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

And even with your "less and easier training than boxers," the would STILL rock the S*** out of them.
First don't get me wrong...i love all types of fighting...i trained in taekwondo from age 6 to 18...then starting boxing at 19...so i learn from all types of fighting...but unfortunatley we all die so in a 100years we wont know anyway..so as it is now.. boxing is a much bigger sport and will continue to evolve..MMA will probably get a bigger audience..but if boxing continues to grow how can mma catch up?