Quote Originally Posted by Gyrokai
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.
I agree with you on most of those aspects. I understand that the skill of boxing used in actual boxing is far more than the boxing skill used in Mixed Martial Arts.

I enjoy sport Jiu Jitsu. I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy boxing. I like MMA because it brings all of that to the table.

I understand that when you're limited to using only two parts of your body to damage your opponent, you must develop more technique.  Therefor there is a lot of knowledge.

MMA divides the knowledge of all aspects equally and combines them into one.

I agree, for every retarded MMA fans may seem retarded, and most boxing fans are knowledgeable. Mainly because a lot of people tend to find it boring, and those who do, know nothing about it.

However, I think, the knowledgeable MMA fans all respect boxing, because boxing is just as essential to MMA as all other aspects.

I truely love MMA and Boxing. Despite what some may think, I used to love boxing more than MMA. I love the sport, and I love the history. I'm even making a boxing music video that I tend to post on this forum. I doubt any of you have seen any of my videos before, but I'm pretty much the best who ever lived. I love boxing, but I love MMA equally.