MMA puts a lot of emphasis on sports and prizefighting. It teaches you how to fight under the rules, win fights and you can earn a lot of money and become very famous. On the other side, martial arts is more about the culture, being in top shape, with the main focus on improving oneself.
MMAchannel.com Staff
Dirty boxing is when a fighter throws short punches from the clinch position while holding the opponent’s back of the head to gain a tactical advantage. It’s called “dirty boxing” to describe a set of unorthodox boxing techniques in combat sports, which can be on the borderline of being illegal.
The term “Sweet Science” is used to describe how technical boxing is, although boxers only use their hands. Boxing teaches how to be in a tactical advantage position and read the opponent’s moves in advance by preparing with counter moves. Boxing is all about the scientific approach to combat.
First of all, one has to realize that judging a fight is much harder than you might think. The scoring system and criteria judges are using are complex and have many flaws which often lead to very controversial outcomes of the fight. In recent years, we are seeing an increase in split or majority decisions. Out of 225 decisions in 2017, we saw 58 split or majority decisions which is a disagreement rate of 26%.
The times in which most of these fighters have fought were much, much different. Back then, they were earning much less money than modern fighters, and they were far less known to the public. To make matters worse, most of these legends have fallen into oblivion. It’s really a shame that millions of new MMA fans who follow MMA don’t know much about them.
In reality, MMA is all about being fast, agile, and having great endurance. And MMA fighting is one of the few sports where big muscles don’t play a vital role and it’s actually counter productive to have big muscles. As such fighters tend to be skinny to be conditioned for fighting than bulky physique.