Comments Thread For: Fury Battles With Kickboxers To Prepare For Klitschko

[MarkAdamWakey75]

The only time you'll see a "peter fury" that makes sense is in a p orno--ZING! Sorry. Ok, that aside, Mercer, Kimbo, Toney, all the guys that haven't transitioned over well from boxing to MMA or kickboxing is because you're restricting yourself to half of your body, and that's how the mind thinks when it's kickboxing. You know how to use both, but only because you can use both. I'm not taking anything away from his camp, because obviously he thinks he knows what's good, but when you're in tight on a kickboxer, he wants to resort to using his legs (i mean, seriously), so you're getting to pot shot guys who are normally thinking different because you're painting them into a corner. Whether it's an intimidation factor or not (no Klitschko interviews like this--guy is a robot set on win), you guys may wanna focus more on the training, because you're a +350 underdog and those vegas cats don't like to lose.

Gotta disagree with you mate regarding your comment about the not so smooth transition of Kimbo, Toney and Mercer from boxing to MMA. I think the obvious factor is that Kimbo aside, who had no professional boxing resume whatsoever to make a transition from, Toney and Mercer were both at least a decade past their best before entering the octagon. I can't think of 1 single top flight boxer who has tried to make this transition... And until I witness an elite, still fast of hand and foot, primed boxer compete in MMA, there is no fair basis to make a judgement at all.

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a boxer who trained adequately for kickboxing and got rid of the flaws he developed in boxing (too much weight on the front leg) would be um.... No longer a boxer, but a kickboxer

Sometimes you guys talk like boxer/kickboxer/mma fighter are hardwired genetic makeup