you a bigger variety of things to learn... but everybody is only capable of mastering so much... No one will ever perfect boxing, no one will ever perfect even one of the aspects of MMA... boxers will come a lot closer simply because they are focused on one thing... where as MMA fighters are generally average at a lot of things with one of two aspects they excell at.

Mark my words MMA will never become an Olympic sport... in the Olympics, boxing is more like fencing its so watered down... and a lot of the committee still wants to drop it... they will not take more combat sports on and I doubt MMA would work at the level the Olympic committee would want it diluted too...