MMA legend giving respect to boxing.

[Mayweather Jr.]

Except all the people who learn how to box so they can be effective strikers. It helps bring money into the sport and helps to keep gyms up and running. There would be far fewer boxing gyms in the world today where it not for MMA.

"If it makes money it makes sense" and MMA does make money for boxing.

funniest thing ive ever heard in my life, you must be a lil kid or something. boxing was makeing ****in millions before UFC was even thought of son.

[shogunn]

This is a boxing forum in a boxing thread, so I'd suspect alot of biasism and hatred for MMA.

But if you think logically, boxing is more of a stripped down form of fighting, when compared to MMA. Not that that its a bad thing, but its more of a sport, whereas MMA is closer to fighting, such as striking, choking, kicking, etc.

[GTTofAK]

funniest thing ive ever heard in my life, you must be a lil kid or something. boxing was makeing ****in millions before UFC was even thought of son.

That is really the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life. Yeah the business of boxing is just money falling from the sky. You live up to your name Mayweather Jr. You have a completely warped perception of the real world and economics. For every trainer and gym making millions off of a marquee fighter there are dozens if not hundreds of gyms that are struggling to survive. MMA brings thousands of dues paying members into boxing gyms every year. That is good for the sport. Were it not for MMA there would be far fewer boxing gyms in the world able to stay afloat and far fewer people would be able to learn the art of boxing.

[Ravishing]

he says he loves it but at the same time he just kept cutting it down.......the guy is reDONKLIOUS stick his punk ass in the ring see how much **** he talk.

Rogan stated several times that he loves Boxing, but the business of Boxing is what's hurting it (which isn't a far stretch IMO).

[Ravishing]

funniest thing ive ever heard in my life, you must be a lil kid or something. boxing was makeing ****in millions before UFC was even thought of son.

I think what he's saying is that a lot of MMA schools have opened and they all have Boxing trainers. Some Boxing gyms now have MMA training in them as well (call it being cost efficient and bringing in more clients maybe?)

[White_Bread]

Rogan stated several times that he loves Boxing, but the business of Boxing is what's hurting it (which isn't a far stretch IMO).

Joe Rogan says "IMA BIG FHAN OF BHOXING!"


But he repreadly says its "Boring" and "One dimensional"



That guy is the biggest hipocrit, I bet he'd one of those UFC fans that only started liking it in 2007 and says "IVE BEEN A FAN SINCE THE 90'S!!!!"

[GTTofAK]

Rogan stated several times that he loves Boxing, but the business of Boxing is what's hurting it (which isn't a far stretch IMO).

No its not money just rains from the sky.

Step 1: Open boxing gym.
Step 2: Make millions of dollars.

[#1Assassin]

I think what he's saying is that a lot of MMA schools have opened and they all have Boxing trainers. Some Boxing gyms now have MMA training in them as well (call it being cost efficient and bringing in more clients maybe?)

dont bother answering to mayweather jr.. he's illiterate and gets everything wrong. eighter hes the single dumbest person on earth, or hes messing with me and im a fool thinking a person could be so ****** without having drowned in the sink already or something.

[paul750]

I think thats the other way around. what do boxers know about submissions? most boxers would get pwned on the ground. take Ray Mercer for example. Mercer got owned by a street fighter in an MMA match in like 20seconds. Where does your theory fit into that equation?

Mercer is a bad example to use, though. He was very old and very set in his ways by the time he tried other things. I'm by no means saying boxers would do well in MMA, as a lot of them would find it tough as well, but I do agree that boxers' would do better in MMA than mixed martial artists would do in boxing. That seems quite rational.

I think some of boxing's big punchers with fast hands could do well providing they made a professional switch to MMA and took it seriously, making the technical changes needed, and giving themselves the time to let in sink in to their way of fighting. Mercer is just a really ****ty example.

[DeepSleep]

First off a MMA guy would not do very well in a boxing match without extensive training and a boxer would not do well in an MMA match without extensive training. Any argument otherwise is short sided. I have boxed for 11 years and can tell you first hand that you can't cross over without learning a lot of new things. The main problem I have with watching most MMA fights is how poor the stand-up game is developed compared to the ground/submission game. Even Rogan himself commented in the last UFC match that the striking in MMA is quite a ways behind Boxing/K-1. For example look at that Machida fellow; he is exposing the stand-up game of a lot of fighters. Eventually it will progress and get better but it's hard to be good at everything especially when you have to worry about guys snapping your arm off...