DiamondGooner wrote:Va-Va-Voom wrote:MMA boxing and boxing are very different.
A lot of the defense in boxing is predicated on the size of the gloves, you lose all of that in MMA.
Covering up, parrying, blocking, a typical guard - all that goes out the window in MMA.
It's so easy for punches that would have been blocked or deflected by boxing gloves to slip through and land in MMA - and you're going to feel a way bigger impact getting hit with 4 oz. gloves compared to the 8, 10 or 12 oz. gloves they use in boxing.
Not to mention the most fundamental aspect of all: your stance.
You can't even dream of using the side on stance used in boxing with your shoulder facing your opponent, it's simply not applicable.
In MMA you would be taken down immediately or have your legs kicked to ribbons.
MMA fighters have to be ready to check kicks and sprawl/stuff takedown attempts at all times.
Also if you watch MMA you know that the jab is insanely under utilized in the sport whereas it's literally the staple technique in boxing.
The same is true of body work, I can count on one hand the number of fighters who consistently employ and have success with going to the body in the UFC.
Exactly.
They're not similar at all, anyone who thinks that simply doesn't understand either sport.
The rules alone in comparison prove how unsimilar they are.
Lots of combat sports if not almost all of them include punches, doesn't mean they're similar to boxing.
Ridiculous assertion.
Why are people always interested in seeing MMA fighters in a boxing ring and vice versa?
You don't get the same buzz for say kickboxing or Karate vs a boxer.
People must at least SEE them as comparable in some way - more so than other sports.
I rarely follow MMA to be fair, but it seems odd that we've had sanctioned fights like Mayweather vs McGregor if the sports are nothing alike.
Didn't Mayweather actually break Marciano's record to go 50-0 by beating McGregor?