Quote Originally Posted by Von Milash
people say boxing and mma are different sports. wrong. they are both subsets of combat sports.

would a boxer win every time? No, but we have yet to see a truly top boxer compete. All we've ever seen are scrubs and has-beens make the transition.

pound for pound, I'll always give the slight edge to the boxer because it starts on the feet with the hands. guys like Chuck and Mirko, who are pretty good "boxers" in their own right, have done well. so what's not to say that a guy like Shannon Briggs, who'd tower over most UFC fighters, couldn't learn a sprawl and do ever better? The bottom line, the guy who makes the other guy fight HIS fight, will win most of the time.

von if a boxer trained to sprawl wouldnt' that make him an mma fighter, and isn't that the point of mma. I think that mma would welcome great boxers and i think they would bring another exciting variable into the mix.

of course u didn't say this von
but i just think its kind of dumb for some people to relate a good double leg,triangle choke or arm bar to pulling hair scratching or biting