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No, we'd just see less talanted people doing the lower paying ones.

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You think that whoever is paid the most is the most talented? Maybe in their particular sport, but probably not in sports as a whole.

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That's the point. Particularly when we're talking about two sports that are reasonably simmilar in terms of physical demands. This isn't polo and basketball we're talking about. It's two sports where if you remove skill sets, the physical atrributes and raw talent required are almost identical.

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I don't think you can just remove skill sets and base it on who's the better athelete. Those skills matter, especially if in one sport they're allowed and in another they're banned. That changes the dynamic of the sport.

I think some of it is a comfort issue. If a boxer is making money doing boxing, why bother learning something very different?

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I've trained fighters from both disciplines.

You?

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I find that hard to believe. What do you mean by you've trained them? Were you ever a boxer? MMA fighter?

Some boxing experience and various martial arts (tae kwon do, bits of judo/jiu-jitsu, aikido). More aikido than anything at the moment.