Randy Couture attempting to lure Hatton into MMA?

[Kev]

It's common knowledge, but taken from the internet.

Have you actually seen the fight? How badly was he knocked out?

As for throwing 7 punches a second like Roy Jones, of course not, no MMA star is as a good a boxer as Roy Jones, but that's only around 25% of their skill set.

It's like saying all the running backs and wide receivers in the NFL are shit because they are so slow compared to Usain Bolt.

Yes but IMO punching is the most lethal weapon a fighter has. It's the omst accurate and by far the fastest striking technique, Yet the two boxers that I mentioned earlier, and have made a good living in MMA, cannot do anything like Jones and are similar in size. Surely they trained their hands when they were strictly boxers?? My answer would be they are not naturally as gifted and fast as Jones, not many, if any are!

I think some boxing fans are not being real when it comes to MMA. I don't know Marcus Davis but an easy look up shows he did better in boxing than MMA. He even described himself as one dimensional and has trouble when he is taken to the ground. Marcus Davis hasn't done anything in MMA. I am from Indianapolis and I do know of Chris Lytle. He was not a boxer. He is a wrestler who later took on boxing and a lot of martial arts also. So Lytle's accomplishments in MMA is not a boxer having success. Lytle was a very good wrestler before he was anything else. Lytle is well rounded and has actual ground skills. He is not a one dimensional boxer who is having his way in MMA. Lytle is a well rounded athlete who is having success in MMA.

It's also worth noting that by far the most succesful crossover was from MMA to boxing with Matt Skelton, leaving K-1 in his early 30's and taking up boxing at 34 and getting all the way to a world title shot against Ruslan Chagaev.

Then you have guys like the Irish cabbie Marty Rogan becoming Commonwealth champ having only started boxing in his mid 30's.

It's ridiculous to suggest that because Anderson Silva lost a boxing fight over 10 years ago that he isn't an elite athlete now.

Skills for skills he is absolutely at the level of a Roy Jones or a Floyd Mayweather, as is Georges St Pieree, Cung Lee and Lyoto Machida.

Sure none of them can throw 7 hooks in a second but all four of them would kill Roy Jones in a real fight.