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I'm too old school to enjoy watching MMA. My friends tried to get me into watching it back in the early days of UFC when folks like Gracie and Shamrock were laying opponents to waste, but I was stuck in my boxing ways. My nephew loves watching it though.
If anything, I think a boxer could survive in the UFC, but it would take him some time to adapt. A UFC fighter will come at a boxer from much more angles, using weapons other than their fists. A boxer will have to adjust to still recieving blows when he goes down instead of getting a standing 8-count to clear his head. In essence, a boxer will have to overcome the 'restrictions' of his sport to adapt to the MMA, amost like how an NBA player would have to adjust to the tighter officiating, trapezoidal lane, and other rules of FIBA play.
Aside from that, it's a matter of culture between boxing and MMA, and all it takes is the greed of a few shameless promoters to destroy the goodwill that exists among MMA fighters like they did with boxing.
And yeah, I think Mike Tyson as a MMA fighter would've been absolutely devastating. I gotta dig up the pictures of what he did to Mitch Green in a street fight.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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