If Tyson Fury does 6 months sprawl training, how easily can he win the UFC HW Title?

rear naked ankle pick said:
He can win it without any training right now since HW champ is a striker
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BalloonFoot said:
Its not like Ngannou uses much kicks, knees, elbows or grappling. Fury has a great chance vs Ngannou in MMA.
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He does actually. He throws a lot of low kicks. In his fight with JDS, both were bragging about their boxing skills and wanting to fight Wilder. When they fought, they spent 4 minutes measuring each other from the outside and trading low kicks without throwing a single punch. Then after the first exchange Ngannou landed and knocked him out. It's a different game.

Ngannou claims he is a boxer but he doesn't even box in his fights, not really. He just trades punches recklessly and wins by knockout before you know it. Pure motherfucking power. MMA is different than boxing. Ngannou has been succesful because he has great takedown defense and has nuclear power in his hands, not because he is a skilled boxer.

Fury beign a great boxer would do shit for MMA. This game is about wrestling. The best strikers in MMA are the ones that can strike while avoiding being taken down, not the actual most technical strikers.
 
Assuming he stops takedown think he can take out everyone except the hw's with good chins and kicks.
 
IngaVovchanchyn said:
Fury can jab your face off from the opposite side of the Octagon. Why would he need to sprawl?

One thing MMA fans need to accept is that no MMA guys would have top level success in boxing, but boxers have top level tools they can use in an MMA fight. You can move from a specialist sport to MMA, whether boxing, jiu jitsu, wrestling. It's been done before. But its a one way street.
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Jab? When have you seen that happened in the octagon? The reason boxers FAIL in MMA and have always failed since the 90's it's because of the clinch. When they clinch in boxing, the referee separates them. In MMA the fight goes on. They are not trained to avoid these clinches or know what to do in them. It changes their whole apporach to a match.

It's a different game, and that is not counting kicks, takedowns and the threat of one that makes strikers lower their hands. There is a reason that you see a lot of wrestlers but not boxers succeeding. This is a grappler's game. It has been from the beginning.

If Fury wants to succeed, he needs to train his ass of in grappling like Adesanya, Ngannou and Petr Yan did for several years. And the money is not worth it, so no point.
 
GueseGuy said:
It’s HW everybody sucks pretty much he would definitely be top 10 within a year of training. Short tubby DC figured it out in 3 years. Look at Greg Hardy dude came from football and he’s competitive imagine what an actual fighter like Fury could do.
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Greg Hardy has been training MMA for 5 years now and he’s still definitely not a championship level fighter. And he started training just 27 years old.
Fury is already 32 and 6 months wouldn’t be enough to transition to championship level in MMA
 
He could bully people if he worked on his underhooks and clinch game.
 
Frsncis might beat Fury, even if Fury had a year of mma training. But he would use wrestling to do it.
 
Fury would KO Ngannou since he doesn't go for takedowns, pretty easily.
 
Lewis is the #1 contender & he's not known for anything other than swangin & bangin & being tough (& yes, entertaining), so the bar isn't too high to be a top ranked HW. Fury could become UFC HW champ if he has excellent TDD, but I don't think he'd keep it for long. Styles make fights, there are plenty of HWs who only have good striking but very little wrestling or BJJ, so I could see a path to a title shot or becoming champ, but eventually he'd face someone who'd put him on his back
 
Boxers would have do deal with kicks, clinching, fighting in a cage, the grappling. It would take some time to learn all those things. Years actually

But we're talking about a division where Derrick lewis is getting a title shot lmfao.
 
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Dont know about Champion but he would be top5 within 6months thats for aure
 
As long as someone like Blades doesn't fight him he runs through everyone. Can he even make 265?
 
FIghtxIQ said:
Yes grappling is different conditioning and he would need to get adjusted to it. It depends on who he's fighting, preferably he would need to be matched up in favorable match ups or fighters that aren't elite level grapplers. Grappling defense and learning how to get up can be learned quickly. It's being offensive with grappling and submissions that takes more time to learn. He's a world class fighter already with athleticism and movement that you don't find in fighters that size and weight. I wouldn't count him out. People think you can't learn anything new when you are older, I don't get the reasoning behind that. Is there a cut off age for learning? I think it's more of an individual thing, maybe some people just don't want to learn or work on anything new as they get older.
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You know what the excuse will be if he does do mma and gets beat up. “He’s out of his prime”.
 
been on Tyson's dick since when his fights were on shiity channel 5...he's nowhere near close to a UFC.
He thrives in boxing, built for it, but in MMA he'd be a chomp and seem almost unathletic.
 
No ammount of sprawl n brawl can save u from getting tkod by a series of unchecked low kicks
 
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