Easier to become a world class boxer or world class MMA fighter?

**Boxin'** · 10-17-2010, 06:00 PM

I think you have to be more athletically gifted to be a world class MMA fighter than a boxer.

But Boxing has more technique involved so it requires more practise, but you dont have to be a freak athlete to succeed. It's more about skill and less about athleticism (compared to mma)

**Check** · 10-17-2010, 06:03 PM

Its obviously boxing and that is why you don't see so many poor records in it. In MMA there is many ways to win a fight and that is why you see a lot of their top guys sporting 5-10 losses. In boxing, there is one way to win a fight really and you do this by hitting a foot X foot area(the head). Outside of robberies, in boxing you know the better boxer is. In MMA with so many ways to win, there is a ton of fluke wins, you don't always know who the better man truly is, just the better man that night.

**Gorilla Dogs** · 10-17-2010, 06:30 PM

More talent pool in Boxing than MMA since its been around WAY longer...

**Russian Crushin** · 10-17-2010, 07:02 PM

Brock Lesnar got a title fight in his 4th fight, even after losing his 2nd fight

Nuff said

**RichCCFC** · 10-17-2010, 07:19 PM

Boxing, by far.

**Forza** · 10-17-2010, 07:19 PM

You only need a grappling background and D level kickboxing to be a world champ in MMA. Boxing actually takes skill. To compare the two is just absurd, MMA is a worthless fad that will be gone in a few years. They can hardly pay their top fighters 10k to win.

**Monte Fisto** · 10-17-2010, 07:33 PM

Originally posted by Gorilla Dogs

More talent pool in Boxing than MMA since its been around WAY longer...

Exactly. But, I also don't think using Brock as a gauge as to how easy it is to climb up the MMA ladder is a good example. Remember, there are no weight limits in HW boxing and MMA. Brock's sheer size and strength advantage alone are more than enough to beat the most highly skilled MMA HW. Now, if Brock was a 170lber he obviously would not be enjoying such a huge size advantage and I think it would be a totally different story.

For now, I would have to say it's more difficult to make it to the elite level of boxing. There are more countries who participate in boxing at the amateur level alone compared to MMA today.

From a stylistic standpoint, I don't necessarily think it's harder to make it to the pinnacle of MMA just because you have more than one style to practice. In fact, many MMA champions of today and yester-years are not really what I would consider well-rounded fighters. Matt Hughes is a good example. Just like how PAC not so long ago lived and died off that left hand.

**'Sugar' Freddi** · 10-18-2010, 04:24 PM

So some of you, not all, are saying that it's easier to make it to the top of boxing, where the likes of Pac and Mayweather are right now, than to make it in MMA, where the likes of GSP and Lesnar are right now? Interesting to see some of you voting and saying boxing.

**Kakutogi-Gumi** · 10-20-2010, 04:57 PM

Originally posted by 'Sugar' Freddi

So some of you, not all, are saying that it's easier to make it to the top of boxing, where the likes of Pac and Mayweather are right now, than to make it in MMA, where the likes of GSP and Lesnar are right now? Interesting to see some of you voting and saying boxing.

Well take into account while it's almost legalized in the US, most of the states haven't regulated MMA as of yet. You could be the best fighter in the state, but it won't mean crap because there isn't a regulatory body to keep guidelines in check, no one will recognize it. You could be 15-0 and all your win could be dumb construction workers who think because they played high school they're tough suma*****es. So you have to go some place that takes regulation seriously in order to get looked at. And even then, you don't rightly know if you got what it takes to go pro.

So in a way, yes, it's easier to become a world class boxer then an MMA fighter

Easier to become a world class boxer or world class MMA fighter?