Yeah, calories burned per hour. Obviously certain types of training such as HIIT burns more calories than boxing but it's not a sport.
Can you please explain more? The way I see it if I'm prancing around boxing doing fark all compared to mma take downs etc I'm sure I'd be burning more calories in ufc?
Well the way you see it, boxing is prancing around doing **** all and by that logic, MMA is flipping tyres and chatting ****. The difference is negligible, under 200 calories per hour in competition. It's all in the legs, I'm not going into the biology of it, but would you burn more calories skipping for 3 minute intervals or rolling around on the floor trying to stop somebody choking you to death? That's as simple as I can put it.
It depends on body composition, obviously some MMA fighters will burn more inside the octagon than some boxers will. It's just a general, across the board assumption that boxers move more. Like I say, the difference is negligible. If you compared a cricketer to an MMA fighter, for example, the difference would be probably 500 calories per hour.
I have boxed but I do judo now, I train with a few MMA guys and the grappling (ground work or newaza) is the most physically demanding part of the fighting.
Boxing seems the obvious one for me. You are constantly bouncing about, on the go, every second of every round. That is unbelievably demanding on your body. You are working your core and all parts of the body with movement, from the movement when throwing different punches, to blocking shots, to moving around the ring.
It is mate, it's backed up with years of research it's not like it's my opinion, I don't even like boxing training so there's no personal bias.
Yeah but in boxing you can smoke a cigar and have a cuppa with the queen.. mma you gotta defend the takedown etc. Boxing is whack.
Yeah but you aren't constantly blocking a take down though, are you. Plenty of MMA fighters prefer to stand and fight.
You do realise, in a boxing ring under Queensbury Rules, somebody like Connor McGregor wouldn't make it past the first round with a top boxing pro? In laymen terms, these MMA fighters are essentially the heptathletes of the fighting world, jack of all trades masters of none in most cases. It doesn't make them the hardest men on the planet because they can use whatever body part they feel necessary to down their opponent.
Aussie would you rather step in the ring with Connor McGregor or Iron Mike Tyson at the top of his game? One of them will knock you to the ground, put you in an arm bar and you'll be in bed by half 10 with a Horlicks and a load of cash, the other will hit you so hard you will feel like you've stepped in front of a high speed train.
Defo McGregor. I'd be terrified that Tyson wouldn't just leave me alone after he's beat me up. ****ing psycho that he is
