Since the UFC pushes Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) to the mainstream, an age old question remains: Why Is MMA safer then boxing? The major premise behind the debate has always been that unlike boxing, in MMA, there are more routes to victory compared to hitting your opponent. Highlighting the apparent, there are less painful routes to success, thus creating some losses in MMA less damaging on a fighter’s body and mind. The Unified Rules of MMA make it feasible for an MMA fighter to win a bout by judges’ choice or by maybe submitting their competitor. The resulting notion is that MMA athletes suffer fewer traumatic injuries and the odds are lessened that they may become jaded drunk. However, proponents of boxing are always quick to point out the bigger gloves implemented in MMA and the fact the rules allowing for leg elbows and strikes. Therefore”it is time” to take an in-depth appearance to either side of the argument. Before getting into the thick of the argument, I want to highlight one of the key reasons I decided to write this report. Shawn O’Sullivan, a retired fighter that I have met many times, lives in my hometown. On paper, his life looks like a success story. However the real truth is that his boxing career killed his odds of having a successful life after his career was finished. A brief documentary on his narrative are available below.Many would consider O’Sullivan’s career marginally illustrious as he was the 1981 World Amateur Champion, 1981 Canadian Athlete of the Year and 1984 Olympic Silver medalist at light middleweight. Also many consider his gold medal bout against Frank Tate very controversial as it appeared like the fix has been in. Despite scoring two standing 8 counts at round two the judges given that around to Tate. Upon going pro, he found himself fast murdered in 1988 with failed comebacks in both 1991 and 1997. Shawn’s overall record of 23-5-0, together with 16 knockouts passed him without reaching his dreams of competing in a world title bout. Following four fights in 1997, a neurologist refused to renew the permit he had to continue boxing due to brain damage he saw during a CAT scan. Today, O’Sullivan is living with the issues of brain damage, however, he doesn’t regret his career in boxing. During my many conversations with O’Sullivan, he almost always slurred his speech and had problems recalling parts of his life. Regrettably, his ability to talk about his story is all he has to show for his illustrious career. But, that is hindered as a result of the culmination of blows to the head that he suffered during his boxing career. O’Sullivan suffers from fighter’s dementia, commonly called being”punch drunk” caused partly as a result of the fighting style and gruelling sparring sessions in the gym. If you want to find out what I mean, take a few minutes and see his bout against Armando Martinez. What remains untold to many, and something which highlights the relevance of the guide is that O’Sullivan was pushed to boxing with his first trainer: his dad. Rumors are his dad was letting his son spar against heavyweights and even larger men as part of the everyday reality test for O’Sullivan. As parents, an individual may feel uncomfortable advocating that your child partake in any battle sport out of this fear of the long term consequences. Therefore signing your child up to either boxing or MMA training could become a question of which is safer? Is there a chance that you could help choose the lesser of two so-called evils. Until recently the whole argument behind MMA is safer then Boxing was entirely theoretical. There remains to be little scientific facts and findings to support the claim. The University of Alberta’s Dr. Shelby Karpman led a review of over a decade’s worth of health care exams from approximately 1,700 fighters in Edmonton, Canada. According to the study, Fifty-nine percent of MMA athletes sustained some form of injury, compared to 50 percent of boxers. However, fighters were likely to eliminate consciousness during a bout: seven per cent versus four percent for MMA fighters. Irrespective of the facts to as which sport is safer, The Canadian Medical Association has called for a ban on both MMA and boxing. By highlighting a 2014 University of Toronto study showed an MMA fighter suffered a traumatic brain injury in almost a third of specialist spells. It is not my aim to cast doubt on the safety of a game, however both boxing and MMA have had instances of fatalities which are well documented. Recently a MMA fighter died because of complications reducing weight. John McCain, who once labeled the game of MMA”human cockfighting,” sat ringside in the 1995 boxing death of Jimmy Garcia. But, very few severe life threatening accidents in MMA come to mind because none have happened on its primary point. A fighter’s passing within the Octagon has never occurred and hopefully it never will. But it’s something that has to be in the back of everyone’s mind