And horse racing?Disagree.
Ban F1 too?
If there was no legal boxing there would be illegal boxing and a lot more boxers would die.
Contact sports carry a risk, been more deaths in cricket and Cycling this year than boxing, should we ban them too?
Are you talking about more deaths in total or per 1,000 people?I think the stats have Boxing deaths in the world behind Football players dying .
they should ban it because 99% of fights are boring.
dont get me wrong i love 2-3 boxing fights a year, but mma is gaining at a rate of knots. will only increase with every new generation.
10-20 years from now and it will be mma fights that bull in box office records.
No way, MMA is getting close to reaching its full potential and will start to flatten out, why do you think the UFC was sold recently, they have realised they have milked it and sold at its peak. Apart from Connor McGreggor and people he has fought I would struggle to name more than 3 other fighters and I am a big boxing fan.
Boxing gyms are at the heart of communities across the country, people send their kids there from an early age, people will not be sending their kids to an MMA gym in anywhere near the same numbers.
MMA is far more brutal than boxing to the avid viewer and for this reason it will always have a glass ceiling.
You can't really put MMA down because of a lack of MMA 'gyms' fighters enter into it from kickboxing, wrestling, jiu jitsu etc and these types of clubs have been around a long time. I'm a long time boxing fan who has recently got into UFC and I'd rather watch UFC at the moment because of the unpredictable nature of it. it's great entertainment.
I guess the thing is, if someone's punching you in the head repeatedly, you know that might be a danger.Amazes me that there's all this talk about concussion in the NFL and other sports, even heading footballs, but hardly a word said about boxing.
And watching them!Human beings like a scrap !
I still don’t understand the comparisons of any combat sport to the likes of F1 and football etc. It’s like the Americans comparing deaths of guns vs cars.
People die doing sports, there is a lot of protection in boxing (a lot less in MMA) but you have two athletes pushing themselves over the limit. I don’t think there is a real answer here but I don’t feel the sport is negligent
there's a programme on IPlayer about extreme weight loss by MMA fighters before the weigh in.
Brutal what they put themselves through and lead to a few deaths.
Think ive seen that, the guy just in a world of his own in the bath every 10 minutes all through the night.
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