Brain damage more likely in MMA than boxing

[krimzon]

Mma has been around for 2 generations working on a 3rd...

Tito, chuck, couture, crocop, Hughes, Royce, Severn, tank, shamrock, bas, and countless others have been retired for years and no sign of speech problems

think again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS4bGO5ndVs

MMA is WAYYY more dangerous than mma. You can get yo shins snapped. Yo face elbowed. In baxin' all yous got to do is get punched in the face for 36 mins. Ain't nothin

[toshmurph]

Looks like the old myth that boxers are more prone to brain damage is going the way of all those other myths the MMA guys make up. Click the link for the full story.

http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blo...al-bouts-study
A mixed martial arts fighter suffers a traumatic brain injury in almost a third of professional bouts — far more than the rate of such injuries in hockey, football or even boxing, suggests a new Canadian study.

You've got to think about the number of blows landed over the course of a 30 - 36 minute 12 round fight.. Whereas If a guy is rocked in mma then the natural course is to try and take the opponent to the mat! If you watch mma, at the elite level there's very few truly great strikers!

Another thing is in mma sparring mostly consists of grappling, the actual striking portion of sparring is minimal! Wheras in boxing it's 100% of! MMA is a relatively new sport so we will see in the coming years how many of those guys start to degenerate!

The sport I'd say that is the worst has to be NFL though, I read a story a while back of a 22 year old college wide recieved that died I think in a shooting incident, when the autopsy came back it showed that his brain was the equivalent of an 80 year old!! That is a WR now, not the big meathead linebackers that tale the brunt of punishment! I thought that was crazy to hear, he hadn't even had a full career!

[Bigg Rigg]

think again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS4bGO5ndVs

MMA is WAYYY more dangerous than mma. You can get yo shins snapped. Yo face elbowed. In baxin' all yous got to do is get punched in the face for 36 mins. Ain't nothin

[LA_2_Vegas]

Mma has been around for 2 generations working on a 3rd...

Tito, chuck, couture, crocop, Hughes, Royce, Severn, tank, shamrock, bas, and countless others have been retired for years and no sign of speech problems

Look at Berto, Dawson, Taylor, lacy, and a host of others that were fighting or retired that have speech problems

[MrRolltide91]

They still brutal sports

[croz]

no but many others have and found this to be conclusive. it is fact that boxing causes far more permanent and serious damage. it's not even debatable

but where is your study? Surely if something is a medical fact there must have been some kind of study? I've seen studies on brain damage which show boxing isn't even in the top 20 sports most likely to cause brain damage.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

He was drunk,,, but yes he is the worst I have seen but nothing compared to Meldrick Taylor or toney,,,,

[face untouched]

Well duh lmao

UFC is mainly for hillbilly ass dudes who couldnt cut it defensively enough in boxing or thye kept getting knocked out so they went over to that "sport" where the mediocre can fight the other mediocre and look decent.Just know they couldnt cut it in boxing and they fight like drunken indiots so it suits them.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

think again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS4bGO5ndVs

MMA is WAYYY more dangerous than mma. You can get yo shins snapped. Yo face elbowed. In baxin' all yous got to do is get punched in the face for 36 mins. Ain't nothin

Lol,, that's not Tito being punch drunk with slurred speech,, that's Tito being a horrible announcer... Anchors on local news screw up like that all the time and they aren't punch drunk ... YouTube news anchor fails

[7_rocket]

Well duh lmao

UFC is mainly for hillbilly ass dudes who couldnt cut it defensively enough in boxing or thye kept getting knocked out so they went over to that "sport" where the mediocre can fight the other mediocre and look decent.Just know they couldnt cut it in boxing and they fight like drunken indiots so it suits them.

UFC isn't a sport.