strikings skills, punching skills, fist fighting skills....pick your word to make the distinction you deem important. Making a difference between "Striking" and "boxing" sounds to me like punching without emphasis on footwork, defensive skills and learning to take a punch. I guess you're saying MMA fighters don't need the whole package of fist fighting, because the fighter focuses more on counters using grappling and leg kicks.
Was gonna go to a sports bar with some friends, no thanks to hurricane Harvey. I refuse to pay for a Mayweather fight. All of my go to's are down: firstrow, reddit, and youtube live. screw this.
no, the defense, anticipation, and head movement mayweather has perfected and conor is an amateur in completely dismisses elbows, kicks, knees etc. you have to defense against in mma. literally every aspect of what you mentioned like footwork is different as a result.
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That's what I just said. "because the MMA fighter focuses more on counters using grappling and leg kicks" ... sorry I didn't add elbows and knees. I'm not trying to say Boxers can beat MMA fighters. I'm saying it would be a much more interesting sport if there was no boxing rules at all...and every belt is fought under MMA rules. I'm curious if the fist fighting skill improves drastically in MMA once all the boxers assimilate. Not sure if you are getting defensive or actually believe that MMA fighters could be experts at all aspects of everything. Seems counter to everything I know about any sport than you can't be expert at everything. I don't get this total lack of respect to all aspects of being a "striker" "puncher" "fist fighter" "boxer. For instance, there's a lot of training one can do to learn how to take a punch...i.e., turn a direct hit into a glancing blow with repetiion of seeing punch after punch, anticipation, body and head movement. The footwork thing is just a part of it....which gives you the balance to do all that defense and still strike. And learning to punch with extreme precision and speed. In boxing, you have to avoid getting clipped on the chin from a hook. The whiplash of the precision blow can cause a quick black out, and you are down. It's not an insult to say that MMA fighters can't possibly learn everything and become experts at everything. Just seems to me that their weakest skill as a group, from watching them, is fist fighting. It seems really horrible to me versus their other dominant skills. Their arm speed doesn't seem on the same level either. I don't see them generating much speed/power in a short distance, either. btw: I'm generally curious and don't know the answer to this: How many MMA fighters actually take advantage of kidney punches being legal. I'm sure it happens, but in the top fights often? That's a highly effective KO weapon at close quarters.
we are talking past each other and I'm now not sure what your argument is but I will just respond to this statement. The better mma fighters are not even experts much at one thing like they were in the 90's. Nate Diaz has great BJJ but he beat conor standing up to the point conor basically gave up and went for a take down. I play racquetball, some of those mechanics help in tennis but basically everything I know about hitting a ball with a racquet is wrong for that sport and the opposite of what you want to do. The same is true for this discussion.
It's probably because you're looking for an argument. I'm a firm believer that if we did away with boxing associations altogether, and every belt was fought under MMA rules, the sport of MMA would significantly improve....with the complete assimilation of a world of fighting and its athletes, trainers, skills, talent, etc. But, I'm repeating myself now. I already said that.
