Why don't top UFC guys step into the boxing ring?

[Mr. Fantastic]

Wrestling is not MMA though is it.

Go try it in that type of UFC environment and come back and ask me the same question.

[Dynamite Kid]

Go try it in that type of UFC environment and come back and ask me the same question.

I dont need to do that, i know its a different sport(entertainment), that is all i need to know.

[Mr. Fantastic]

I dont need to do that, i know its a different sport(entertainment), that is all i need to know.

Just like Boxing.

Edit: sorry bro...long day.

[xAUGUSTUSx]

Because the majority of those UFC guys would get clowned the **** out. Thats why.

[xAUGUSTUSx]

First and foremost, I'm a fan of both sports. Obviously, Boxing is numero uno, but I still watch and enjoy UFC/MMA on a regular basis. Regarding the Boxing vs MMA argument, you have Joe Rogan, Dana White, and other UFC personalities criticising boxing at every opportunity, declaring that boxing is a dying sport, mixed martial artists are more skillful, and if a boxer stepped into the octagon they would get destroyed. That may well be the case, and I don't give anybody south of Mayweather and Pacquaio a chance in the octogon against a top UFC competitor. However at least boxers are willing to step up to the plate and defend the sport. James Toney is fighting a 'legend' of the UFC in his first ever matchup. No tune ups, no easy ride to the top. He is old school and taking on the best. Now a top boxer is stepping into the realm of UFC, when is a top mixed martial artist going to step in the ring and take on a legend of our sport? If Toney loses against Couture, it's all well and good for Dana White to declare that mixed martial artists are superior to boxers when the boxer is the fish out of water, ignoring the fact that there are no UFC competitors willing to step into the boxing ring to settle the real truth.

How about a boxing match involving the UFC's best and boxing's best?

BJ Penn vs Sergio Martinez
Anderson Silva vs Andre Ward
GSP vs Pacquaio
Lesnar vs Haye

It's time for the UFC's best to step into the boxing ring. Toney and Mercer have done it on the other foot, now its their turn.

Heres my list

Wlad vs Lesnar.
Silva vs Dawson, Pascal, maybe even B-Hop.
Pacquiao vs Penn.
Pierre vs anyone in th super 6.
Fedor vs any top 10 Heavyweight especially a puncher- Tua, Vitali, or Peter
Mayweather vs Jose Aldo or Frankie Edger.
Machida vs Adamek

In the boxing ring.

[Frighteous]

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hum...3281&cat=boxer

[Tampatrader0468]

The only MMA fighters I think could do well are Fedor, GSP, and Silva... thats it in my mind. Mainly Fedor personally... He trains with boxers from time to time. All of them have a snow balls chance in hell against the elite boxers, but it is vice versa for boxers. Wresting is a hard thing to acquire... and this is a guy that has done it for a good majority of his life...

[Left Hook Tua]

Wrestling is not MMA though is it.

mma stands for MIXED martial arts.

wrestling is one of the martial arts people in mma use.


mma is not a fighting style.

mma is a sport that uses a variety of fighting styles.

most popular styles trained by competitors is wrestling , brazilian jiu-jitsu and muay thai.

boxing is also a style mma fighters use but few boxers get in mma because there's more money in boxing.

[RL_GMA]

The management of NBA aren't saying Basketball players are better than soccer players. The same with Rugby and NFL. However, the UFC says it's better than boxing, and the same vice versa. But the only side willing to step up and resolve the matter is boxing.

They mean they're better in the sense of their entertainment value and that they pit the best against the best almost all the time. Obviously if you put the best UFC guy in with the best Boxers the MMA guy is gonna get killed, just as if the roles were reversed and Floyd fought BJ Penn in a MMA match. You never heard Dana White say these Boxers don't know how to fight more than the best fights not happening. That's been his argument from day 1 more than just ****ting on Boxing off GP.

[Left Hook Tua]

The only MMA fighters I think could do well are Fedor, GSP, and Silva... thats it in my mind. Mainly Fedor personally... He trains with boxers from time to time. All of them have a snow balls chance in hell against the elite boxers, but it is vice versa for boxers. Wresting is a hard thing to acquire... and this is a guy that has done it for a good majority of his life...

fedor is good in a lot of different things.

sambo , judo , wrestling.