Posted on 04/12/2016 12:45:14 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
Exactly, and perfect example. Rugby, a game I have played (and love), has a lot of superficial injuries (eg the skinned knee, bruised cheek, etc), but has fewer serious injuries compared to the more protected/padded football. Ironically, it’s that protective padding that leads to players making moves most rugby players wouldn’t do.
Roundhouse kicks to the temple can definitely be lethal, but most times they are not (and don’t even cause knockouts among trained competitors, and for that matter most Muay Thai kicks are to the outer thigh since attempting a high kick on a trained opponent is a really stupid move - most times - as it exposes the person attempting it to all sorts of counter attacks). But they are rarely lethal. The issue with boxing is that the padded gloves and multiple rounds lead to repeated head (and also liver) hits, and those add up. To be even more radical, fighting with knuckle dusters would be better as the fight would be over in seconds and only result in a broken nose and lost teeth and such. A multiple round boxing bout, over years, has serious effects
Terrible.
RIP.
Doesn’t seem like the stoppage was late or anything. I wonder if maybe a bad weight cut contributed to this?
That’s what I am wondering too.
Possible, in the past couple of years there has been two weight cut related deaths (Yang Jian Bing and Leandro Souza). Undetected preexisting medical condition is also possible.
MMA is safer
Padded 10-12 ounce boxing gloves allow fighters to absorb more brain web jostling blows
MMA is more abrupt....less padding...minimal...you take a good hit and it is over regardless how good you are
No Randall Tex Cobbs yet to surface in MMA
Everyone loses eventually
Less sustained repetitive injury
It was a Korean
Didn’t Buscemi kill a guy too early on in Beaumont
I’ve seen is team MMA where 6 or 8 guys on one side go at 6 or 8 guys on the other.
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