Boxing legend Marvelous Marvin Hagler bashed MMA and its practitioners recently by calling them terrible and bar brawlers.

Marvelous Marvin Hagler weighed in on the mixed martial arts in front of reporters in the Shangri-La Hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.

"That sport right there, I can't see any art inside. If you wanna teach a kid how to fight (in MMA), you can just take him to the bar. That's what it looks like to me."

He then called grapplers and the ground fighting aspect of MMA terrible:

"I can't understand them laying on the floor like that, and the ref don't get them up. It's terrible."

MMA incorporates stand-up striking techniques such as boxing and Muay Thai along with the ground grappling methods of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, wrestling and Judo. Its widespread popularity is hugely attributed to the Ultimate Fighting Championships and Asia-based One Fighting Championship.

The topic of MMA was first raised when Hagler pointed to a dearth of heavyweights in present-day boxing. "Everybody's hoping we'll find another heavyweight like Mike Tyson but I don't think we're gonna find that," he lamented.

"Fighters aren't the same (these days)," he concluded. "They don't sacrifice enough, they're not hungry enough... You gotta have that killer instinct and I see a lot of them, they don't have that."

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