemble tough guys you see at a bar. In boxing, most of the fighters resemble elite athletes.

JMO

[spidershadow]

Okay let me say first that I sparr with mma- & bjj-guys, thaiboxers and boxers. In addition to that I'm also into internal martial arts...I know alot of you might think this is for old farts, but I can tell you the applications of taiji and so on can be realy somthing else.

Sparring in a Gi with Bjj, Sambo, Bujinkan, and Judo practioners can be a bit boring when there is not much going on for a long time because of the holding on to the Gi. In a real- or MMA- fight they would not be able to do a lot of there stuff because of punches and so on. The croud is more divers with a lot of students, white- collar-job guys etc.

No Gi Sparring with MMA- & JKD- guys and wrestlers is more fun because it's more dynamic. There you have more bouncers, bodyguards and so on. It's true that a lot of young guys atrected to the sport are bodybuilding posers. Most of them don't stay for long. Or if they do, they try to skip learning good techniques by buying more strenght, what just makes them more clumbsy. But No- Gi grappling with real good guys can be like flowting. Considering Strikes? Well, with mma-gloves you just can't work as if you had boxing gloves on. And when you look at Fedor...He is just precise from all angles. Hands down!

Muay Thai is fun and Muay Boran is very intresting. But it's true most of the guys can't punch. The reson is simple they don't have a good stance, because they have to watch out for the kicks. If your front leg is to flat on the floor you eat hard lowkicks and that ain't fun. The croud is tough! Ther are thugs, pimps, bouncers, policeman, military etc.

What is my opinion on boxing? It's just a sweat science! The boxing workout is one of the best ( with wrestling in my opinion)! Before I started boxing with some good former amateurs and boxers from the national team, I would not have thought that it's so deep and divers. With some modifications it can be a very nice self defence art. I must admit, I'm not one of the guys who likes to fight on the ground in the street. But I think you should be a round fighter and know the game.

MMA and Boxing come from the same root Pankration. All of you boxing historiens also know that before James J. Corbett boxing wasn't to scientific and before the first rules were maid it was more like brawling or unscientific mma.

Coming back to the internal arts...well I know a group which also fights on the hard floor (no matts). They are very scientific, too! It's just like nothing I have seen before. Some of them look like whimps, but it's a bad mistake to underestimate them as fighters. The traping range is their game and you feel so helpless. The badest thing about it is they even don't use force.

There where I'm from most of the high level martial artists know each other.

One love, brothers!