More physically demading. MMA or Boxing?

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I've seen MMA guys winded after 20 seconds......

Ugh yeah dragging a well conditioned athlete to the ground using all your bodyweight or getting taken to the ground and eating a bunch of punches while your opponent is on top of you with all his body weight is nowhere near as demanding as 3 min of felling each other oput and conservativly throwing some Punches here and there.


Dumbass!

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Yes elbows, knee strikes, submissions are much worse then people ***ing dying!!

I just don't see how thicker, heavier gloves and being limited to punches only can cause more trauma than smaller, thinner gloves and a multitude of additional types of strikes (knees, elbows, etc.) which have no protective gear at all and are essentially bone to skull impacts. I notice a lot more guys suffering one punch KO's where the guy is out cold in MMA as opposed to boxing.

I'm no expert by any means and these are just my observations/opinions.

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physically demanding present and future, including being concussed and stamina being at a higher level with boxers.

How is stamina at a higher level with boxers?

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ESPN had the same thing and they had boxing as the most demanding sport in the world.

I've seen MMA guys winded after 20 seconds.....I could maul a guy for at least 2 straight minutes at near full intensity before I started to crash and I'm just an average Joe.

Grappling is more demanding than boxing though. There is a reason why someone who has trained for a fight for weeks can get winded after the first round.

Lol at people thinkin MMA fighters get winded because they dont train properly. these are top athletes who are paid millions for each fight and most of them started out as top amateur wrestlers, competing in the olympics etc.

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I notice a lot more guys suffering one punch KO's where the guy is out cold in MMA as opposed to boxing.

I'm no expert by any means and these are just my observations/opinions.

Thats exactly why it's less dangerous because a quick knockout means less blows to the head overall! repeated blows over and over that don't knock a guy out do more damage in the long run than getting knocked out with one punch.

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How is stamina at a higher level with boxers?

Longer fights.

For every elite former ama wrestler in MMA you have just as many BJJ and guys who only started MMA a few years ago with poor stamina and still making it to the big show.

MMA is a very tough sport. So is wrestling and Muay Thai. I don't want to hate on any combat sport but the way the rules are designed in boxing it makes it the more physically demanding.

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Ugh yeah dragging a well conditioned athlete to the ground using all your bodyweight or getting taken to the ground and eating a bunch of punches while your opponent is on top of you with all his body weight is nowhere near as demanding as 3 min of felling each other oput and conservativly throwing some Punches here and there.


Dumbass!

I've seen dudes winded after 20 seconds period....beginning of the match first 3 strikes and the dude is puffing like crazy and leaning on the cage. Not all the matches go like this of course but more than a few. Just because you can make a weight, it doesn't mean your cardio is at peak performance.

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Thats exactly why it's less dangerous because a quick knockout means less blows to the head overall! repeated blows over and over that don't knock a guy out do more damage in the long run than getting knocked out with one punch.

In a way that kind of makes sense........

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Grappling is more demanding than boxing though. There is a reason why someone who has trained for a fight for weeks can get winded after the first round.

Lol at people thinkin MMA fighters get winded because they dont train properly. these are top athletes who are paid millions for each fight and most of them started out as top amateur wrestlers, competing in the olympics etc.

I can agree on the grappling thing to a degree. I have seen some of the payouts for some of these guys and it was really surprising to me...it was like Lesnar I think, he made 500K for the Carwin fight and Carwin was making like 200k or less.

I always thought it was because the MMA guys pack on so much muscle that they got winded easier. The MMA guys are huge...like body builders...that has to consume a massive amount of oxygen.

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Grappling is more demanding than boxing though. There is a reason why someone who has trained for a fight for weeks can get winded after the first round.

Lol at people thinkin MMA fighters get winded because they dont train properly. these are top athletes who are paid millions for each fight and most of them started out as top amateur wrestlers, competing in the olympics etc.

What they also don't realize is they only have 3 rounds they don't have feeling out rounds and they can't take a round off. They have to go 3 rounds full throtle which is one of the reasons why the pace is a hundred times faster than it is in boxing.