Quote Originally Posted by Tiger J
Gyrokai: "And you'll never become a good cage fighter until you respect boxing"
I'm saying you don't need to respect it.

JonesJrMayweather:
Take down defense and submissions are a lot harder than 1+2=3. You have to learn boxing, Muay Thai, Kick Boxing, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu. It's doen't limit you to only use two parts of your body.
The best Brazillian Jiu Jitsu artists aka "The Gracies" have been learning it since they were F****** 4 years old.

Boxing is a sport that has been developed throughout the past hundred years.

MMA only started developing in the early 1990's

Matt Hughes wasn't told when he was five years old that he was going to be the greatest UFC welterweight, simply because IT DIDN'T EXIST WHEN HE WAS THAT AGE

However, Roy Jones had been winning tournaments since he was six.

Give MMA one hundred years to develop, and place their fighters againt one of todays boxers.

Thats the only way it can be considered evenly matched.

In other words, its harder to learn boxing because it had a 100 year head start over MMA
Alright, I'm a little tired, but now were getting some where...

I wouldn't compare MMA's training with Boxing. Both have different ways of conditioning and levels of difficulty. Boxing's conditioning is much greater though, on the boxing professional championship level. Ken Shamrock even knows that taking blows and lasting 12 long rounds is crazy. Although, there are some MMA fighters with some EXCELLENT conditioning.

But I'll be bold enough to say that most MMA die hard fans disrespect Boxing. And perhaps most die hard Boxing fans disrespect MMA. Fair enough I suppose. But MMA fans sound so much like retards when they disrespect boxing, only because Boxing has so much history and knowledge that MMA fans will never understand. Ever hear the saying Sugar Ray Robinson forgot more about boxing than most current fighters will ever learn? ...

That is how much knowledge is in boxing. MMA has gotten smart over the years and taken from Boxing's respected Sport Professionalism rules. From rounds, to weight classes, to decision score cards, to the weigh-in hype, to ring card girls, to musical entrances of the fighters.

To hear disrespect from an MMA fight fan or fighter will only keep them ignorant about the world of fighting.
Learn from boxing, don't disrespect it.