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- callsignfuzzyLv 77 years ago
Define, "so many".
Training is rough. Fighting is rougher. Guys in the past fought injured more often, partly because the organization was relatively small, and it could be months before a relatively small payday could come by again.
Now, you have more fighters, which means you're going to have more injuries simply because there are more people involved. You have higher paydays, which means that guys don't need to fight as often, at least at the upper levels. As I understand it, the UFC has also just provided insurance of its fighters, so fighters who might have otherwise fought with an injury are now able to take time off to heal.
I don't really think there are more injuries, proportionately, I just think guys don't depend on fighting alone to pay their bills these days.
- 7 years ago
I have said before in this forum that if I was in my late 20s and early 30s now like before when I fought full contact that I am not sure I would fight in MMA. Because of its multifacet approach to fighting the training for it really puts a lot more stress on the body in a number of different ways that you might not experience otherwise if you were just boxing or kickboxing or even fighting Muay Thai. Those fighting arts being a little more limited in some ways also limit the chance for injury as well as if slightly injured or hurt a fighter still being able to train and even fight maybe. I had a couple of fights where I had slight injuries and one fight where I had a very substantial injury but yet was able to cover that up or compensate for those smaller injuries in some ways. With MMA there really is no opportunity to do that I think.
The other thing about MMA is by its very nature and one of the ways a fighter trains and can win fights is by submission. Chokes are one thing but submissions are really quite another and put a lot of stress on things like joints, tendons, ligament, and muscle even. Because of this its not unusual for fighters to experience minor dislocations, ripped or torn tendons and ligaments, and sometimes even muscles ripped and torn. Thats a lot of injury and trauma to some areas that if hurt or injured on a recurring basis will not always heal up as well as what they were before being injured. That's why you are seeing some fighters bodies literally breaking down I think is the accumulation of all that trauma over time is just too much for the human body to handle.
I have stated before in this forum that because of this you probably are not going to see fighters have long or lengthy careers now like you maybe saw in the beginning or like you see sometimes in boxing. Their bodies just won't be able to sustain them, enabling them to fight for 15-20 years like many boxers have been able to do. The level of competition and level of training now in MMA and that top tier of fighting in it probably has effectively shortened the length of time that most fighters will be able to fight to less than ten years and time will bear me out and what I am saying here is what I think.