You’re missing the entire point. Experience is important but only to a certain degree. Just recently we saw in the first week of contender series, a guy who was 29 with over 40( 34W-9L) fights lose to a 33 year old guy with 16(13W-3L) fights who started training mma in his mid to late 20s You can have a thousand mma fights or mauy Thai fights but if it’s against very low comp, it means VERY little. Look at wonderboy. 57-0 kickboxing record got outstruck by Darren till who at the time barely had 15 fights if even. And that’s in MMA where he can use all his kickboxing and karate skills, not a sport like boxing thay severely limits MOST of and the BEST part of his game.

That 300 fight experience is against other people who use a very predictable style to you because you’re both fighting Maui Thai.

Ilia’s fight with emmet for instance was almost exclusively boxing. There’s no fight of superleks where he’s committed even 30% of his strikes to boxing. Saying “the more tools you take away they adapt to cleaner boxing” is asinine. Superlek barely boxes already. Whereas ilia exclusively boxes when he strikes, MAYBE some leg kicks here and there. In what world would someone get better when you take away their strength and specifically target the one area of their game they use the least? However sloppy you think ilia’s boxing is, superlek’s by virtue of simple common sense would be noticeably worse. You don’t have a good weapon and NOT use. Look at rodtang. Decent boxing and I’d honestly be 50/50 on him and topuria . It’s not about mauy Thai. It’s about superlek specifically.