Freddie Roach: UFC using old boxers to make MMA look good

On James Toney making the switch to MMA at this late stage in his career to fight Randy Couture:

I think it’s a bad decision. I don’t think it will work. I think the UFC is just trying to say they’re better than boxing because if James fought Couture in a boxing match James would absolutely destroy him, but if he fights him in a UFC/MMA style fight James does not have a ground game, once he goes to the ground it’s over. It’s completely two different sports and they’re just trying to use older boxers to make their sport look better.

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