Ray Mercer Is Delusional, Thinks MMA Fighters are "Scared of Him"

So, it’s official…boxing really damages the brain. Former heavyweight champion Ray Mercer recently did an interview with Eastsideboxing.com. In the interview, he basically says that MMA fighters are scared of him because of his 12 second KO of former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia. Here’s what he had to say:

J.S: So have you anything else in the pipeline—either in boxing or in MMA? People are still talking about the way you iced Tim Sylvia in what was it, nine seconds?

R.M: (laughs) Yeah, I’m willing to take anything that’s offered to me, you know. But those MMA guys, they don’t seem to want to fight me. I don’t get it. I thought they had heart, and yet they won’t fight me and I’m nearly 50-years old, man!

J.S: Your 9-second win sure got a lot of hits on You-Tube, and the fight sparked a debate among fans of boxing and MMA. Boxing fans said, “I told you so. No way an MMA guy beats a boxer!”

R.M: Yeah, and I fought him [Sylvia] his way, with his rules.

JS: Yes, but you never gave him a chance to get his thing going, you slammed him with that right hand to the head so quick!

R.M: That’s right. I definitely don’t think those guys should be messing around with boxers. We’ll KO them because they don’t have the heart we do. It kills me how none of those guys want to fight me now.

They say they have heart in that sport, but I don’t know. They don’t wanna do it, with those four ounce gloves on. I thought they were tough. I was supposed to fight a guy after Tim Sylvia, but he turned it down. I’m really surprised none of those guys will take a fight with me, I really am.

So let me get this straight. Ray Mercer is actually brain damaged enough to say that MMA fighters are afraid of fighting him…in a MMA fight? Is he actually serious? Yes, Mercer beat a former UFC heavyweight champion in Tim Sylvia.

However, Sylvia showed up for that  fight at 310 pounds, 50 pounds heavier than in his UFC days. He obviously hadn’t trained for a fight, let alone someone with a dangerous right hand. However, before you start giving Mercer too much credit and start believing that he could actually be correct, remember that Mercer was once submitted by Kimbo Slice.

That’s right. Mercer was submitted by Kimbo Slice in the 1st round of their fight. Submitted. By Kimbo Slice. Did you get that? Kimbo was also getting the better of Mercer in the striking department as well, so that argument that Mercer was only training for a stand up fight goes out the window.

I have respect for Mercer as a former heavyweight champion, but he is simply spewing nonsense. He connected on a lucky punch with an opponent who’s only form of exercise in the months leading up to the fight was seeing how many cheeseburgers he could eat in one sitting.

He would not be competitive with any top, middle ,or even the majority of lower-tier MMA fighters. No decent MMA fighter is “scared” to fight him.

Mercer has riled up the boxing purists too. Those guys that say that MMA fighters aren’t real fighters, and that any boxer could step in and beat a MMA guy. MMA fans are more realistic.

We know that a MMA fighter would beat a boxer any day of the week in a MMA fight. Manny Pacquiao wouldn’t last five minutes against Miguel Angel Torres.  Floyd Mayweather would be taken down and pounded out by Urijah Faber or Mike Brown in about two minutes. There’s no denying it.

There’s also no denying that if those fights were pure boxing matches, Torres would be done by the end of the 2nd round and Mayweather would KO Faber rather quickly as well. If the much talked about Anderson Silva/Roy Jones Jr. fight ever happens, I’m fairly convinced that Silva would win under MMA rules, while Jones would win under boxing rules.

My point is that the two sports are vastly different. Being good at one doesn’t really give you any chance to compete in the other.

Guys like Mercer and the boxing fans that think that his fluke win prove that boxers are the superior “fighters” need to comprehend that the two sports use different skill sets that don’t really transition very well to the other sport, and that’s ok.

There’s not a competition between the two sports. There’s no need to “trash talk” and badmouth fighters of the other sport. Fans of each sport need to enjoy that sport for what it is without dreaming of what would happen if Silva fought Roy Jones Jr., or if Torres fought Pacquiao.

Enjoy those fighters for the skills they do possess and and for how those skills have brought them to the elite level of their respective sport.

From www.mmagroundnpound.com