Reply #9: SInce you say you know little about it I will tell you [View All]

that clip is an exceptional fight. I watch MMA semi-regularly and from what I have seen grappling decides way more fights than kicks and punches. Many fighters typically just block a couple strikes and then move in close, where strikes can be irrelevant. So, often times fights will end without a major blow being landed.

You are of course right that it is a brutal sport where contestants' bodies could easily suffer traumatic injury. But, I do not think it is exceptionally more dangerous than boxing, and it almost can't be more dangerous than the most brutal modern sport of them all, American football. I know they wear pads and there is no actual fighting, but when two giant professional athletes slam into eachother while running full speed in opposite directions the forces involved are far greater than in a fight. That is why football players are, according to the TV, more likely to suffer head injuries than boxers or any other fighters.