By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao thinks that female MMA star Ronda Rousey would defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr if they were to face each other in an MMA type of a fight.
What’s interesting here is that Pacquiao didn’t include himself when talking about Rousey. He just chose to predict a victory for Rousey against Mayweather in an MMA fight, as if Mayweather would ever agree to a fight of that kind.
“I believe so [that Rousey would beat Mayweather]. She’s so strong. She’s strong enough to beat Floyd Mayweather in MMA,” Pacquiao told ESPN’s His and Hers.
That obviously isn’t going to happen. Mayweather would never get involved in a grappling sport like the MMA, and even if he did, he’d never take on a woman. By the same token, you’d likely never see Rousey ever agree to fight in a boxing match against a top male star of the sport. She’d likely be blown out in the first few seconds of the 1st round. It would be too horrible of a mismatch.
Even the top male MMA stars would be completely out of their league if they were to face a quality boxing fighter. It probably wouldn’t even take a boxing champion to make easy work of the No.1 MMA fighter in a boxing match.
They’re two different sports, and you can’t throw an MMA fighter in a boxing ring and expect them to hold their own. They would obviously be wiped out quickly.
Asking a boxer to get involved in an MMA fight is also unfair, because the sport is vastly different. Many of the MMA fighters come from wrestling backgrounds, and they’re good at scoring takedowns to get the fight on the mat.
Once they get a fighter down then they put them in a submission hold, or they neutralize one of their limbs so that they can pound them. But if an MMA fighter and a boxer were to stay on their feet for a fight, it would be very one-sided with the boxer making easy work of the MMA fighter.
It just takes too many years for a person to learn how to box, and you can’t expect an MMA fighter to be able to compete against a boxer. They would be like a fish out of water, unable to compete.
Usually when you have an MMA fighter and a boxer, the boxer is expected to fight at MMA under their rules rather than an MMA fighter looking to try his hand at boxing. We saw James Toney recently get beaten in an MMA fight. But if the same guy that beat Toney at MMA had to put on boxing gloves and battle him, we would have likely seen Toney win an easy fight, even at his advanced age of 45.
I don’t know why it is that people constantly compare MMA fighters to boxers, and wonder how the two of them would do in an MMA fight. It doesn’t make sense. Of course, the MMA guy is going to win. That’s their sport.
They train at wrestling and ju Jitso for years, and they become experts at the submission holds. But if people are going to ask that MMA and boxers fight each other, then they need to flip things around and ask the MMA guy to get in a boxing ring to see how he does when he can’t wrestle or put in submission holds.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be entertaining for the fans, because the MMA guy would be so far out of his class to where it wouldn’t be competitive.
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