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Lol, your ignorance holds no boundries.

For the record, an MMA fighter is a far more dangerous proposition to face than a boxer. These guys arent boxers, they are martial artists, and now multi-dimentional. Of course they dont have the striking abilities of boxers, but they can punch, they can kick, they wrestle, they can grapple, they can submit. They can basically kick ass in every area possible.

Go and Youtube Cain Valesquez's recent KO of Nogueria at UFC 110 and tell me that 3 punch combination wasnt beautifully tight, crisp and short. And this is from a guy who excels in wrestling and smashing your face in once he gets you to the ground. It was very impressive indeed.

If you swapped the pay of both sports and mixed martial artists were earning millions of dollars dont you think the likes of floyd mayweather and bernard hopkins wouldnt just jump over to that?

And if they did they would no doubt own every single division and once agan the white frat boys who cant take getting beat f*ck out of would simply devise ANOTHER contact sport that they could get their shoe in.

Tell floyd mayweather that randy couture is a better allround athlete. floyd wouldnt give 2 shits he`d merely compare both mens bank balances and that would be the end of the story. UFC fighters arent idiots, they all know they could potentially make millions in the sport of boxing but the difference being our sport is full to the brim with world quality operators wanting those million dollar paydays while UFC is an expanding franchise full of young untapped talent that simply played the numbers game and realised theyd be better keeping to a safe little payday fighting guys with 21-4 rather than compete in a sport with hundreds of world class athletes.

Randy Couture fights guys with records of 18-4, in boxing that record wouldnt even get you on the card as a filler fight let alone a main eventer!!
Ridiculous my friend

UFC fighters start off with a base fighting style, wrestling, BJJ, Kickboxing, Sambo, Muay Thai etc, very few start off with a boxing background then make the transition to MMA. Simply because they didnt want to do boxing at the very start of their fighting careers. These guys want to be MMA artists because thats what they WANT to be, regardless of the money involved, they do it for the love of the sport.

That is a yes and no reply mate.....Yes they do it for the love of the sport just like Boxers box for the love of the sport....MMA fighters start off young learning as you said wrestling, BJJ, Muai Thai etc....Usually as a hobby when a kid or teen...Same for most boxers they take it up as a kid...fighting amateurs....Then eventually if successful or any good as a amateur they try their hands at the pros...

They seek out their choices for love of the sport be it boxing or MMA but NEVER and I mean NEVER think that any of these guys go into the big time or seek the big time just for love of the sport...They want the money, the fame etc....they just seek it in a sport they love.............

Many MMA fighters have to hold full time jobs to make ends meet and once the realization of not making it to the championship level (That does not mean one shot at a title) or elite level they give up competing except on an occasional basis because it is too hare to hold a job and train correctly...

Many of the fighters go for broke..EG Forrest Griffin gave up a career as a cop to try his hand at mma full time...Through self admission knowing he was risking it all because his chances were slim at making enough money to live off of in MMA..............

NO fighter fights o0n a full time basis on just love of the game

MMA fighters make most of their living off of sponsors even the highest ones....There are no 5 million dollar fights in MMA