Originally posted by Dolos
Bitches please.
Kickboxers and boxers have better striking than most MMA fighters, but overall they don't hold a candle to MMA fighters when you're discussing who the better fighters are
The only way fighters from other sports can beat MMA fighters is if you limit what the MMA fighter is allowed to do. Put an MMA fighter in a boxing match with a top ranked boxer, and the boxer will put a clinic on them most of the time, and that's because you're taking away a good bit of the MMA fighters arsenal (kicks, knees, elbows, wrestling, jiu jitsu, submissions, takedowns, and GnP), and you're taking nothing away from the boxer.
Then, see what happens if you put the boxer in the octagon with the MMA fighter (where neither fighter is restricted). It can even be a top ranked boxer like Floyd Mayweather against a mid-level MMA fighter like Clay Guida, and the MMA fighter toys with him until he feels like ending it.
Originally posted by Dolos
UFC version of Iron Mike.
Anderson Silva is equivalent to at least 4 Chad Mendeses.
Dude is nearing 39 years old and is still an animal.
Chad Mendes is a top caliber wrestler, that's why he's so strong starting out. He has that work ethic.
When you wrestle, even more so than MMA with longer rounds and stand-up, it's a constant power struggle on your feet, on the ground. It's not as damaging, but you have to understand these wrestlers are always exerting more power than trading blows and getting away with laying on their backs or temporarily giving up a power struggle when a few clinch strikes will do the job, for 6 minutes.
You're probably going to say MMA is more demanding because you're wrestling and striking, sorry to tell you, you're not wrestling the whole time in MMA and it is more laxed and a longer round.
In aggregate, Team Alpha contains the three most conditioned MMA fighters. It takes longer for them to get winded than everyone else. Say what you will about him being a greenhorn with a brief record, but Chad Mendes will always be the aggressor no matter who he's fighting. #Bulldog.
Iron Mike is built just like the mother****er, a little bigger and more solid, but if he were to learn some wrestling and jiu jitsu, he could have been a champ sup-par to the Spider. And don't give me that bs about woulda coulda shoulda, people speculated on Mike Tyson's potential and they were absolutely right: Because you either have it or you don't.
Originally posted by InsomniatricGoldberg kills him
Anderson Silva is equivalent to at least 4 Chad Mendeses.Dude is nearing 39 years old and is still an animal.