Boxing Quote by Demian Maia

The average MMA guys have a boxer's stance which makes it easier for a wrestler when they try and take you down. I tend…

— Stephen Thompson

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew…

— Chael Sonnen

When you're training, and even when you pick somebody up in sparring, you're not going to slam a guy on his head. That's basically…

— Dillon Danis

A lot of wrestlers get guys to the ground in a mixed martial arts fight and think that's it. But no, we gotta get…

— Bob Sapp

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get…

— Royce Gracie

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to…

— Lamont Peterson

I've always been a defensive wrestler, but when I go in there in the fights, I get so caught up in trying to knock…

— Quinton Jackson

When you fight MMA, there are so many things involved, so many techniques, that you just can't do everything or you'll over-train.

— Demian Maia

When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer.…

— Nikki Bella

I've said it many times that wrestling is the best base to have in MMA. It's been instrumental in my MMA career and it…

— Dan Henderson

Most really good wrestlers, especially heavyweights, once they're finished with their collegiate careers they don't want to continue the grind.

— Curtis Blaydes

If a guy's a very good wrestler or a really good boxer or has a really good high kick, you prepare for that. It's…

— Benson Henderson