Why boxing is inferior in street fighting

[juggernaut666]

Not saying it is not effective and it is good to watch in mma but in a street fight if people start kicking it is gay.

That doesn't even make sense if it works it works you don't get graded on street fights you walk away while the other guy lays there!....

[juggernaut666]

retired 40-something Ray Mercer KTFO a UFC heavyweight champ in less than a minute inside a cage in an MMA fight. Lets see any UFC fighter get in a ring and today and beat Vitali Klitschko in a boxing match

The dumbest thing about "what wins in a street fight" argument is that to possess any of the superior abilities discussed in these arguments, you've got to be quite proficient in at least one martial art. Which pretty much puts you as more trained in fighting that 98% of the population. So yeah, you better win a damn street fight if you've trained in some discipline for years.

While Mercer got choked out and beat up by Kimbo slice?What you fail to realize is the Sylvia fight wasn't a ufc fight as the fight was sanctioned as a boxing match outside the UFC with MMa gloves and Sylvia is not a great striker,even Couture beat him up at over 40 years old.The only boxers ive seen that would adapt to a ufc style match is Tyson and the klitchkos,they have kick boxing and judo backgrounds.A punch is a punch anyone can get caught,to have a successful MMA career and not just one fight anyway it does take more than boxing that's the sport of MMA,you would have saw that if Fury had got in the cage with Cain.Kicks are harder to land a k.o shot with that's why they are not as seen,a punch is easier to land and execute correctly.

Pacman would do well also.his inside aggressive style could transition.

[sargo]

That's bull****. For every one MMA KO that comes from kicks there will be 5 times that many KOs that come from punches in MMA fights. If a kick was 10 times harder than a punch there would be a death or two every MMA show. If you had said a good kick was 50% harder than a good punch I could accept that. But saying a kick is 10 times harder than a punch means as I said before you are totally full of ****. If you like MMA so much more than boxing then why don't you stay on those boards and quit trashing my favorite fighting art. Sure some washed up champion boxers have lost to MMA guys. So what. They go to a different sport when they can't cut it as a boxer. Any guy who has the skill to be good as a pro boxer or an MMA fighter is going to chose boxing because it pays about 10 times better. Lots of your MMA heros are guys that couldn't make it as a pro boxer.

Yup. Boxing is where the money is.

[Alpha & Omega]

What is inferior in street fighting is always relative to the situation. Which someone who has not been in many street fights probably would not know. I have been in quite a few in my life and using my hands has always served me well, win or lose. The only reason MMA is superior to boxing in a street fight is for one reason only....gravity. The existence of gravity is and will always be the only reason ground fighting can be considered superior. Wrestlers and jiu jitsu practitioners have that inherent advantage in every situation. Except in a boxing ring of course where they would get beaten up. Growing up the only people who tackled people, brought them to the ground or used headlocks were the people getting their asses beat. Those were the only ones. All that **** is, is a way out when your ears boxed off. That is why I have no interest in MMA because of the ground crap, its awful to watch. Muay Thai and Boxing are vastly superior to watch to me. The reason MMA guys use that excuse that MMA is better than boxing in a real fight is because they know they just have to tackle someone. Which takes almost zero skill by the way. I know ZERO wrestling or jiu jitsu and I bet if I ran at someone and tried to tackle them I would succeed 90+% of the time no matter what they know. That is not bragging about me at all, its just gravity/natural science.

[1bad65]

A boxer's fists are legally considered deadly weapons on the street because that's exactly what they are.

Not to get off topic, but at least in the US that is an urban legend.

The reason MMA guys use that excuse that MMA is better than boxing in a real fight is because they know they just have to tackle someone. Which takes almost zero skill by the way. I know ZERO wrestling or jiu jitsu and I bet if I ran at someone and tried to tackle them I would succeed 90+% of the time no matter what they know. That is not bragging about me at all, its just gravity/natural science.

That's about as ignorant as someone saying boxing is just punching and punching takes almost zero skill.

Executing a takedown is not that easy. If you disagree, head over to an MMA gym or a Gracie academy and try a free class. It's not as easy as it looks. The guys who make it look easy on TV have been doing it for years.

[GeneralZod]

Yall got pecs, I got tecs