Wayne McCullough on MMA

roo1981

Interesting interview with the Pocket Rocket from sherdog...

http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=8110

dlofnep

Nice.

Kevinly_

It's a nice interview, seems like a nice chap, a bit clueless though. (too small to be a MMA guy? There's a 145 division in the WEC). I'd love to hear he started training MMA and teaching a bit of boxing to MMA people.

Dragan

Yeah, i read that this morning.

So odd to find a balanced viewpoint when boxing and mma are talked about in the same sentence!

cowzerp

waynes a good guy and an honest fella too, i like the way he says there different sports and and that he likes all sports-im the same and would look at them like this too..

Kevinly_

If he comes over to fight Dunne John Kavanagh should get him down to his club after. He'd be a great addition to a ring of truth card.

johnnymc

Kevinly_ wrote:

I a bit clueless though. (too small to be a MMA guy? There's a 145 division in the WEC). people.

And he boxes at 126lbs and under now, once was a bantamweight and is around 4 ft tall :P I dont think he is to clueless!

Kevinly_

johnnymc wrote:

And he boxes at 126lbs and under now, once was a bantamweight and is around 4 ft tall :P I dont think he is to clueless!

well that was badly written on my behalf, i didn't mean it to look like because he didn't mention the 145 division that he was a clueless, it was just an impression.

but to address the weight class, I'd like to know how much cutting he does to get that low and secondly I'd have to say that he'd need to put on a lot more muscle all around to be competitive at mma. Maybe he is too small after all and I am the one clueless!

cowzerp

yes you are clueless, for a boxer to do well in mma he would need a powerful punch-otherwise his main advantage would not be effective and would not make it hard on opponent to risk taking him down, imagine missing a takedown against tyson-not nice, and if he g n p you that would not be nice either-wayne does not possess these attributes and knows this.

Kevinly_

cowzerp wrote:

yes you are clueless, for a boxer to do well in mma he would need a powerful punch-otherwise his main advantage would not be effective and would not make it hard on opponent to risk taking him down, imagine missing a takedown against tyson-not nice, and if he g n p you that would not be nice either-wayne does not possess these attributes and knows this.

No I think you're wrong. For a boxer to be successful in MMA he needs a great punch and a shed load of luck. For a boxer to transition to MMA he needs to learn how to wrestle and how to submit people. He's a bit long in the tooth but if he's lucking for another challenge why shouldn't be start learning the game. Better then going into a boxing match and getting his head boxed in.

cowzerp

because he would be just like any other bloke trying to take up mma at his age-he would have to start from scratch as his boxing is not going to k o anyone, and its not a 12 round slugfest so wayne would be wasting his time-im a boxer and would not bother with mma if i could not punch hard, im learning the rest but boxing will always be my main thing-so im never going to be the best bjj player. neither would wayne be-i dont think you have any understanding of boxing or mma to be honest.

Kevinly_ wrote:

If he comes over to fight Dunne John Kavanagh should get him down to his club after. He'd be a great addition to a ring of truth card.

i dont think 2 or so hundred quid is going to make mccullogh the millionaire do ring of truth somehow!

dlofnep

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