What UFC 205 would look like if it was boxing

[pacmanis1]

A lot of people on here don't watch UFC, but this is a stacked card. I decided to take the rankings of all the UFC fighters and go off the Ring to show what this card would look like in boxing. FYI at WW there is no champ so I made Brook champ and moved everyone down. Also Pacquiao is not currently in the rankings since he was taken off after retiring. I made an additional list if you have him at #1. I made this for another thread but once I realized what this would actually look like I decided to dedicate a thread to it since it's crazy.

UFC 205
FW C McGregor vs Alvarez LW C for LW belt. No CW
WW C Woodley vs Thompson #2 WW
SW C Jędrzejczyk vs Kowalkiewicz #2 SW (womens)
#2 MW Weidman vs Romero #4 MW
#5 WW Gastelum vs Cerrone #6 WW
#1 BW Tate vs Pennington #8 BW (womens)

Boxing Supercard
Gary Russel Jr vs Jorge Linares at LW
Brook vs Khan
Jacobs vs Lemeiux
Garcia vs Spence

Boxing Supercard if Pac is #1 @WW
Gary Russel Jr vs Jorge Linares at LW
Pac vs Thurman
Jacobs vs Lemeiux
Bradley vs Garcia

Yeah boxing is better, but looking at this card you can see why UFC has it's supporters.

[jmrf4435]

lol this is sad. Boxing is now using MMA as a microcosm for fight fan utopia..


COULD YOU IMAGINE IF I TOLD YOU THAT IN 2006???

[Straight Up]

lol this is sad. Boxing is now using MMA as a microcosm for fight fan utopia..


COULD YOU IMAGINE IF I TOLD YOU THAT IN 2006???

hahaha i would have said go ef yourself and go to mmgay. but damn ufc makes the fans happy.

[pacmanis1]

hahaha i would have said go ef yourself and go to mmgay. but damn ufc makes the fans happy.

I saw your thread and saw how stacked 205 was and decided to start com*****g what it would look like in boxing. And then I got sad.

[Straight Up]

I saw your thread and saw how stacked 205 was and decided to start com*****g what it would look like in boxing. And then I got sad.

it's not just 205 that get stacked like that. even other fights that they have, have always got a good match in it.

they just always make the fights we all want to see and even their fighters are up to it. they don't bitch about "waaaaah he too big, waaah he dont do this, waaaah he dont bring enough"

[SCEN3RY]

their weight classes are different though aren't they? Lightweight is 155 and featherweight 145 and so on. So UFC lightweight is boxing welterweight, if you're trying to be specific about it....

russell-linares as the headliner?

[yngwie]

Sadly the mma fighters get really low purses, they can learn some things from boxing as well as boxing can learn some things from mma.

[pacmanis1]

their weight classes are different though aren't they? Lightweight is 155 and featherweight 145 and so on. So UFC lightweight is boxing welterweight, if you're trying to be specific about it....

russell-linares as the headliner?

Very true. If Im' trying to be as specific as possible just based on closest weights...

Pacquiao vs Canelo UCF FW 145 vs UFC LW 155
Degale vs Jack UFC WW 170
Stevenson vs Ward UFC MW 185
Beterbiev vs Chilemba UFC WW 170

[Scipio2009]

A lot of people on here don't watch UFC, but this is a stacked card. I decided to take the rankings of all the UFC fighters and go off the Ring to show what this card would look like in boxing. FYI at WW there is no champ so I made Brook champ and moved everyone down. Also Pacquiao is not currently in the rankings since he was taken off after retiring. I made an additional list if you have him at #1. I made this for another thread but once I realized what this would actually look like I decided to dedicate a thread to it since it's crazy.

UFC 205
FW C McGregor vs Alvarez LW C for LW belt. No CW
WW C Woodley vs Thompson #2 WW
SW C Jędrzejczyk vs Kowalkiewicz #2 SW (womens)
#2 MW Weidman vs Romero #4 MW
#5 WW Gastelum vs Cerrone #6 WW
#1 BW Tate vs Pennington #8 BW (womens)

Boxing Supercard
Gary Russel Jr vs Jorge Linares at LW
Brook vs Khan
Jacobs vs Lemeiux
Garcia vs Spence

Boxing Supercard if Pac is #1 @WW
Gary Russel Jr vs Jorge Linares at LW
Pac vs Thurman
Jacobs vs Lemeiux
Bradley vs Garcia

Yeah boxing is better, but looking at this card you can see why UFC has it's supporters.

The UFC to boxing conversion isn't all that smooth, for the simple fact that weights aren't acknowledged.

Relevant starpower is another conversation, but let's craft the show:

Boxing supercard to pattern UFC 205 (ESPN isn't much better, but they're better than Golden Boy Magazine):
-Alvarez vs Thurman @154lbs
-DeGale vs Jack @168lbs
-Cecila Braekus vs Mia St. John @145lbs
-Cleverly vs Braehmer @175lbs
-Groves vs Abraham @168lbs
-Amanda Serrano vs Heather Hardy 122lbs

A definite good night of fights for boxing fans (though having the main event of the show being a bout where outright size is now an issue may put a damper on things), but not a super duper night of fights, tbf.

[LacedUp]

UFC craps all over boxing right now. That's just the sad truth.

Also, you just posted the main card. The undercard is sick too.