I love both sports but I can totally understand this viewpoint. There is an appeal to the purity and simplicity of boxing, nowhere to hide, no plan B, its basically rock vs rock whereas MMA is rock, paper, scissors. Its a lot more aesthetically pleasing too whereas MMA is quite messy and chaotic.
I think the appeal of MMA though is its the ultimate arena for proving who the best fighters are. Obviously there are still rules but 90+% of the techniques from basically every unarmed martial art are allowed. Its by far the closest combat sport to basically putting two guys in a room unarmed and seeing who would walk out, and that lends a certain weight and legitimacy to it and to the fighters imo.
Definitely a bad idea to grapple in the street if you can avoid it. But in a 1 on 1 situation generally if you have a grappler vs a pure striker the guy that wants to close distance and grab is gonna come out on top.
Obviously MMA fighters are a mix of the two though. I doubt most would bother grappling on the street unless the other person happened to be a boxer.
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