Derrick Lewis: mma is easier than boxing

[MadHouse]

I find MMA to be easier than boxing because I can outbox and sprawl a lot of fighters

In boxing, if I fight someone who has better hands then me. I'm fucked lol

this exactly, if you're getting your ass handed to you in the standup in mma you can always use the alternative and take it to the ground but if you are getting outclassed on the feet in boxing there is nothing you can do

 

[Tramero]

It is just 1 of million reasons mma is easier than boxing

 

[MikeMcMann]

its undoubtedly true.

The sport of boxing has become such a science and unnatural way of fighting that you need decades to master it.

Because MMA is closer to natural fighting then anyone with strengths in any base art and good natural athleticism can stand a good chance of transitioning rather quickly.

Anyone who would deny his statement needs to explain Brett Rogers (Cosco Tire Changer) and all the top fighters we have had jump into MMA and reach the top levels within a handful of fights.

 

[qw3rty]

It's easier for him because he only trains the striking aspect of MMA lol

 

[ZuffaExecutive]

Yes and no,in boxing your fucked if someone is a better boxer bar landing a big shot that changes the fight.I dont think lewis has fought a top grappler though,let him fight cain and see if he thinks mma is easier then

 

[BeeCee]

Have trained in both Boxing is certainly harder physically

 

[Brodels]

Unfortunately, I'm now rooting for Browne. Please sub him.

 

[ewww21]

Wrestling will always be harder than boxing.

 

[storeybuckle]

Can't argue with the man's personal opinion

 

[JayE]

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 :

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.

Sorry, what? Fury, for all of his absurd antics, mental health issues, and all around inconsistency outside the ring, is actually a very skilled HW (relative to the landscape of the current HW division, anyway). He soundly outboxed Wlad based on mostly on his superior footwork and ability to manipulate the timing and pace of the fight. Fury doesn't get in dog fights as he's a poor puncher with a chin that is a ways off from granite. He moves and boxes guys from the outside, and he's better at it than any HW out right now. Wlad is actually a fighter who has exploited the fact that referees don't like to enforce the rules on him with regards to the infighting. Fury has rarely had to benefit from this. If Fury actually got in an out and out dogfight with Wlad, he'd have likely been KO'd.

 

[fastone]

That's why he'll never be a champion.

 

[Fullmount Triangle]

you're wrong, guy who competes in MMA and trained in George Foreman's gym and would know better than some shitbird with shitbird opinions

 

[Wariowokecancel]

Anybody who has done any sport knows that level changes are murder for cardio.

Also strange that wrestlers have the best cardio of any dudes in MMA.

Jab a bag 20 times or do 20 Hindu squats. There is a reason many MMA fighters look like death after 3 rounds of five minutes as compared to boxers after their nice little sparring.

That said - boxing at a high level might require a very special type of talent for boxing that if you don't have, you never will have.

 

[JayE]

It is likely a fair bit easier to make it to a high level in MMA because of the smaller talent pool and lack of amateur infrastructure. Now, which sport is actually "easier" to pick up and do has everything to do with the specific aptitudes of the athlete in question (making such broad statements stupid and meaningless in that context, at least in my view).

 

[Fullmount Triangle]

There's like 8 legit heavyweights in mma, of course it's easier for heavyweights

there are 3 in boxing

 

[Glove]

Shannon Briggs doesn't think so...

 

[RichardN7]

Derrick Lewis on UFC Unfiltered podcast says he chose mma over boxing because mma is easier.

He believes the grappling aspect gives "resting" phases not allowed in boxing. So one does not need to train as hard as boxers do.

Do you believe he is on to something?

So what is clinching in boxing then? Jab, jab, clinch... rest... separate, repeat.
Boxing is much easier, speaking out of personal experience here.

 

[JayE]

Anybody who has done any sport knows that level changes are murder for cardio.

Also strange that wrestlers have the best cardio of any dudes in MMA.

Jab a bag 20 times or do 20 Hindu squats. There is a reason many MMA fighters look like death after 3 rounds of five minutes as compared to boxers after their nice little sparring.

That said - boxing at a high level might require a very special type of talent for boxing that if you don't have, you never will have.

That's not really true across the board. Indeed, some of the best credentialed wrestlers in MMA history have actually struggled with their cardio in MMA.

 

[JayE]

there are 3 in boxing

Oh? Who are they?

 

[Mr140]

It is likely a fair bit easier to make it to a high level in MMA because of the smaller talent pool and lack of amateur infrastructure. Now, which sport is actually "easier" to pick up and do has everything to do with the specific aptitudes of the athlete in question (making such broad statements stupid and meaningless in that context, at least in my view).

Pretty much this the reason that it is harder to get to the top in boxing is because the sport is trained as whole and picked up early for most. MMA is not trained as whole really till just recently and even then a lot of younger people are not picking it up as whole. Until there is a amateur program that worth something and it in the Olympics it won't be as refined and have lesser talent pool.