MMA safer than boxing ???

[LoftyDog]

define "safe".

Are we talking long term health concerns or short term?

I think in the long term boxing is definately more dangerous.

In the short term I would say MMA because there is much more potential to take greater damage, have something broken or hit the ground wrong. A sub isn't a sub because it just "hurts" a sub is a sub because if you don't submit you get choked or something gets broken.

Yeah, if someone holds the back of your head and shoots a knee into your face or gets on top of you and starts blasting you with elbows, its going to look a lot worse in the short term, but a boxing takes so many punches to the head, thats what causes brain injury. And its not just that, look at fighters who are punch drunk. How many boxings end up like Meldrick Taylor but are overlooked in the statistics?