Randy Couture attempting to lure Hatton into MMA?

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A nice little boxrec internet warrior rant.

He got tko'd over 10 years ago the same year that Manny Pacquaio was ko'd by Singsurat ( I have boxrec and google too) what relavence does that have to anything now exactly?

I'm guessing he's probably improved a little bit as a fighter between now and then, and his skills extend well beyond just boxing.

If you fight Silva in a boxing ring, you are fighting him minus 80 percent of his skills. It's like an infantryman boasting he took out a fighter jet with a bazooka but then you find out the fighter jet was still on the runway, not quite such an heroic act as you thought........

Actually I didn't look at Boxrec to get that, it's common knowledge.

I don't actually mind MMA but they are not on the same level as top boxers IMO. When you see a 40 year old Roy Jones throw 7 left hooks in one second, then that to me is an awesome athlete who is nowhere near his best anymore but I never see any striking of that quality in MMA.

I think that if MMA gets bigger purses, to match the top boxing matches ($10,000,000+) then they will start getting natural freak athletes like the Roy Jones' and Floyd Mayweather's parents training them from being 2 years old at MMA. Then they will have the likes of these who can do these unthinkable things. As for Anderson Silva, I've seen interviews with him where he talks of how great an athlete Roy Jones is and how he'd love the natural gifts of Jones. He also used to call himself the Roy Jones of MMA.

It's common knowledge, but taken from the internet.

Have you actually seen the fight? How badly was he knocked out?

As for throwing 7 punches a second like Roy Jones, of course not, no MMA star is as a good a boxer as Roy Jones, but that's only around 25% of their skill set.

It's like saying all the running backs and wide receivers in the NFL are shit because they are so slow compared to Usain Bolt.

Yes but IMO punching is the most lethal weapon a fighter has. It's the omst accurate and by far the fastest striking technique, Yet the two boxers that I mentioned earlier, and have made a good living in MMA, cannot do anything like Jones and are similar in size. Surely they trained their hands when they were strictly boxers?? My answer would be they are not naturally as gifted and fast as Jones, not many, if any are!