Derrick Lewis: mma is easier than boxing

No duh. HW division is so shallow that a guy like Derrick Lewis can be relevant
 
Er, no.

In boxing, there's different styles, techniques, and ways of fighting, but it's still boxing. MMA is boxing, wrestling, BJJ, TKD, Muay Thai, various forms of karate, judo, and more. You have fighters from around the world with unique styles and abilities completely different from other opponents you've faced. One fight you could face a wrestle-boxer, the next you could face a Demian Maia-style BJJ fighter, the next you face a kickboxer. You have to train for those styles, learn enough to be able to feel comfortable facing them, and then apply your strengths over theirs to get the win.

I'm not trying to insult boxing here, but MMA is a far more complex sport and as a result it's more difficult. Period. Floyd never had to learn to kick or stuff a TD. That's the kind of thing you learn from the get-go in MMA.
 
Bumblebeef said:
i dont think boxing is harder. its much harder to stay in mma undefeaded and make 50 fights than in boxing.
and the transition from stand up to ground is much harder in fighting and training both aspects than the single dimension of boxing with the big gloves.
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The reason boxing is harder is because of how long it has been around and how young everyone starts. The amount of amateurs fights a boxer will have before going pro is huge a lot of time. Do not see a part time fire fighter winning gold if Hopkins lost to guy with 10 fights like Silva he be laughed out of the build even if he was near 50 years old just not happening.
 
He's right he won't be a boxing main event
 
I have alternately heard of grapplers grappling strikers to tire them out and grapplers taking strikers down to rest.

Maybe some people's body is more suited to aerobic activity, and others more suited to anerobic?
 
Ehh... I'd like to see him use grappling to rest against Cain and see how it goes for him.
 
WinZip said:
Er, no.

In boxing, there's different styles, techniques, and ways of fighting, but it's still boxing. MMA is boxing, wrestling, BJJ, TKD, Muay Thai, various forms of karate, judo, and more. You have fighters from around the world with unique styles and abilities completely different from other opponents you've faced. One fight you could face a wrestle-boxer, the next you could face a Demian Maia-style BJJ fighter, the next you face a kickboxer. You have to train for those styles, learn enough to be able to feel comfortable facing them, and then apply your strengths over theirs to get the win.

I'm not trying to insult boxing here, but MMA is a far more complex sport and as a result it's more difficult. Period. Floyd never had to learn to kick or stuff a TD. That's the kind of thing you learn from the get-go in MMA.
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Yea but if your worse in something you can make it up in another area not to mention not many MMA guys trained it as a sport there whole life. Boxing as a art and sport has been around for over 100 years most fighters train really young and go with big amateur programs before even going pro. Master a craft can be harder the being a jack of all trades and master of none which is MMA.
 
At the end of the day, a boxer would get worked if he fought an mma guy on the street.. so it doesn't really matter what is easier.
 
Maybe because the talent pool is so deep in boxing but other then that the aspects are much more grueling in mma
 
I guess when you are a HW and a lot of your fights end in the First or Second round then yes I can see MMA is easier than boxing.
 
Remember this is from his perspective. So yes he is right because he would never go anywhere in HW boxing, you can't just win fights with wild sloppy overhand rights in boxing like you can do in UFC fights. He would be forced to be much more skilled and accurate with his hands in boxing, its takes a lot of effort and years and years and years to learn to slip punches properly, amongst many other things.

Black Beast Lewis is very slow and sloppy, yet he has the longest win streak in the entire HW division, crazy to think.
 
Organic Damage said:
I have alternately heard of grapplers grappling strikers to tire them out and grapplers taking strikers down to rest.

Maybe some people's body is more suited to aerobic activity, and others more suited to anerobic?
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This
 
Lmao black beast is 1000% right and he's triggering some of you hard lol.

Explain to me why D level athletes can be champions in mma? That shit don't fly in boxing son
 
WinZip said:
Er, no.

In boxing, there's different styles, techniques, and ways of fighting, but it's still boxing. MMA is boxing, wrestling, BJJ, TKD, Muay Thai, various forms of karate, judo, and more. You have fighters from around the world with unique styles and abilities completely different from other opponents you've faced. One fight you could face a wrestle-boxer, the next you could face a Demian Maia-style BJJ fighter, the next you face a kickboxer. You have to train for those styles, learn enough to be able to feel comfortable facing them, and then apply your strengths over theirs to get the win.

I'm not trying to insult boxing here, but MMA is a far more complex sport and as a result it's more difficult. Period. Floyd never had to learn to kick or stuff a TD. That's the kind of thing you learn from the get-go in MMA.
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The fact that there are so many styles in MMA makes it easier to pick a gameplan that can beat your opponent

In boxing, if you are not the better boxer there isn't much around it

MMA is significantly harder to learn though
 
Jkaylor said:
Lmao black beast is 1000% right and he's triggering some of you hard lol.

Explain to me why D level athletes can be champions in mma? That shit don't fly in boxing son
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Set up Jose Aldo vs Floyd Mayweather for MMA and lets see the A class athlete in Floyd outclass the D level athlete in Jose Aldo lol
 
Black Beast is more suited for mma, he is very strong, he is not made to do the hit not get hit game.
 
It is true, that's why boxers like GGG, Canelo and Vasyl Lomachenko could be UFC champs with 1 year of training. The gap in athleticism and talent is just too big
 
boxers clinch to rest all the time, boxers have shorter rounds. I dont agree with his statement. I trained boxing a little so people who write that if your opponent got better hands you always lose... They are : <TrumpWrong1>

The worse your skill is... The fight should be more dirty. More clinching, more pushing the guy, you have to cut distance fast so he cant score points so easy. Somethimes you just have to make it ugly. The master of making dog fights in HW is Tyson Fury, his skills are not rly good if we compare them to Wladimir Klitchko but he won fair and square. He maked him frustrated, clinched a lot wall and stall and box from half distance. In mma having more skills not always is 100% win. Heart, being more active and fighting IQ can really push you very far.
 
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He's right. Have you seen all the fucking bums in mma? Particularly HW mma?
 
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