Quote Originally Posted by Nate17
Thats boxing. Out boxing somebody who knows boxing in a boxing match is the idea. Somebody can't tackle ali to take away his great foot speed.
No thats going away from your original statement man.

Beating someone in your element that has inferior skills isn't impressive or take that much skill.
You're twisting it for the sake of your argument and ignore it in all other aspects.

You know why MMA takes more skill? Because they HAVE to take every angle into consideration. Boxers only have to worry about boxing, while MMA fighters have to worry about dozens of styles. You said it yourself my friend, and in that you PROVE that to be a complete MMA fighter it takes just as much if MORE skill.

You say the only way they can win is to use an unfamiliar style. Homey, there is NO UNFAMILIAR STYLE. MMA is MMA and every camp cross trains!! Thats where you aren't doing your homework on the sport.

Saying MMA is watered down streetfighting is funny, since boxing seems like watered down MMA to me. Or maybe a pillow fight.
Boxing is a single discipline that has many aspects to it. You bringing up the difference between an outside fighter and an inside fighter is stupid because its all boxing. I'm not saying the parts that make up mma don't take skill. I have said that boxing/kick/boxing/jiu jitsu and whatever else are great styles. When you put them all together in the format that is the UFC it takes away from them. Its a watered down street fight with submissions and you can't possible twist it any other way. Most fights end in the first round (how is boxing watered down when you have to go thru wars that used to last an entire hour. Getting beat in 3 minutes definitely takes a lot more courage than in boxing. )

You wanna watch that shit more power to you its your money your wasting but don't come over here and try saying that mma is a superior sport to boxing or any other single disciplined art because its not. Its a pussified street fight. You wanna put a jiu jitsu match on tv... Fine. I probably won't watch but theres people that will. You wanna put some kickboxing matches on tv... Fine. But don't put on pussified street fights that end in a matter of 3 minutes. It was started to see what style would work in a real combat situation they found out what they needed to know and that should've been the end of it. What they're showing now is crap and i'm DONE talking about it. It's a joke and i refuse to talk about it anymore thats it. You wanna watch it watch it but don't try and worship it like its the best thing ever invented because its not and i'm done talking about it. Boxings not going anywhere and soon enough people will realize how shitty your "sport" is and by "sport" i mean mma not the various styles that the people cross train in.