Boxing more dangerous than UFC?

[blackgloves]

Heres yet another story that makes Boxing look more dangerous. Crazy stuff

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2787955

[Loftin]

I think I read somewhere that UFC has never had any fatalities. That makes it less dangerous than basketball.

[blackgloves]

I think I read somewhere that UFC has never had any fatalities. That makes it less dangerous than basketball.



naaaa.....:stupid:

[whitelightnin_23]

there was a thread not too long ago that legel started about the most dangerous sports (in terms of fatalities)...

horse racing was #1...

[blackgloves]

there was a thread not too long ago that legel started about the most dangerous sports (in terms of fatalities)...

horse racing was #1...

how about just over all dangerous? thats what Im talking about. Horse racing is up there

but Boxing vs UFC?

[whitelightnin_23]

how about just over all dangerous? thats what Im talking about. Horse racing is up there

but Boxing vs UFC?

i'd say boxing all the way...

but then again, it's been around a while, & we can see the long term effects the sport has on boxers.

[blackgloves]

i'd say boxing all the way...

but then again, it's been around a while, & we can see the long term effects the sport has on boxers.


yeah thats what Ive been saying for awhile now

I guess all those mins in the ring (boxing) add up more than the ones in the UFC otagon


It will be intersting to see how the UFC guys are as far as they're health 15 years from now.

[legelegel]

Death under the Spotlight: The Manuel Velazquez Boxing Fatality Collection (http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth_a_0700.htm)

Journal of Combative Sport, Jan 2007 (http://ejmas.com/jcs/)

[legelegel]

In boxing there are no forearms and elbows to the head. I wonder why? Could it be that bone on bone will break bone?

Boxing has its place in sport. It is the manly art of self defense. It's just a simple thing that it needs. Put on the head gear. Professional fights should be scored on ability and skill, not on how much damage you can do to an opponent.

The promotion of street fighting in the ring can be stopped too. What a great example it is for our youth to see it on television; two men trying inflict bodily harm on each other. Don't we already see enough fighting on the street now. Do we need to promote more of it on TV?

[hmiles619]

In boxing there are no forearms and elbows to the head. I wonder why? Could it be that bone on bone will break bone?

Boxing has its place in sport. It is the manly art of self defense. It's just a simple thing that it needs. Put on the head gear. Professional fights should be scored on ability and skill, not on how much damage you can do to an opponent.

The promotion of street fighting in the ring can be stopped too. What a great example it is for our youth to see it on television; two men trying inflict bodily harm on each other. Don't we already see enough fighting on the street now. Do we need to promote more of it on TV?

they call these fights pretty quick. When they stagger around in boxing, they keep fighting...sometimes they even win that way. If the same thing were happening in UFC the fight would be over (stopped)

[whitelightnin_23]

they call these fights pretty quick. When they stagger around in boxing, they keep fighting...sometimes they even win that way. If the same thing were happening in UFC the fight would be over (stopped)

exactly...

most of the time fights are stopped due to blood (an open wound, similar to boxing) or because the fighter is "unable to intelligently defend himself"...and miles is right, many times, in boxing, the fight continues past this point...

legel...it is much more than "street fighting". I know it is difficult to learn about something you seem to despise...but, if you would look at the sport and see the great skill that is involved...most of the time, the matches go to a "ground and pound" competition...in which the art of wrestling and various positions/holds come into play...

it's much more of a chess match than a "street fight".

[legelegel]

I have enjoyed college wrestling for a long time, but I do not enjoy watching someone being battered into submission, choked off or having their limbs put at risk. Sorry but it is difficult for me to even call that a “sport”. I have watched both the UFC and BoDog fights. There is no question that these men are highly trained and skilled at what they do. I just don’t see the need to put two men in a pit and see which bodog can make the other bleed or scream in pain first. It is very similar, if not the same, to what the Romans thirsted for and to what we have done when we have pitted two animals against each other.

My thinking is that they have created a professional "sport" with an edge for former tough guy, college wrestlers and I don’t like it all.

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