Quote Originally Posted by Punisher136
A boxer has a better chance of winning an mma match than an mma guy has of beating a boxer.
Correction: this is known as a "puncher's chance", and it's synonymous with "slim chance". All things being equal, and the boxer is strictly a boxer, no. No chance in hell. Now if the said boxer understands sprawling and takedowns that wrestlers, jujitsu and MMA practitioners frequently use, their chances dramatically increase. The operative word being "if".

MMA's evolution was predicated on the stand-up vs. ground fighters. The "who's style's best" argument is a fallacious one. One doesn't win a game of chess by subscribing to the rules of checkers. Boxing is a fighting style, but by no means a be-all-end-all style of the broadly defined "combat sports". The smartest fighters can incorporate several aspects of the fight game, not just one tailor made to avoid offense to a social standard overwrought with rules and regulations so that it be deemed culturally acceptable. I guess that makes me just a "pussified street fight" fan.