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Originally Posted by driveway
Russ Amber is right, no one else from boxing should try to make this jump. However, a three-fight non-UFC MMA fighter would annihilate Mayweather and Macgregor just went 10 rounds.
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I keep seeing this statement made but honestly it's really not comparable.
Every MMA fighter trains for some type of standup/boxing during their regular fight prep since it is part of their sport.
No boxer trains for the Wresting, Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, etc as part of their regular training since it has nothing to do with their sport.
Best example I saw was would be comparing a track and field star who competes in the Decathlon training to go against Bolt in a 100M race.
You would expect the decathlon athlete to be able to at least come within 1 second of Bolt in the 100M since he trains for it as part of his sports but you would never expect Bolt to be able to go do Long Jump, Shot Put, Discus, Pole Vault, etc since he would have never trained for it as part of his sprint training.
To me that makes sense. Boxing is a discipline within MMA so going from MMA to boxing is feasible since they would probably have some standup training their whole life but Boxing has very little to do with the other disciplines in MMA so you wouldn't expect somebody to be able to transition the other way with 3 months of training.