Mike Tyson would have been a boxing and UFC HW champ.... at the same time

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Well this isn't really a question of whether or not it would be financially adventageous to do both.

But the fact remains that the UFC HW champ is considered the baddest man on the planet, not the boxer.

I think Mike's competitive spirit would force him to set up a super fight with the UFC champ to become the true baddest man on the planet.

And Dana White would open his wallet for Tyson. He wouldn't make boxing money but he'd make low 8 figures I'd say.

But my point is, Mike Tyson COULD HAVE been the champ of both if he wanted to. He was a true combat athlete.

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If Tyson wanted to he may have been able to but I think someone would have snapped Tyson's knee.

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Well this isn't really a question of whether or not it would be financially adventageous to do both.

But the fact remains that the UFC HW champ is considered the baddest man on the planet, not the boxer.

I think Mike's competitive spirit would force him to set up a super fight with the UFC champ to become the true baddest man on the planet.

And Dana White would open his wallet for Tyson. He wouldn't make boxing money but he'd make low 8 figures I'd say.

But my point is, Mike Tyson COULD HAVE been the champ of both if he wanted to. He was a true combat athlete.

Hmmm, I dont think so.

I think you may be more aware of mma than I am but even if I asked someone on the street who the biggest and best fighter is on the planet they would have a think and maybe some will say Lennox Lewis but most would probably say Wladimir Klitschko and I doubt any know the name of the current UFC heavy champ. Im not even sure in fact as laughable as it is I know of caine Velasquez and thats nly because Tyson Fury was talking about him but iv got no odea if hes even a champion.

The last time I saw a former heavyweight boxer fight a UFC champ, Mercer knocked Tim Silvia cold

You would never see a UFC fighter come in to boxing and KO the champ or even a top contender. In that respect, top boxers have done better than top mma fighters in the transition because top mma fighters just will not do it because they know they will be vulnerable. Boxers are a bit deluded in to thinking although correctly that they have more skill with their fists but that this will be enough. I am also well aare that people like Botha have taken many losses in mma and bad ones and Al Cole, Mayorga, Phillips etc. Even Butterbean had some good wins in mma when he could no longer box at any kind of level. Its only ever been washed up boxers who have transitioned so really we will never know. If Dana White was to put his hands in his pockets and offer Klitschko £100,000,000 to fight his heavy champ but schedule it a year from now Wlad would have more success than an mma fighter given a year to get ready to box him and I think we can all agree on that.

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I think you may be more aware of mma than I am but even if I asked someone on the street who the biggest and best fighter is on the planet they would have a think and maybe some will say Lennox Lewis but most would probably say Wladimir Klitschko and I doubt any know the name of the current UFC heavy champ.

Might be different in England, maybe MMA doesn't have the fanbase it does overseas.

But for sure the #1 baddest man on the planet is the UFC champion. MMA is a complete fighting sport, boxing is a small percentage of what the body can do.

There's no current boxing champion that wouldn't get murdered by an MMA champ of comparable weight right now.

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I think you may be more aware of mma than I am but even if I asked someone on the street who the biggest and best fighter is on the planet they would have a think and maybe some will say Lennox Lewis but most would probably say Wladimir Klitschko and I doubt any know the name of the current UFC heavy champ.

Might be different in England, maybe MMA doesn't have the fanbase it does overseas.

But for sure the #1 baddest man on the planet is the UFC champion. MMA is a complete fighting sport, boxing is a small percentage of what the body can do.

There's no current boxing champion that wouldn't get murdered by an MMA champ of comparable weight right now.

In mma? Maybe...

The same can 100% be said visa versa.

Give me an example of a top mma fighter who has transitioned and even had moderate success in boxing.

Kickboxers can do it better tyan mma fighters but imagine an mma fighter thrown in a boxing match and how hard you would laugh and cringe at how poor their technique is

Imagine chick liddell in with Kovalev (I Dont know who Liddells contemporary is now).

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In mma? Maybe..

Without question. And in a real fight as well.

Boxing is a very limited art, especially compared with Thai boxing, which uses almost every part of your body to attack.