Do boxers absorb punches better than MMA fighters?

[User9992]

Tyson Fury ate clean punches from one the hardest hitting HW boxers ever Deontay Wilder but kept fighting & getting up

Meanwhile 45 years old Floyd, who isn't even known for having a great KO power, was dropping MMA fighters with every single punch he landed...




Even youtuber Logan Paul lasted whole fight unlike them



Ngannou better not to fight Fury cause that soft chin gonna get rocked bad

 

[User9992]

MMA fighters can't even take youtubers' punches nowadays... Youtuber Jake Paul already slept two former UFC & Bellator champions

Tyron Woodley


Ben Askren

 

[13Seconds]

Generelly. Boxing is a sport of punching after all.

 

[DagOban**]

Boxers are better at handling punches. Their punch absorbing powers would be greatly reduced if they had to worry about kicks, elbows and takedowns.

In the octogon, 45 years old Floy would be finished left and right by mma fighters.

It's all bout context.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Mayweather has the same KO percentage as Manny Pacquiao, a guy people act like has the touch of death.

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

Mayweather hits hard he just became a point fighter later in his career. Also these MMA fighters you're talking about are Nasukawa who he outweight by 30lbs and Asakura who isn't very good.

 

[OldBoy91]

This thread reminds me of the people who used to say stuff like "James Toney only needs one punch to knock Randy out cold."

Do you actually think boxers are just fundamentally built differently from everybody else and were destined to go into the sport or something?

Do you think they naturally hit harder and take punches better on a structural, cellular level?

Or, do you think we should exercise some common sense, and realise that boxers have far better technique that they have been honing for years, decades in most cases. They know how to slip punches and roll with punches to a point where even if they land, they don't take the full impact.

Every punch is different. Some punches Wilder hit Fury with had no effect, others dropped him and one in the first fight knocked him out, and we saw him miraculously rise from the dead.

You think any pro boxer could land a jab on an MMA fighter and they would be out cold?

You're also comparing Wilder vs Fury, where Fury is the much bigger man eating punches from a much lighter guy in Wilder, to Tyron Woodley, who is a 5'9 guy who can cut to 170, eating a clean right hand from 6'2 220 pound Jake Paul. Try to use some basic common sense.

 

[KOPPE]

one leg kick is all it takes

 

[WHITEBELT JESUS]

Think about it.

 

[chinarice]

Boxing is boring as fuck and I say this as someone who was a fan of boxing before I ever watched MMA.

It's boring 99 percent of the time.

Long gone are the days of the RJJs, DLHs, Tysons, Holyfields, etc.

You mean, they know how to defensively avoid getting hit clean. They don't "Take a shot better".. They're just better at not getting hit flush by a punch because they wear pillows and they literally don't have to worry about anything else other than getting punched.

 

[BlackGirlLover]

The mere idea of boxing and its rules naturally filters out people with weak chins

Do boxers punch harder? Of course.
Does this mean they can take heavier punches on average compared to an MMA fighter? No fucking shit

however...

 

[jx820]

Boxing has a natural filter for excellent chins. In MMA a guy with a suspect chin but great takedowns can have a decent career. In boxing guys with no chin can't.

Also in boxing they generally just have one thing to look out for. It does simplify things. Overeem for example was able to handily outstrike Spong, Saki, and Aerts but couldn't handle the striking prowess of Bigfoot in the UFC.

Also boxing gloves deflect and distribute the impact better than mma gloves.

 

[cheesus]

Yes, they are accustomed to getting punched directly in the face far more than MMA fighters, if you don't have a hard chin in boxing, you're not going to make it very far. It's easier to avoid getting punched in the face in MMA than it is boxing.

Those examples you provided don't mean anything though and are pretty stupid, most of the guys representing kickboxing or MMA are fighting larger opposition and all it proves is boxers punch harder, not that they have bad chins. Floyd is fighting a guy who probably has a natural 50 pound weight advantage over him.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

This thread reminds me of the people who used to say stuff like "James Toney only needs one punch to knock Randy out cold."

