Sylvia never said MMA was better than boxing. In fact, Sylvia thought boxing was the best base and thought his boxing would fare the best in MMA. Sylvia was so delusional about his own boxing that he even thought he was a good boxer by boxing standards. So he agreed to fight Mercer to a stand up match inside of MMA rules. Sylvia was so confident that he agreed with Mercer that they would try to change the rules to just stand up but this was ruled not sanction(able) and so they agreed to just stand up and not change the rules. Sylvia thought he was somehow a great boxer because his MMA boxing was good. I know Miletich's team personally and some of them have trained with us. Miletich and Pulver, both who boxed enough to know, told me before the fight that they all tried to explain to him that he is making a mistake trying to stand with a former world class boxer. Sylvia was never an intelligent fighter and I heard(don't know the guy)one of his teammates say Sylvia doesn't work on his ground game much. I even heard Sylvia say that if he got taken down in an MMA fight he would just get back up. Guys like Sylvia and Tank Abbott were street fighters who kept that mentality. To be clear I think that I have seen enough that, outside of special strikers like Aldo or maybe Pettis, if the fight was stand up a good MMA stand up fighter would be less equipped to win a fight than a good boxer. That Sunday punch is a lot easier to land than to get kicked apart or kicked to sleep.
Last edited by jehoshaphat; 05-02-2014 at 09:19 AM.
Like you said Sylvia was delusional and not the brightest in the same way Toney is.
Believe what you want, just don't bet against an MMA guy in a street fight because once it goes to the ground, where most street fights wind up, MMA prevails unless the size difference is massive.
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