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Originally Posted by NOBLE
MMA is more versatile and it also incorporates boxing to an extent. But I would rather be a pro boxer than a pro MMA fighter....even in a street fight. MMA is sort of like being a jack of all trades, where you know a little bit of everything, a little wrestling, a little kickboxing, a little grappling, but you're a master of none. Whereas boxing is like you've mastered one thing but that one thing happens to be the foundation of almost every fighting system. In a street fight against a pro boxer, it wouldn't matter how many grappling techniques you know. You'd be knocked spark out before you even get him to the ground.
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Continuing my arguments from 2014, that's not true. An MMA fighter isn't a jack of all trades. It can be. But isn't by design. Israel Adesanya wasn't a good kickboxer, he was the number 1 kickboxer at his weight in the world. Garry Tonon wasn't a good grappler. He was the best submission fighter in the world. There are Olympian judokas and wrestlers up and down the sport. People master one thing, and then move into mixed martial arts after it all the time.
And in a one on one street fight, 99 out of 100 a proper BJJ or wrestler would very likely wreck a boxer. However street fights are very rarely a one on one square go, so having a killer punch on you is always going to be beneficial. But in that case you've as much chance being a powerlifter for street fighting as you do being a pro boxer.