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But as MMA emerges, so do questions about its safety, its reputation and whether or not it can even be considered a sport. Controlled violence Forget the notion of MMA being a haven for dimwitted brawlers.
Bring up the issue of safety to an MMA fighter and prepare to get hit with statistics, medical evidence and a strong rhetorical defense of the punishment inflicted in the cage.
“What makes it safer than boxing is just the totality of the head trauma involved,” said Stuttgart’s Seth Kleinbeck, an eightyear veteran of MMA fighting. “A boxer’s going to be punched in the head several hundred times in a 12-round fight. In MMA, you only take a fraction of the punches.” Kleinbeck, 35, speaks with certainty of MMA’s relative safety, as befitting of someone whose day job involves working as a family practice physician in Hazen.
But the foundation of MMA’s claim to safety is the submission, or “tapout.” A fight can end one of three ways, and while knockouts and technical knockouts happen, many fights end with one combatant simply conceding victory.
It might be a culture that reveres machismo, but every fighter will tell you that quitting is just part of the game.
“There’s no shame in tapping out if someone has you in a good joint lock,” Kleinbeck said. “You’re not a coward if you tap out.” The medical community seems to be siding with MMA.
A 2006 study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showed that while injuries happen in pro MMA fights at about a 40. 3 percent clip, most of the injuries were to soft tissue and not to the head.
The study also claimed that knockouts occur possibly half as often as they do in boxing, and offers the tapout as a reason for the low number of KO’s.
I personally think that MMA is safer due to ref stoppage. In boxing they usually just let the guy get his ass beat until he's knocked right out cold. Sometimes that happens in UFC from one punch but when a fighter stops defending himself the ref calls it. In boxing... the only time the boxer will stop is when the opponent hits the mat haha.
Also tapping out like you mentioned .. Before someone busted a arm or tears their insides to shreds they can tap out and avoid injury. They CAN throw in the towel in a boxing match but that is a very rare occasion from what I've seen and heard.
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I definately agree MMA is safer however a flush kick to the head one of these times is going to really mess someone up. And then what? This is fighting, it's not ballroom dancing. People get hurt in football, boxing etc. It's a physical sport, I really don't get all the big debate. Numbers don't lie, leave it at that.
I'm not sure why you feel MMA is safer. I think boxing is safer. in MMA, you knock someone down you can keep attacking, in boxing you can't. submissions can be dangerous as well as it doesn't take long to move something the wrong way.
Well the statistics actually show that boxing is much more dangerous.A number of boxers have died from being hit.I might have heard of one guying dying in some amture no name mma fight but none in any of the large organizations.I've never even heard of someone getting maimed.Hey in boxing you can even get your ear bitten off.
In boxing all they do is repeatedly hit each other in the head and the'll do it for twelve rounds! Also Dana White who used to be a boxer made a point that boxing gloves where meant to protect the fighter's hands well increasing the magnitude of the blows.Yeah well the amount of cuts to the face is reduced, the trauma to the brain is increased.
Mat wrote: I'm not sure why you feel MMA is safer. I think boxing is safer. in MMA, you knock someone down you can keep attacking, in boxing you can't. submissions can be dangerous as well as it doesn't take long to move something the wrong way.
But again what Doctors have found is that 1 knock out, is actually better for you that getting hit again and again and again for 12 rounds.
And remember if you aren't defending yourself, the ref will call the fight.
i've never been knocked out by a punch, but i have been knocked out a couple times during baseball games by plowing the catcher over, gettin hit in the face with a line drive, and hit in the side of the head with a bat during someone's backswing when i was catching, i'd rather get KO'd then to get punched for 36 minutes straight, boxing is wack and overrated, it's nothing like it used to be
who wants to watch some snobby prick like Mayweather run his fucken mouth about everything that he's so great at and then run into the WWE ring?
boxing=chump
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