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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Browne
It looks like he started in MMA, but then DC beat him up so bad he went to boxing.
“It was quite a humbling experience being schooled by a wrestler like that,” Browne said.
“He split me across the eyebrow with an elbow and I needed 13 stitches. Obviously, they called the fight off.“I’d done cage fighting for two years. I trained for three months and had my first MMA fight. Two weeks after that I had a kickboxing fight.
“The weekend after that I had a boxing fight. After the Cormier cage fight, I decided boxing was the way to go.”
Basically this guy started training boxing when he was 30 and managed to snatch a paper title 6 years later. He obviously would have nothing against top dogs at HW like Klitschko, Fury, Povetkin, Joshua, Wilder, Ortiz, Pulev etc. but in boxing it's easier to get some paper belt if you have good management and he's ranked top 10 in the division. Obviously having a paper belt and getting some easy defenses is way more financially attractive than fighting in the UFC, I bet this Browne guy earns much more than average UFC fighter.
Now the only division where MMA fighters could have any success is HW, divisions around 147 are stacked with talent, MMA guys would get absolutely murdered there, most of those guys grew up in boxing gyms like Floyd. 175 and 200 are also full of talented fighters right now, on the other hand HW has some great elite talents but the rest of the division seems more shallow. There are many belts in boxing, especially WBA likes to create several meaningless title inside one division
I remember Arlovski saying that he wanted to go to boxing and he was with De La Hoya at the time, that was before Fedor took his soul. De La Hoya would carefully match him up and build him up slowly then try to get him some big money fight. With the UFC paying shit, do you think any of the HWs could have a go at boxing?
It looks like he started in MMA, but then DC beat him up so bad he went to boxing.
“It was quite a humbling experience being schooled by a wrestler like that,” Browne said.
“He split me across the eyebrow with an elbow and I needed 13 stitches. Obviously, they called the fight off.“I’d done cage fighting for two years. I trained for three months and had my first MMA fight. Two weeks after that I had a kickboxing fight.
“The weekend after that I had a boxing fight. After the Cormier cage fight, I decided boxing was the way to go.”
Basically this guy started training boxing when he was 30 and managed to snatch a paper title 6 years later. He obviously would have nothing against top dogs at HW like Klitschko, Fury, Povetkin, Joshua, Wilder, Ortiz, Pulev etc. but in boxing it's easier to get some paper belt if you have good management and he's ranked top 10 in the division. Obviously having a paper belt and getting some easy defenses is way more financially attractive than fighting in the UFC, I bet this Browne guy earns much more than average UFC fighter.
Now the only division where MMA fighters could have any success is HW, divisions around 147 are stacked with talent, MMA guys would get absolutely murdered there, most of those guys grew up in boxing gyms like Floyd. 175 and 200 are also full of talented fighters right now, on the other hand HW has some great elite talents but the rest of the division seems more shallow. There are many belts in boxing, especially WBA likes to create several meaningless title inside one division
I remember Arlovski saying that he wanted to go to boxing and he was with De La Hoya at the time, that was before Fedor took his soul. De La Hoya would carefully match him up and build him up slowly then try to get him some big money fight. With the UFC paying shit, do you think any of the HWs could have a go at boxing?
