Mayorga is going over to MMA?

[Hulk]

Yes and he's fighting in March I believe.

Too bad its against Din Thomas...so Mayorga is most likely gonna get tapped out.

He's my favorite fighter and I wished he would have stayed in BOXING.

[Beanflicker]

He's doing himself a huge disservice by going against Din in his fight pro fight. If he was serious about an MMA career, he should have eased in like guys like Bobby Lashley have. Hes just going to be taken down, submitted, and that will be it.

[HattonTheHammer]

"conquered boxing"

beating vernon forrest and then having your ass handed to you by every decent opponent you ever thought is hardly conquering anything is it.

Mayorga will get a schoolground beating by a mixed martial arts specialist and dana white will claim some kind of bogus moral victory over boxing!!

The exact same thing would happen to couture if he ever dared to step in a boxing ring!!

[J_Undisputed]

Yeah, cuz offering free shots and then getting cut to ribbons by guys wearing 10+ ounce gloves wasn't enough... Wouldn't put it past White as the MMA mouthpiece to approach Thomas with a little financial incentive to finish mayorga as quickly as possible...

[ross]

Mayorga has been training for this since October I think, well thats when it was first mentioned, hopefully hes learnt enough to not lose early, he was also the one who wanted a class opponent!

It will be fun while it lasts, Din Thomas is always going on how he could outbox a boxer and with Ricardos goading, maybe he might try and trade

[Jimmy G-Force]

Yeah, cuz offering free shots and then getting cut to ribbons by guys wearing 10+ ounce gloves wasn't enough... Wouldn't put it past White as the MMA mouthpiece to approach Thomas with a little financial incentive to finish mayorga as quickly as possible...

I dont think that will happen. This MMA fight has nothing to do with the UFC, he is fighting on a 'Shine' MMA card, a lesser organisation. I agree though that Din Thomas is a wrong choice of opponent. Din is very talented, well-rounded and a former UFC veteran. Once the fight hits the floor, that will be all she wrote.

[Puerto Rican Punch]

Don't you think UFC will negotiate with fighters to force the fight standing at least for sometime at the beginning? If there is no KO at that initial minutes, then I guess it will soon finish on the ground. After all UFC fighters can take the chance of having sevearl loses and still be at the top, different from boxing where the 0 losses has a lot of weight. With this I am not saying that Mayorga will win, just that UFC can try to make this fight more entertaining and man, if a negotiation like this happen Mayorga has power.

[Hulk]

Don't you think UFC will negotiate with fighters to force the fight standing at least for sometime at the beginning? If there is no KO at that initial minutes, then I guess it will soon finish on the ground. After all UFC fighters can take the chance of having sevearl loses and still be at the top, different from boxing where the 0 losses has a lot of weight. With this I am not saying that Mayorga will win, just that UFC can try to make this fight more entertaining and man, if a negotiation like this happen Mayorga has power.

He's not fighting in the UFC.

He's fighting for some small upstart company, Shine.

Idk if it will even be televised. Probably will be on PPV or some crap.

[Jimmy G-Force]

Don't you think UFC will negotiate with fighters to force the fight standing at least for sometime at the beginning? If there is no KO at that initial minutes, then I guess it will soon finish on the ground. After all UFC fighters can take the chance of having sevearl loses and still be at the top, different from boxing where the 0 losses has a lot of weight. With this I am not saying that Mayorga will win, just that UFC can try to make this fight more entertaining and man, if a negotiation like this happen Mayorga has power.

This is classed as match-fixing, and a HUGE no-no in MMA. This exact thing happened with the Elite XC MMA promotion and it turned out to be the end of them, and they had Showtime backing them, or at least they did until the allegations came out. Elite's ratings king Kimbo Slice, was due to fight Ken Shamock in their last show. Shamrock pulled out 30 minutes before the fight, so they got a fighter literally out of the audience, Seth Petruzelli. Seth appeared on the Ultimate Fighter and was a well rounded MMA fighter. Seth knocked Kimbo out in 14 seconds. After the event, Seth came out in the press and said that the bosses at Elite XC offered him more money if he kept the fight standing and didnt go to the ground, as Kimbo has no ground game.

After that Showtime pulled the plug and Elite went bust.

Petruzelli creates a big stir after fight - Los Angeles Times