Dana White "Floyd Mayweather is not a superstar"

[OumaFan]

Well Bilbo it was supposed to be just boxing but it wasn't, Sylvia threw a leg kick before, it just wasn't caught on the tape of the KO.

But I still don't get ElTerrible's point though Mercer would be decimated by most good MMA heavyweights but if he gets off that one big punch early in a fight, like he did with Sylvia, he's got a chance because obviously punching is his strong point. But he gets annihalated 99 times out of 100 by Fedor, Lesnar, etc because he can only box.

Of course MMA guys aren't going to be as good in boxing as boxers though. They have to work on a ton of different stuff, not just boxing. The Floyd comparison is poor on a number of points, one obviously Floyd is at a much higher level in his sport than Tim Sylvia was, but also putting an MMA guy in boxing is taking away most of his strong points and making him just focus on one thing which may not be his strong suit, putting a boxing guy in MMA is disadvantageous to him but he's not being forced to throw out a good deal of his skills, he just has to hope the one thing he's worked on his whole career is enough for him.

Basically, put a boxing guy in a MMA fight and he's under prepared but he still has a distinct advantage in one facet of the game, striking, and he has a chance at using that to get a win, an early KO being the easiest way. But an MMA guy has to be a jack of all trades, more or less, so put him in a boxing ring with boxing rules and he has no advantages cause a boxing guy has obviously trained boxing much more than an MMA guy.

Didn't Mercer get beat by Kimbo of all people?