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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 block his posts and I still see them quoted. Oh well I guess I'll address this.

The above quote just proves that you don't know what you're talking about. While both boxing and MMA require agility, reflexes, and strength MMA does not require extreme punching power or hand speed like boxing does nor are reach advantages so overwhelming in MMA. If you'd care to think for a moment you would see why this is true. The majority of MMA fights are ended on the ground by submissions. Striking power and hand speed are of secondary importance and primarily serve to set up the takedown in MMA fights. Once the fight ends up on the ground reach becomes a nonissue.

Either lack of handspeed, reach, or lack of punching power could hold an MMA fighter back from being successful in boxing so obviously they would take 1-10% of the money in a sport that they are more suited to.