The few tools you have the more difficult it is to effect them.
Folks seems to think boxing is supposed to be real fight simulation, it's not.
Boxing way back was like mma, original greek Olympics, and it evolved to what it is because people like it.
If you want more striking options watch Muy Thai, if you want grappling watch bjj, wrestling etc.
Different people want to see different things. Mma has even gone less toward reality fighting recently.
People pay to see whatever they like, not everything claims to be real fight simulation.
In a real fight fuck all martial arts including mma, I'm using sticks, chairs, bottles, eye pokes, biting, nut sack attack, guns whatever.
You guys can start at age 5 and do 10 years bjj, 5 years wrestling, 5 years muy Thai, out it all together with constant conditioning, full time cardio.
I'm gonna just watch porn, smoke a packet of cigs a day, drink whiskey, eat pizza and pick up a length of pipe and destroy you anyway if you stupid enough fuck with me without a weapon.
I'm not stupid enough to fuck with someone else if I don't have a weapon, I just run.