I never said all that about "any" boxer, "any" fight and "any" day of the week of course. You putting words into my mouth is symptomatic of your inability to prove a point.
But Boxing is a better self defence art than Wing Chun. Heres the super quick version as to why.
1. WC train like pussies in comparison to the brutal fitness and hard contact training that boxwers undergo.
2. Boxers have a much smaller syllabus. They are masters of a few techniques that have wide application potential, whereas Wing Chun has more techniques that can be really mastered by anyone.
3. Boxing punches are fluid and flexible. WC tap tap tap with their ineffectual little straight jabs, like a pregnant woodpecker thats had a hard night on the booze.......
4. Boxers prove themselves in realistic conditions. WC "Masters" build up reputations by impressing the already converted with flashy demos.
5. Boxers spend all their time on relevant training. WC people play at Chi Sao, forms and air punching in much of their training time. They "imagine" it to be relevant trainng. But it isn't.
6. WC exploded in popularity. Like so many other "popular" arts, standards dropped as instructors made money out of dishing out grades to as many paying members of the public they could. But this is not pssible in Boxing. There are no grades. In order to prove themselevs they fight each other, so theres no deception as to real ability.
Now I don't think boxing is a complete art. Not by a long way. It would have to include pre emptive strike/fence training, some kind of grappling and verbal judo etc for that. But it is a far far better base upon which to build your self defence around than flashy flicky jabby crappy mainstream Wing Chun.
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