Pettis in Glory.

[saberd]

Kick boxing and MMA is a different sport.. The glove are different, difference between ring and a cage, stance (due to TDs), etc. i honestly think pettis would do well but he wont be one of the best like he is doing in the UFC maybe top 15-20 at best i reckon. And im a pettis fan but lets get real, its a different sport.

 

[Shogun_]

I think he'd be mediocre at best. Even older guys like Kraus and Souwer would run through him in the end, never mind the current top tier guys.

 

[ocfightfan]

There is no way to know for sure. Given that his focus has been MMA and not pure striking I would tend to think he would be middle of the road at best. However keep in mind he's been training striking from a young age and is based out of a camp with a strong kickboxing pedigree so that might not be correct. It's not impossible that, barring injuries, a year of highly focused training in pure striking could make him a top competitor in Glory.

 

[BJJesus]

Kick boxing and MMA is a different sport.. The glove are different, difference between ring and a cage, stance (due to TDs), etc. i honestly think pettis would do well but he wont be one of the best like he is doing in the UFC maybe top 15-20 at best i reckon. And im a pettis fan but lets get real, its a different sport.

nailed it

 

[Goodfella86]

I think he would do very well. I am definitely not a kickboxing elitist, but I am, in fact, an mma elitist. I have so much faith in Anthony's striking. he is the best striker in mma, and it's reasonable to think he would succeed in any striking competition.

 

[Th3Sav4ge]

did you even read the title?

I came into this thread injured

It's called nuthugging.

Definitely not a pettis fan. I dont dislike him, but im still salty he beat gil

 

[Karaev fan]

I'd actually think he could be a contender.

To be frank, this has more to do with how far kickboxing has fallen over the past few years. If you were asking this say +5 years ago in the age of K-1 MAX against Masato, Buakaw, Souwer, Petrosyan, then he would have been murdered.

Currently though, with Petrosyan out over a year with injury and Kyshenko/Groenhart having had their careers derailed because of weight issues, there's just a very limited pool of contenders at 70kg. I could imagine RvR and Kiria being able to consistently beat Pettis, but I doubt the rest has a significant edge on him.

Actually, Pettis might do better than Aldo in kickboxing. The 60-65kg divisions down there is a shark tank with a bunch of killers from Thailand, Japan and the Netherlands.

 

[neckbeard]

He would die

he would do all right. you should maybe explain a litle better why you think he would lose. no one said jose aldo or Urijah Faber. pettis is legit

 

[Sigmafight]

he would do all right. you should maybe explain a litle better why you think he would lose. no one said jose aldo or Urijah Faber. pettis is legit

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This is just not what Pettis does.

MMA is multi faceted, and Pettis gets a large part of his success from being sneaky with getting things in between uncertainties, steps, potential takedowns, clinches, feints, hesitation, and so on.
There is very little uncertainty in kickboxing. There are only a few ways of dismantling your opponent. -And you are standing toe to toe.

Kickboxing is much more vicious, in that there is not as much shifting up and down through gears. Not many breathers, and stalling in general.
For the most part, it's going bell to bell attempting to brutalize your opponent as much as possible.

These guys are ferocious, going hard, and just throw with so much greater force
and bad intentions.
There is no threat of a takedown, so they can really wing them, all of the time, and this is what they are specialists at.

I just don't see Pettis lasting very long in this game, it's just not what he's good at.

Pettis is very sneaky, creative and there is an elegance to what he does.
There is just very little room for him to be him in kickboxing -I think he would simply get his head taken off.