Is mma more brutal and damaging to the body than boxing?

[luv3s2sp00g3]

Think about all the MMA fights that go nearly the whole fight on the ground. The ones that end in submission or decision or whatever and is a snoozefest. Those fights leave no real damage to the fighters. That counts for a LOT of MMA matches.

Now think about the ones that end in TKO stoppage. The refs stop those fights really, really quickly. Usually as soon as the fighter hits the floor and takes a few grazing and not very clean shots while on the ground. If the fighter got knocked out there, either way he takes no more than a minute or so of punches to the head AT MOST.

Quick knockouts like that don't leave nearly as much damage as a grueling 12 round boxing match.

Although the one thing I will say that is pretty brutal about MMA is when they get kneed in the face during a thai clinch (like when rampage got knocked out by vanderlei silva). Or when they get stomped on the ground back when pride was still around. But generally boxing matches have way more accumulated damage and concussive blows to the head. More long term damage.

[Silencers]

I don't think so, the knockouts may be more brutal in MMA but the long term physical damage of boxing is worse.

[Equilibrium]

MMA looks more brutal because of the elbows, knees and kicks. Cuts happen more often too.

But in terms in punishment i think boxing is worse, they take a lot more shots and fights are much longer than mma, plus in mma once you go down or get ground and pounded it's over. In boxing you get a chance to stand back up.

[Domain]

Think about all the MMA fights that go nearly the whole fight on the ground. The ones that end in submission or decision or whatever and is a snoozefest. Those fights leave no real damage to the fighters. That counts for a LOT of MMA matches.

Now think about the ones that end in TKO stoppage. The refs stop those fights really, really quickly. Usually as soon as the fighter hits the floor and takes a few grazing and not very clean shots while on the ground. If the fighter got knocked out there, either way he takes no more than a minute or so of punches to the head AT MOST.

Quick knockouts like that don't leave nearly as much damage as a grueling 12 round boxing match.

Although the one thing I will say that is pretty brutal about MMA is when they get kneed in the face during a thai clinch (like when rampage got knocked out by vanderlei silva). Or when they get stomped on the ground back when pride was still around. But generally boxing matches have way more accumulated damage and concussive blows to the head. More long term damage.

Thats what I ****ing hate about MMA! when the guys are throwing sissy shots that aint doing damage from the mount they stop the fight...remember brandon vera vs werdum? that was a horrible stoppage.

IT is messed up they should get rid of that **** when the guy on top has mount and the guy on the bottom is not out let the guy on the top gas out! dont stop it unless the guy on the bottom is getting hit hard or knocked out! because the guy ont he bottom is just waiting many times for the guy on top to shoot his load and gas throwing those punches.

and then the guy on the bottom can buck up.,

[larryx]

boxing is more accumulated damage

[ferocity]

It can be, but prolonged shots to the head are more damaging than a lot of what happens in MMA. MMA refs stop fights quickly...

Ask Leavander Johnson's widow if she would have rather seen him in a 15 minute fight than a 36 minute one...

Thats a ****** question. I recall Leavander Johnsons people already knew that Johnson has a problem but took the fight anyway because Chavez wasn't a puncher or known as a puncher.

[Cadillac Man]

Just ask a DR who is invovled in MMA and Boxing and they'll tell you boxing by far is the more dangerous sport due to the repeated blows to the body and head especially if a fighter is weight drained. Just look at fighters who take a beating in a fight sometimes they are never the same I.E. M Taylor and F Vargas. See Duk-Koo Kim or Oscar Diaz both televised on LIVE TV for proof that Boxing is FAR more dangerous than MMA.

[KostyaTszyu44]

well way more deaths in boxing, and more sustained prolonged punishment in the fights

[bsrizpac]

I was with a group of friends last week fliping channels back and forth between mma and boxing. I have actual hands on expierience in both but several of my friends do not. The ones that didn't were suprised of the violent nature of mma and felt it was way more damaging to the body than boxing. What do you think?

No. MMA is for quitters and ******* as it is now.

TRUE NHB is a damaging sport. It doesn't really exist anymore.

[Kastrioti]

Dana White saying that UFC is safer than boxing