Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
As a long time detractor and doubter of mma until recent, the tool and art of getting and working a guy off his feet can negate everything. Its not pretty at times but you have five (?) glaring spots to be bent, choked, or whateva else they do and all the time the puncher is only thinking about stumbling to his feet. That said mma is still a babe in the woods and can be equally shit. We've just seen a lifetime of boxing compared. In matches, action and result. Boxing is the adult in the room and frankly I hate kicking.
Yeah and I love both sports and have for a long time, I don't favor one over the other in terms of being a spectator. A great boxing match gets me excited and a great MMA match gets me excited. Both can have boring fights.

I'm speaking specifically on the fighting art. Myself I trained boxing when I was younger and then started training muay thai a few years back, and I can say first hand you don't know pain until you take a hard leg kick from someone.

Boxing is a great art but obviously it's a very limited art, fighting only with the hands. In muay thai you can use your hands, elbows, forearm, knees and feet. And obviously with MMA you can wrestle, you can throw, and you can submit.

I worked as a bouncer when I was younger, I've seen a lot of bar fights and 99% involve grappling at some point. If you're fighting someone who knows judo you're going to get thrown and land on your head.