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Originally Posted by Billy Hoyle
I might be on the short side of this discussion here, but it aggravates me when I hear people bashing boxing and saying how MMA is the next great thing in terms of the fistic arts. From what I've observed of MMA, most of these guys are muscle-bound and poorly conditioned. It's nice to see them stand up and swing, but I haven't seen one person in MMA who has the hand and/or defensive skills to last more than a couple of rounds with an elite boxer. And I've never understood the appeal of watching two grown men roll around a ring and grope each other, which it seems is what goes on 75% of the time in an MMA fight.
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Honestly I don't think you know much about MMA. You saying most of these guys are muscle-bound and poorly conditioned is the craziest statement Ive heard on this post yet. What muscle-bound people are you refering to? Brock? Kongo? If you really watched you would see they are not as muscley as you say. GSP, Silva, Griffen, Machida, Rua, Rampage, Liddell, Couture, Penn, Florian etc... are far from that. These fighters compete at standards level with professional athletes (i.e. baseball, basketball, football, etc...) If not more. And also the statement of an MMA fighter lasting a couple rounds with an elite boxer is not well grounded seeing that every single proffesional boxer which includes K-1 has got slaughtered when it comes to fighting an average MMA fighter. We can take one look at the originator of MMA and see why its called the new thing. Bruce Lee is known and still confirmed the best fighter that ever lived. Pride Fighting was an orginization that had many elite boxers enter and come out as losers....As a matter of fact the only elite boxer that ever made it far was Cro-Cop...which he eventually got creamed.
I mean no offence when saying this, this is just my opinion. But I have grown up in the sport and think you are way off when it comes to certain facts brought up.