I think this accomplishment could have gone to Aldo if he had challenged Frankie for the LW title. Too bad they never got around to making that fight while Edgar and Aldo were champions.
I hope that it does. I don't really care for boxing at all. I find it too limited to hold my interest. Boxing still sells, though, and MMA is coming up on a ceiling if they can't get fighter compensation right.
Middleweight and up are struggling to bring in new competitors while the stars of...
It hasn't yet, and I don't think it will in the very near future.
An MMA fighter's boxing has to be different due to the variance in conditions. There are too many avenues of attack in MMA, and that is why a pure boxer will be easily defeated under mixed martial arts rules.
My conclusion...
They are talking shit for a reason. A good one at that. If Floyd wants to step in the cage, his chances should be a subject of ridicule. For as much shit as boxers are talking, no one is under the illusion that the sports are interchangeable.
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