once we see fighters getting knocked out lifelessly. Rendering an opponent not only defenceless but unconscious remains to be the name of the fight game if it’s MMA or Boxing. That is where a fighter’s fanfare, bonus money and continuous hype derives. UFC President Dana White declared MMA the”safest game in the world, fact.” The concept that MMA is the most popular sport in the entire world is mad. Tennis, golf, track and field, swimming… are”safer” sports because they lack head trauma all together and pose little risk of passing. Touting up security should come with a duty to completely study the ramifications of your sport. The construction on what’s going to be known as the UFC Athlete Health and Performance Center starts this shortly and will take 15 months to finish. Alongside medical insurance for training injuries, this can be MMA’s second most significant step towards taking on more of a top role in sport safety. That said, Dana’s end game is that Scientific research will eventually brand MMA as a”safer” choice for battle sport athletes compared to boxing. But, it might just further the game’s inverse relationship. Since MMA increases in popularity, boxing’s visibility in the national consciousness continues to fall and it’s easy to finger stage. It also can not be stressed enough that the very first generation of fighters are just getting out of the sport over the past few years. Science has an incredibly small sample dimension to look at with respect to aging MMA fighters at this time, though UFC originals such as Gary Goodridge are already feeling the consequences. We probably still require a few more”generations” of fighters to retire and grow old to have an actual feel for the impact of the sport on them as they age. And by that I mean fighters who have had to compete with other high level athletes, not boxers who had been the very best of a sport that was still very much in the developmental stages. Fighters like George St Pierre, Demetrious Johnson and Ronda Rousey are not likely to face any longstanding consequences of brain injury primarily because of their runs of dominance as well as their ability to avoid substantial damage. Johnson recently said on the Joe Rogan Experience that”There is not enough money in the world for me to risk brain damage.” Johnson, like many other fighters that are educated, understands that taking too much harm in his career will harm his longevity both inside and outside the game, and that is why he is so conscious of his safety in the Octagon. Perhaps that is the reason why he’s never lost consciousness in the Octagon. Whatever the case, it is difficult to use findings of the past to find out the safety of the game now. So much constantly changes inside the sport of MMA that trying to compare between eras is essentially the same in trying to compare completely different sports. Maybe then a better approach is not to examine the sport’s past, and instead on its current and foreseeable future. The debate about which sport is safer because of the glove size is moot. The amount of punishment a fighter takes over their career is individualistic and highly determined by a fighter’s style. The main selling point as to why MMA is more powerful than boxing is truly the glove dimensions. The boxing glove has been made to guard the hands, not the person being punched. However MMA practitioners argue that they utilize the bare minimum in hand protection. Any debate surrounding how a hand will break before the head is not the most appealing strategy to advocate for a safer game. The same goes for the standing eight count. Arguing that permitting a concussed fighter to continue in a fight after being knocked down only furthers brain injury. In MMA we see that a whole lot follow up punches after a fighter is rendered unconscious — possibly equally damaging to permitting a fighter to continue after receiving devastating blows. There are many factors in determining the devastation of a landed punch–from technique to time, to whether or not the recipient saw the punch coming–which it would be almost impossible to determine at a live match that glove size could have caused the maximum damage. What’s more, there are a number of different rules and elements that determining which game is safer. The average period of a Boxing game is normally longer then that of an MMA fight. There are many factors that are individualistic to the fighter. I’d like to announce each sport equally as harmful, but until additional research is completed, an individual can not make this kind of statement with much confidence. The inherent risks in the sports are intrinsically linked. The capability of a fighter to achieve longevity in the sport is much more dependant on the skills of the fighter themselves their various sports parameters independently. Generalizing which is safer with no scientific evidence to support such a claim remains a matter of opinion.
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