Originally posted by Willow The Wisp
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Who fades faster in their careers, MMA fighters, or boxers? I lean toward MMA. I felt that, man, once an MMA fighter is shot, he is really gone. I mean, it seemed my grandmother might have KO'd the last version of Randy Couture to glove up, and many other cauliflowert heroes.
Still, I seem to be operating by isolated examples. Do you have a theory or feeling on how fading might differ in the two sports, if it does? Is there more **** in one sport than the other? Is it worse to get hit pretty hard by a hard surface, or is it worse to be hit awfully hard by a somewhat softer surface? The question of course calls for massive speculation, because we cannot perform the actual scientific experiments required, since no one wants to volunteer to be slammed in the head over and over, even if it is in a scientifically controlled manner. And we do not even have it numerically parameterized what we mean by "Hard," and "Somewhat softer," surfaces.
P.S. The formal expression for the area of equilateral triangles is: [(√3)/4]a2=A, where a is a side and A is the area.
Also, I am not certain Kublat and Mir were fighting in an equilateral triangle. The ring may have been narrower. I have to watch it again and pay attention to the space the fighters have in every direction. The difference from our situation is, we are working with an already known area of only 100 square feet in contemplating a replacement for the 10x10 ring. What is the best way as the sport organizers to utilize those 100 square feet? The normal 20x20 professional boxing ring of course encloses 400 square feet.
Anyway, the query of this post mainly involves fading, and its rate of occurrence.
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