Stipe Miocic is the living proof that a pro boxer with TDD would become UFC champ

[panzer723]

yeah so was ggg. eastern bloc training is no joke.

I guess it's some kind of Judo or Sambo or Wrestling or anything in between.

 

[opie]

I guess it's some kind of Judo or Sambo or Wrestling or anything in between.

probably wrestling. a relic left over from the ussr. their olympic training was serious as fuck. the boxers they put out are still a+, it wouldnt be surprising to hear the wrestling training over there was still going strong.

 

[Fight Professor]

JDS did it first.

"I am just a boxing guy"

 

[Voltron]

Stipe was a regional Golden Gloves champion. Even though this is only a low-level accomplishment, it puts him leagues ahead of most MMA fighters. In fact, he has knocked out pretty much all of his opponents with very basic boxing skills. Naive posters will point out that pro boxers would just get taken down and submitted, but they are missing some important points:

Plenty of boxers have wrestled/grappled before, take Lomachenko for instance, he used to be a grappling prodigy. Pro Boxers are A-level athletes, so it is natural for them to have excelled in other sports as youngsters. The thing is, the money in boxing is just that much better, MMA fighters are paid pennies on the dollar, there is no reason at all for a young A-level athlete go work for Dana.
On top of that, Pro Boxers have incomparable work-ethic, with as little as one year of training they could develop very sound grappling skills. As ESPN acknowledges, boxing is the most demanding sport.

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

JDS did it first you noob

 

[WallyBear]

And yeah, elite boxers are the cream of the crop of all athletes. To be a true elite boxer you have to have everything - speed, power, timing, accuracy, stamina, toughness, work ethic, patience, and courage.

 

[ICEibuPROfen]

Stipe was a regional Golden Gloves champion. Even though this is only a low-level accomplishment, it puts him leagues ahead of most MMA fighters. In fact, he has knocked out pretty much all of his opponents with very basic boxing skills. Naive posters will point out that pro boxers would just get taken down and submitted, but they are missing some important points:

Plenty of boxers have wrestled/grappled before, take Lomachenko for instance, he used to be a grappling prodigy. Pro Boxers are A-level athletes, so it is natural for them to have excelled in other sports as youngsters. The thing is, the money in boxing is just that much better, MMA fighters are paid pennies on the dollar, there is no reason at all for a young A-level athlete go work for Dana.
On top of that, Pro Boxers have incomparable work-ethic, with as little as one year of training they could develop very sound grappling skills. As ESPN acknowledges, boxing is the most demanding sport.

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

To write Stipe off as a simple 'Boxer with TDD' is a disservice to what MMA is. It takes a long time to develop the kind of well-rounded skill he shows in the cage, and even then a lot of people won't pick up on it. It's not as simple as taking any good Boxer, giving him a little 'TDD' as if that's easy against skilled wrestlers, and then throwing him into the UFC.

Even if a Boxer had good TDD, he wouldn't have escaped Overeem's guillotine; that required the kind of effort & practice Stipe has put into Jiujitsu, and a fighter would have to have some aptitude for that as well.

Owned. Boxing is dead.

P.S. Boxers are shit athletes

 

[Hi-Tech]

He never fought after that.

This is how he looks like when he fights:

 

[Hi-Tech]

Owned. Boxing is dead.

vs

 

[DaleBoca]

Ok, seriously, what's behind this new found boxing obsession on Sherdog?

You do know there is a boxing forum on sherdog, right?

 

[ICEibuPROfen]

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What's boxing?

 

[20falarVerdades]

LMAO it is perfectly reasonable for some people in here that a hobbyist weight lifter like Jimi Manuwa can pick up MMA at 26, but an A-level boxer who has spend his life under state-sponsored programs for combat sports would get starched