With an MMA workout, you learn to box, utilize submissions in BJJ, and grappling techniques for achieving takedowns. With MMA training, you will feel confident in your ability to fight, as each and every technique you have learned has been tested inside an MMA cage.
Boxing works in a street fight, but it is not ideal. In street fighting, the best tactic is usually to grab the other person and throw them onto the ground so one can either flee or attack from a higher position. But boxers do not grapple, and boxing is done standing up, so their tactics transfer poorly.
As a trained fighter, you will focus on using the techniques you learn during your training, rather than expecting that somebody might punch you in the groin or stick their fingers into your eyes. Perhaps the best benefit to learning to box for fighting, however, is being able to avoid getting punched.
Boxing is adept at dealing with that street fighting situation, as an adept boxer is able to stay just outside striking distance, preventing their attacker from hitting them. Boxing can quickly finish the fight — a skilled boxer can literally land 2 punches and take down 2 attackers. A boxer can transition easily from a neutral stance to a fight position before an attacker even knows what is happening.
Skilled Boxes May Excel at Street Fighting
Boxers can also take on multiple attackers effectively, something that cannot be done in other martial arts, and striking is how 99 percent of street fights are initiated. A boxer is also capable of throwing strikes with control and no rage, meaning they more than often will throw the first strike, and landing the first strike is very often what wins the street fight. A top-level boxer will have a greater punching power with his hands compared to somebody trained in MMA or kickboxing, and with a single great punch, can finish a street fight before it starts.
A trained boxer will have an excellent edge in any type of fight, but in street fighting, traditional boxing styles are not that practical because there is no defense, and with no gloves, anybody could land a knockout blow.
Overall, boxing is extremely effective in street fighting, and it is probably one of the best martial arts that can be learned to fight. Compared to some of the other martial arts, pure boxing offers better techniques when it comes to combat. Boxers combine skills for defense and offense with effective footwork and control of distance, which is what makes boxing effective for fighting on the streets.
Boxers Must Stand on Their Feet
Boxers are adept at fighting from any distance when they are standing, regardless of the venue of a fight. Boxers who fight at shorter distances can be less effective in street fighting, as their opponents may be able to wrap them up in arms and bring them to the ground. The advantage that street fighters will have over a boxer is if a boxer strikes or fail to finish a stand-up and the fight goes down to the floor, those boxing techniques are much less helpful when grappling for a fight.
By using the footwork of a boxer, keeping your distance, and throwing your punches squarely, you may force your attacker to rethink his or her choice to attempt an attack on you. In short, if you are being attacked by multiple people at the same time, if your boxing is good enough, you could probably still win the fight. If fast enough, you could still throw some fast combinations and punches on the opponents, essentially winning the fight.
If you are having a low-level brawl, you could finish them off fast with some deadly strikes that you picked up in your boxing days. While getting into a fight against an armed opponent is never a great idea, boxing is also one of the best arts for standing up to somebody who has a gun.
Boxing Is Valid for Self-Defense
Boxing is great for self-defense, but boxing only trains you in the ways to use only your hands in order to fight while standing. It is one of the best forms of fighting in self-defense as the workouts involve lots of sparring, and the techniques are effective in real-life situations.
Boxing is far more effective in fighting against a grappler, or anyone who has a good ground game that is trying to take you down, because boxers take a more free-flowing position compared to Muay Thai fighters, making it harder for them to take you down. Boxing is one of the most effective forms of fighting for a roadfight as you not only get the knockout punch in a single punch, but you also get the end of the fight quickly and out of harm’s way.
Most fights begin in the standing position, so it is essential that you learn to defend properly using techniques from the two most effective striking arts; Boxing and Muay Thai. Other combat sports such as boxing only teach you to fight from one aspect, standing up or fighting from the ground, and not from both aspects. Street fighting is a long way off from being an art since they will go all out to win the fight, making them highly unpredictable, unlike boxers who are more one-dimensional fighters who only depend on their striking.
Bouncers Should Have Some Boxing Skills
If you are working as a bouncer and you feel you have to protect yourself at all times, and you have already got boxing skills, then you could always pick up another ground game such as jiu-jitsu or grappling, and that would give you full confidence that even if a fight does come down to the ground, you could at least defend, and possibly even land a few submissions.
This means training in a boxing discipline will give you the opportunity to have patterns in the strikes flying toward you, meaning that you do not really feel desperate when fighting. You will definitely still be afraid and nervous, but voluntarily subjecting yourself to the impact of a punch every day through training in boxing will set you up much better to handle a road-fight-type situation in which you are likely caught flat-footed.
Simply put, boxing is excellent for your cardio, and it will allow you to last a fight much longer than if you were not trained. Boxing is incredibly energy-efficient — a trained boxer is not going to get fatigued from battling several opponents. Martial artists must train to counter strikes in order to build a superior response, particularly since strikes are the most common attack form in street fighting. Learning to box or Thai boxing in Muay Thai will give you decent kicks on your body and legs, which can be a simple way of stopping your opponent without giving him or her brain damage (which is much more likely when using boxing techniques).