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Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) are undoubtedly two very different combat sports and fighting systems. To completely adopt a traditional boxing stance, or rely only on boxing as a fighter in the sport of MMA, would definitely not be the best approach. It would make you susceptible to takedowns, elbows, and paralyzing low kicks-which are arguably a boxer’s greatest weakness in the cage outside the take down.

However, that doesn’t mean that the techniques and concepts used heavily in the sweet science can’t be beneficial in the sport of MMA, especially when clinch fighting is employed from the dirty boxing perspective.  Being well-versed in traditional and Dirty Boxing techniques will not only improve your ability to punch harder, faster, and transition better between different upper and lower body attacks, it will also help to improve your ability to land a combination, counter-attack, or even avoid strikes altogether depending on your range. 

Boxing, when trained properly for MMA,  amidst the traditional and clinch fighting perspectives will improve the practitioners overall reflexes, reaction time, and athleticism; the foundation of which will lay the ground work for more advanced systems such as Filipino Suntukan, Muay Thai, Dutch, Kick and Shoot Boxing.