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Originally Posted by mepersoner
You're disadvantaged whether you're on your feet or on the ground against multiple opponents.
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Yeah your at more of a disadvantage when in close combat with them. Submitting two people is a lot harder than knocking out two people. When you are at striking distance you can still punch back. Your best bet is to stay off the ground, pick up something big to use for a weapon to fend them off. Keep some distance. Make sure that all attackers are on one side of you. Defend your friends if you have to. Then head for the exit.
But back to boxing, I have never heard anyone come in to train so that they can be invinceble. People who are looking for something to make them invinceble usually go train in Karate or some other traditional martial art. Most people who come to train at my gym actually think that boxing wouldn't be effective in the streets and just come to do it as a sport. The biggest reason I have heard is because they can't kick. (all those Jackie Chan movies have lead a lot of people to believe that is the most effective street defense).
Brandon, anyone who has told you that MMA is just sloppy boxing or that it wont work on the streets has no idea at all what they are talking about. With some slight changes to a boxers stance, how he defends a punch, and when he throws a punch he can become a good striker in MMA, and with the same changes in reverse a MMA fighter can become a good boxer.