How much training would it take for top pro boxers to completely dominate the UFC?

[storeybuckle]

A lot of training. Years of it.

Where you even coming up with these numbers from? Are you just trying to insult MMA fighters? Anyone who says all a boxer needs to do is learn to sprawl and he'll be the champ exposes themselves as someone who doesn't really understand the sport

100% agree!

 

[aus101]

Tonnes, and still many wouldn't be successful. In MMA it's all about how good your grappling is, not striking. You could train for years and Romero will still rag doll you.... Good luck learning enough "Tdd" to stop him (or other elite wrestlers).

 

[Fantomas187]

An elite striker is always going to find some success in the cage, but to be truly elite in all facets, they're going to need at least - IMO - 3-5 years of HARDCORE wrestling, BJJ and Judo. Of the three, having trained all three (at different points in life), I think wrestling is the most taxing on the body while Judo is the hardest to grasp in regard to refining technique. Some of the throws you learn - ESPECIALLY suicide throws - are NOT easy to master.

They don't need to be elite in all aspects. Hunt went from a rather hopeless case in his early UFC fights to a top contender quite quickly. He didn't master wrestling, bjj and judo. In his book he says he just drilled four escapes for the ground over and over again. And takedown defence.

 

[Fantomas187]

Tonnes, and still many wouldn't be successful. In MMA it's all about how good your grappling is, not striking. You could train for years and Romero will still rag doll you.... Good luck learning enough "Tdd" to stop him (or other elite wrestlers).

It's not just how good your grappling is in MMA. Or the best wrestler would always win. Defending takedowns (and learning to defend them) is a lot easier than getting them. And footwork and striking are part of the reason why guys like Aldo, machida, Liddell, etc were/are so hard to get down.

 

[Fantomas187]

Top boxers would be well advised to keep boxing. They might score a few highlight reel KOs in MMA but would rack up a lot of losses to wrestlers. Why leave the top of one sport for the mid tier at best of another sport?

Because it's a hypothetical question we are discussing.

 

[aus101]

It's not just how good your grappling is in MMA. Or the best wrestler would always win. Defending takedowns (and learning to defend them) is a lot easier than getting them. And footwork and striking are part of the reason why guys like Aldo, machida, Liddell, etc were/are so hard to get down.

What? None of them are elite boxers. They wouldn't cut it as elite boxers. They are MMA fighters who use their grappling (bjj base, karate base, wrestling base), to keep it standing. Despite favouring "striking" none of them are actual striking sport level strikers, but all are well rounded MMA fighters (who started as grapplers, machida no but he was grappling very young as well) anyway, and all are renown for having some of the best wrestling/grappling in their divisions.

LOL "it's not all about grappling, you just need some of the p4p best grappling defence in the UFC", good luck attaining aldo level Tdd,
and besides machida is an an example of someone Romero ragdolled! What can boxers learn in a few years that Machida hasn't in a lifetime of MMA training?

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Because it's a hypothetical question we are discussing.

I answered it. Hypothetically, top boxers would have a few highlight reel KOs and then lose a lot to superior wrestlers.