Even normal boxing is a very brutal sport. If you have ever attended a live boxing event ringside then you already know.
At a ringside, live boxing event one can hear the punches landing, water and/or sweat flying all over, sometimes blood splashes on the viewers, bones can be heard crunching.
Now there is MMA. There is even more brutality in MMA but as long as people pay to watch those events then.....
MMA is actually safer than boxing due to the fact that most fights end either by submission or (quick) TKO/KO. A boxing fight, with its larger gloves, can go on for many rounds with numerous head blows that can lead to repetitive concussions. Which is why the ‘gentler’ boxing ends up with far more serious injuries than MMA.
A guy was killed in a boxing match that was televised live on ABC. Back in 1962 I think.
Oh yes. I've been to one boxing match. Light heavyweights.
So much more brutal than depicted on tv.
Sweat, saliva flying. Sound of punches, 'raspberries ', swelling, very tough business.
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