Devin Haney: Anderson Silva shouldve been a Boxer

[The XL]

If Anderson left MMA and went into boxing at 40 years old, he could have had a very solid 10 year career. He's that much of a combat genius and a freak talent.

 

[JKS]

If anderson felt he was a good boxer he would had stuck with boxing, early on his career. It's not like it was a big secret back than boxing made more money.

The opportunity was in MMA. He was with Chute Boxe which was a MT and MMA gym, all the guys there did MMA. When Anderson was a young kid he went into BJJ, TWD, and Capoeria, was more into martial arts. When he 16 he joined Chute Boxe and began training as a fighter. It's not about him feeling good as a boxer, he was a martial arts guy from an early age and that was the path to him being a fighter. It wasn't about money.

 

[TheBulge]

MMA is a sports for guys who couldn't crack it in boxing. Basically a D league of combat sports. That's why they let a guy like Dana White, a meathead from Boston, Mayweather spit bucket handler and failed boxing trainer abuse them financially.

Boxing is for limited so called fighters who want to be in a "fight" with gentleman's rules. I only know how to use my fists as a weapon even though my whole body can be used as one. Boxing's about limitations, MMA is about evolution of fighting.

The best comedy in sports was when they called a puncher "the baddest man on the planet" when there's high school wrestler who would grab him and dump his head on the concrete killing him instantly.

 

[Normot]

Anderson... The guy with KOs from every limb along with submission wins in cage fighting should have been a boxer cause he KOd a non boxer in a boxing match?

 

[Mammothman]

I'm so happy he is getting a second wind after his horrible last UFC fights, I hope he keeps beating those big names, get pay and a couple of nice wins, the GOAT deserve it.

 

[Athlas]

Boxing is for limited so called fighters who want to be in a "fight" with gentleman's rules. I only know how to use my fists as a weapon even though my whole body can be used as one. Boxing's about limitations, MMA is about evolution of fighting.

The best comedy in sports was when they called a puncher "the baddest man on the planet" when there's high school wrestler who would grab him and dump his head on the concrete killing him instantly.

If these MMA fighters are so evolved how come they keep losing to a youtuber with 3 fight experience?

 

[TheBulge]

If these MMA fighters are so evolved how come they keep losing to a youtuber with 3 fight experience?

Because they limited themselves to only boxing, which is not fighting. And that is why they lost. Thank you for exactly proving my point.

 

[Kinku]

The opportunity was in MMA. He was with Chute Boxe which was a MT and MMA gym, all the guys there did MMA. When Anderson was a young kid he went into BJJ, TWD, and Capoeria, was more into martial arts. When he 16 he joined Chute Boxe and began training as a fighter. It's not about him feeling good as a boxer, he was a martial arts guy from an early age and that was the path to him being a fighter. It wasn't about money.

I totally understand, just soo many people think why dont pursue a career that will generate you more money.

 

[El Fernas]

And what reason is that?? Why didn't he stick to boxing?

Being bad at it, with a 1-1 record.

 

[Kinku]

If these MMA fighters are so evolved how come they keep losing to a youtuber with 3 fight experience?

Because its boxing not mma, why doesn't boxer come fight in mma rules. Why dont Mayweather fight Conor in the octagon.

 

[wannabetoughguy]

He would've beat Roy Jones years ago.

 

[Athlas]

Because its boxing not mma, why doesn't boxer come fight in mma rules. Why dont Mayweather fight Conor in the octagon.

Because Mayweather is a boss and McGregor is an employee.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

You know Devin Haney respects the hands of Anderson Silva.

 

[Mesos]

Anderson... The guy with KOs from every limb along with submission wins in cage fighting should have been a boxer cause he KOd a non boxer in a boxing match?

Anderson beat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr impressively too. Alot of people werent expecting Anderson to win against a legitimate boxer that was a former champ.

 

[Athlas]

Because they limited themselves to only boxing, which is not fighting. And that is why they lost. Thank you for exactly proving my point.

Common man, stop with the excuses. Isn't boxing part of MMA?
You act like these MMA fighters, whom by the way were not long ago champions were asked to do something that they've never done before.

 

[mjfan23]

Anderson is a legend and one of the most lethal, if not the most lethal MMA striker of all time.

No surprise that GSP avoided that superfight like the plague.

Join date checks out!

GSP actually became MW champ and Silva who had fought at WW before in Japan avoided GSP at WW in his prime.

 

[RampageFaction]

Interesting take, actually agree with him. Anderson probably would have been a great boxer if he just focused on that. Anderson should have retired from mma after Weidman fight and focused on Boxing

Pretty sure the first Weidman loss was the first fight on a 10 fight extension. What would retiring accomplish? He’d be on the same boat as GSP. No way in hell Dana would have let him walk back then, he was too valuable.

 

[moosaev]

Interesting take, actually agree with him. Anderson probably would have been a great boxer if he just focused on that. Anderson should have retired from mma after Weidman fight and focused on Boxing

He was fighting a non Boxer, I fail to see how that’s evidence that he would’ve made a great boxer

 

[JKS]

How about we start with they guy whom this thread is about.

The guy who's the thread is about was already training in martial arts when he was a young kid. That was his passion, he was doing traditional martial arts like TWD, BJJ and as a teen joined a MT gym. That was the road for him being a fighter, not boxing. Chute Boxe was a MT and MMA gym. Anderson never went into boxing because the path for him being a fighter was mma, plain and simple. I don't know were you geniuses come up with the idea that he took 2 boxing bouts and quit cause he couldn't make it in boxing?? Fabio Maldanado went 26-0 before losing as a professional boxer in Brazil but did mma as well. Boxing is not that big in Brazil. He went into MMA because it was better suited for him.

Fighters went into MMA in the 90s and early 2000s because most of them had grappling based backgrounds and there wasn't a professional sport for them to compete it, that is the foundation of mma. Competitors from BJJ, wrestling, Judo, sambo etc went into MMA because their skills transitioned into MMA very well considering it's a mixed fighting sport. You think guys like Randy Couture, Mark Coleman, Fabricio Werdum, Fedor, had aspirations to become boxers lol??? Why do you think a guy like Gable Stevenson who just won gold in wrestling is/was considering MMA and not boxing??

What you don't understand is that mixed fighting was already a sport in Japan, Brazil and Russia in the 90s mixing striking and grappling considering the traditional roots of martial arts on those nations. It wasn't till the mid to late 90s till wrestlers got into MMA from the US when the UFC and Pride came in. This was the road for them to becoming professional fighters, not boxing. And that is how the sport of mma developed.

Get to know your history buddy, you sound like a complete imbecile.

 

[Vil7]

Anderson is a legend and one of the most lethal, if not the most lethal MMA striker of all time.

No surprise that GSP avoided that superfight like the plague.

It's subjective but in my opinion I would say Silva is the most versatile striker in MMA of all time but not the most lethal. I'm not sure who I would pick to put at the top though. I'll concede that Silva is a very decent choice.