Do you actually think boxers are just fundamentally built differently from everybody else and were destined to go into the sport or something?

Do you think they naturally hit harder and take punches better on a structural, cellular level?

Or, do you think we should exercise some common sense, and realise that boxers have far better technique that they have been honing for years, decades in most cases. They know how to slip punches and roll with punches to a point where even if they land, they don't take the full impact.

Every punch is different. Some punches Wilder hit Fury with had no effect, others dropped him and one in the first fight knocked him out, and we saw him miraculously rise from the dead.

You think any pro boxer couod land a jab on an MMA fighter and they would be out cold?

You're also comparing Wilder vs Fury, where Fury is the much bigger man eating punches from a much lighter guy in Wilder, to Tyron Woodley, who is a 5'9 guy who can cut to 170, eating a clean right hand from 6'2 220 pound Jake Paul. Try to use some basic common sense.

Yea the lack of common sense on display by T.S and the amount of ignorance Shown is hilarious


Now do boxers know how to deal with punch strikes better then a pure MMA guy maybe yes ... cuz there sport is all punches ...but if Wilder cracks 98% of fighters boxer or MMA hes likely knocking them out ...Fury survived because hes a freak of a man and much bigger...

 

[genecop]

Depends on the fighter..

 

[OldBoy91]

Yea the lack of common sense on display by T.S and the amount of ignorance Shown is hilarious


Now do boxers know how to deal with punch strikes better then a pure MMA guy maybe yes ... cuz there sport is all punches ...but if Wilder cracks 98% of fighters boxer or MMA hes likely knocking them out ...Fury survived because hes a freak of a man and much bigger...

Another thing to note besides the size discrepancies is Fury was between the ages of 30 and 34 in the Wilder fights.

He is in his athletic prime.

Woodley was 40 years old fighting someone almost half his age, had been on a big losing streak in his own sport, and hadn't looked good in years.


It's actually a laughable comparison.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Shitty chins get weeded out more in boxing because of the frequent hard sparring and because you basically cant avoid being punched in the face a lot. But a significant part of it is also just MMA rules leading to people getting flash KTFO out of nowhere due to the smaller gloves (not so much about how hard they hit, more about what it does to your defence), the lack of counts, the fact you're having to try and defend against way more stuff etc.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

Another thing to note besides the size discrepancies is Fury was between the ages of 28 and 31 in the Wilder fights.

He is in his athletic prime.

Woodley was 40 years old fighting someone almost half his age, had been on a big losing streak in his own sport, and hadn't looked good in years.


It's actually a laughable

There's a reason both Jake Paul and Mayweather are fighting who there fighting now and days lol...these arent really meant to be competitive or even skilled based match making ... They're fights with angles in them to make one look better then the other...

I personally thought Woodley would and can beat jake and i think the first fight this happened


But the second fight was literally what happens when out of prime fighters take late notice fights...they get clipped...


Funny indeed

 

[LoneStalker]

Think about it.

Sorry, but this means almost nothing.
Boxing gloves are what they are to protect the hands, not the opponent faces, and the bigger area of contact during a punch means that translates more energy.
And if you think is just a matter of padding, you've never ever been puched with a boxing glove.

 

[OldBoy91]

There's a reason both Jake Paul and Mayweather are fighting who there fighting now and days lol...these arent really meant to be competitive or even skilled based match making ... They're fights with angles in them to make one look better then the other...

I personally thought Woodley would and can beat jake and i think the first fight this happened
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But the second fight was literally what happens when out of prime fighters take late notice fights...they get clipped...


Funny indeed

Woodley is also about as bad a representative of MMA to transition over to boxing, only outdone by Askren (who Paul also fought lol). Even in MMA he throws about 3 strikes a round. When you barely strike and you go into a sport that is all striking, in your 40s, bad things are gonna happen.