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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
I'm not an avid watcher of either, but I have noticed something. In a lot or most of what I've seen of MMA, when there's a punching game, it's at least one of the guys, sometimes two wildly throwing punches that aren't straight like a jab or a right and they aren't guarding their face. They are often, usually letting the other guy hit them back in the face/head, betting that they can land more punches until the guy stumbles or gets knocked out.

It seems to me, that letting a pro-boxer pummel your face hoping that in the mean time, you're going to catch him with a good punch to the chin and knock his ass out is asking for trouble. I assume there's a reason that boxers protect themselves from getting hit in the face/head. Also, boxers usually don't throw the crazy swings from way outside where your opponent can see them coming. Also, if a boxer does let you swing at his face like that, he's probably guarding his face/head with his gloves.

Yeah, I don't know near as much about it as some of you or maybe even most of you, but an MMA guy in the ring with a good boxer under boxing rules seems like he's going to get his clock cleaned, especially if they haven't been given the directive of "play with each other, drag it out and make it last a while."
With all due respect, have you ever watched a CM fight?
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All of what I hear being said about Mayweather has to do with his past...not as he is today.
Like I said, if this will be a serious bout I would guess that CM will hold his own.
CM has reach, quickness, timing, precision, and power...and is extremely elusive.
I also think that it's all about money and CM would be willing to lose...for the money.
The real losers with be those who put up $$$ to watch.
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"Timing beats speed, precision beats power." - - Colin McGregor
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PS And CM can take a world class punch!!!
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Again, we can only suspect that some agreement (fix) is at the core of this arrangement.
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