Dana White "Floyd Mayweather is not a superstar"

[Kev]

i'm no Floyd fanboy buton the flipside of what you said, tell me one 50 yr old who's never boxed who can knock Mayweather out cold, the way Mercer did to Sylvia

Same weight or Floyd pushing 100 pounds? I'm really not sure I'm even followed the meaning of your post. Are you comparing Sylvia to the 50 y.o. who has never boxed being beat in MMA by a boxer? Sorry; just missing your point I think.

1st; Tim Sylvia was a joke; the Valuev of MMA but worse. He got his ass kicked out of UFC; and only reason he won in UFC was because he had decent take down defense and weighed around 300 pounds, but still got owned by Couture who is 45 years old and weighed about 70 pounds less and actually outboxed him{which isn't saying much} Tim went to an obscure org. and got pitted against Mercer and Tim Sylvia thought he was a good boxer; a jab and 10ft. reach; lol he thinks that makes him a good boxer He always fought standing up and when he got matched up against Mercer I knew that, unless Mercer was senile, he would knock Sylvia right out and couldn't have been happier when he did. Mercer wouldn't have lasted 2-3 minutes against a submisson specialist.

If Floyd is saying MMA guys aren't on his level boxing wise I wholeheartedly agree; I've already said that. If he's saying that just generally speaking they have no fighting skills at all and he's an all around superior fighter to all of them he's delusional. I would however give Floyd a better shot at transitioning to MMA than an MMA guy going to boxing; because some guys like to "box" in MMA and Floyd would eat them up unless his hand broke and he started sobbing. And very few have even journeyman boxing skills...black, white, yellow, red or anything else.

For me I love boxing 1st....it's more pure, that's the best way I can desribe it.

Sylvia is a joke yet he's a 2 time UFC heavyweight champion what does that say about MMA? my point is, MMA is pretty much overall a weak sport, anybody can beat anybody and there is no real DOMINANT fighter in the sport, aside from maybe Emilianenko (spelling?!?), you said "Tell me Floyd would stand a chance against a guy who outweighs him by almost 100 pounds like Dan Severn outweighed Joyce" so i ask you, name a fighter 50 yrs old who has little to no experience in boxing that can beat Mayweather, just the same way that Mercer KO'd Sylvia brutally, and to the other bolded part of your post, same way Severn and no other MMA fighter would last 12 rounds or even 10 rounds against a world class boxer, they only fight for 15 minutes on a non-title fight for godsake and 25 minutes in a championship fight, guess all that fondeling and dry humping on the floor really tires them out

How has Mercer little to no experience in boxing he was a former heavyweight world champ?

And if you mean as I think you mean that Mercer was entering into an MMA contest so you mean show you a 50 year MMA star with no experience in boxing that could beat Floyd in a boxing fight, then you need to know that the Silvia Mercer fight was not an MMA fight.

It was sanctioned as a boxing fight until the authorities wouldn't allow that so it then became an MMA bout officialy but Slyvia pledged to keep it just to boxing, with only punches, so it was an almost 50 year old former world champ knocking out a 35ish year old with little to no boxing experience, basically the opposite point of what you are arguing.

Also have you ever stopped to consider that the reason its harder to make the transition to world class in boxing is because in boxing every other form of combat is outlawed?

If a world class boxer goes into MMA he is still allowed to box, but if a world class ju jitsu or greco roman wrestler enters boxing all of his skills are effectively outlawed so of course it would be harder.

Brock Lesnar wouldn't make it to heavyweight champ in boxing because his core advantage in MMA, wrestling and that sheer overpowering physicality would be outlawed in boxing. He'd just have to stand up and punch and his lack of experience would see him getting owned.

Put him in a ring with either Klitschko where its anything goes however and my money is on Brock coming out on top. They would have to land one on him quick before he got to them else they are being pounded and brutalised on the ground.

Maybe they would do better than that I don't know, they are very big strong guys themselves after all, my point is though that its much easier to make the transition from boxing to MMA because you have already mastered one aspect of mixed martial arts, i.e use of the fists. For an MMA star however much of what they have learned is usueless to them in boxing because its not allowed.