Boxing is a joke, these “boxers” wouldn’t last a minute against an MMA fighter.
Royce Gracie proved that back in the day.
Lots of MMA fighters lose to a strike caused KO and generally they aren’t as skilled at striking as boxers. With their minimal head movement and very different footwork, against a heavy puncher they are going to have to be very lucky not to get knocked out while trying to close. If they manage to close it’s a very different game of course.
Enough of those and the boxer goes down pretty easily, I'd imagine.
Not even to mention the sudden rush and hard take down.
With rules to be followed, most MMA fighters wouldn’t last 3 rounds with a well trained boxer.
as an ex boxer have to respectfully disagree with you. If the boxer gets the first punch in, that’s all she wrote. I’ve even seen it happen with MMA.
So what, neither would a basketball player. They are two separate sports, with different rules so you train and use your body an use weight in much different ways. The best athletes go where the money is so why would an excellent boxer take the time to learn MMA?
If you are trying to make the point that MMA fighters are better overall fighters, like in a street fight, I would dispute that always being the case. In a fight with no rules someone willing to bite and gouge could overcome much of the wrestling or Judo based aspects of MMA and the winners on the average would be the better striker. This is especially true if there are multiple attackers.
To each his own I guess.....
In support of boxing, none of those MMA guys would stand a chance in a ring against a skilled boxer such as Mayweather or the PacMan......
Boxing is an art form while MMA is nothing but grappling, wrestling and punching one in the head while on the floor. There's nothing artistic about that at all.......
I'd rather watch a video of Mohammed Ali against any of his opponents than this crap called MMA.......