Has boxing been de-legitimized as a combat sport in MMA context?

[BrockLesnarsTurtleBack]

Like Taekwondo, Kung Fu or Wing Chun were exposed in the early UFCs,hHas boxing now been finally exposed. There was no sweet science at the top level and it is not a viable martial art for self-defence.

No kids will be training boxing to learn to fight anymore after what Francis did to Fury. Everyone knows boxing has no use in a real fight if the top boxer in the world can't even outbox an MMA fighter.

 

[FeelingFroggy]

I think it was already delegitimized when the Diaz bros kept bragging about how they were tooling up real boxers in training, then would get their asses handed to them in the UFC.

 

[MarleyLynx]

Boxing is what boxing has always been. A martial art that's incomplete and used in very niche situations. It's nice to have in the right spot but due to the rules and regulations is largely inapplicable in full scale combat.

 

[Frank Kain]

Haha, no.

 

[Fight Professor]

How many MMA fighters have lost to Youtubers in boxing? All it proved was that the HW boxing division is stuck in the mud.

 

[Substance Abuse]

To put it kindly, these threads are fucking stupid.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

What? Lol..

What year is this? ..

Boxing is as effective as its always been ..

Better then untrained person..

Worse then a multi styled trained person..

Nothing has changed it was just one cross over fight lol ..

 

[Lucas1980]

No it was just one fight and one guy looked like he didn't even get of the couch to train and took it lightly and one guy trained his butt off.

 

[El Fernas]

This happened in the HW division, the best boxers and MMA guys are more in the 130-170lbs range, not in the 260lbs range... so no, sweet science has been proved before, Floyd was like 10 years older, retired, smaller and still stopped a PRIME Conor Mcgregor who is basically a hand based striker in MMA, this fight proved nothing other than how good of an athlete and fighter Ngannou is, thats all.

 

[Savage]

Of course it's still a combat sport.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Or you could say Francis is the top HW in MMA with boxing as really his only great skill. Works both ways.

 

[NoBiasJustMMA]

How many MMA fighters have lost to Youtubers in boxing? All it proved was that the HW boxing division is stuck in the mud.

There's only been 2 MMA fighters to do boxing that weren't passed their primes.

 

[Egészségére!]

Man you're reading way too much into this one fight

Also,

 

[PaddyO'malley]

I was been #PrettySure that #bluecollarwarrior and #AmericanHero Sean Tarzan was use #WingChun style and #WesternBoxing style in his battles.

Glory be to America's one true champ

#CasualViewer

 

[humdizzle]

yes

bring Fury over to fight jones or even nemkov
bring Canelo over to fight makhachev.
crawford (p4p #1) over to fight volk

they wouldn't last a round.

 

[old school 2]

How many MMA fighters have lost to Youtubers in boxing? All it proved was that the HW boxing division is stuck in the mud.

Yes but not MMA strikers in their prime and correct weight class….ever ! Just over the hill grapplers.

 

[ILove4MinutesHyuna]

Well I can think of one reason for kids to keep boxing and that being that Francis made more in his one boxing fight than from his entire MMA career.

 

[Lee_]

Yes, boxing is delegitimized for sure. It is right there along with chess, curling, and billiards.

 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Boxing and UFC confirmed dying

 

[AngryWeasel]

Like Taekwondo, Kung Fu or Wing Chun were exposed in the early UFCs,hHas boxing now been finally exposed. There was no sweet science at the top level and it is not a viable martial art for self-defence.

No kids will be training boxing to learn to fight anymore after what Francis did to Fury. Everyone knows boxing has no use in a real fight if the top boxer in the world can't even outbox an MMA fighter.

What about KARATE ?