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How have matchmakers and fans not noticed that generally speaking these striker vs striker fighters always end up sucking? When the fights get announced everyone is like "OMFG so keen someone is getting KO'd" but it never happens it just turns into a staring competition because they cancel each other. How many fights is it going to take for people to notice, MVP vs Daley, Ngannou vs Lewis, Till vs Thompson, Silva vs Adesanya, etc.
There's a reason I don't watch boxing or kickboxing nearly as much these days because when world class strikers vs each other a lot of the time it turns into a shit show, what is great about MMA is the threat of grappling changes the whole dynamics of the fight and allows for more brutal finishes. In boxing when have super fights ended in the first round with such frequency as DC vs Stipe, TJ vs Cejudo and Cyborg vs Nunes. If you want to see brutal early finishes between high-level opponents watch MMA, don't watch boxing, kickboxing or a matchup between 2 strikers in MMA.
TLDR; fights are much much better when there is a contrast in styles
There's a reason I don't watch boxing or kickboxing nearly as much these days because when world class strikers vs each other a lot of the time it turns into a shit show, what is great about MMA is the threat of grappling changes the whole dynamics of the fight and allows for more brutal finishes. In boxing when have super fights ended in the first round with such frequency as DC vs Stipe, TJ vs Cejudo and Cyborg vs Nunes. If you want to see brutal early finishes between high-level opponents watch MMA, don't watch boxing, kickboxing or a matchup between 2 strikers in MMA.
TLDR; fights are much much better when there is a contrast in styles