Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
If they're going to ban boxing (which they won't), they'd better ban MMA first.
At least in boxing the punches stop coming when the other guy falls down.
Both are brutal sports, but the logic is that there's less head trauma in MMA (in general) than boxing. If a guy gets knocked down in MMA, usually the opponent will jump on him and throw a few punches (usually not landing clean) and the ref will stop it, whereas if a boxer gets knocked down, he'll get 10 seconds to get up and clear his head to take more punishment. The bigger boxing gloves allow a fighter to take more concussive blows to the head without being knocked out (in comparison to smaller MMA gloves), and history shows guys really don't get killed with one punch or on a quick, brutal KO - like this case here, boxing tragedies always happen after prolonged punishment. But yeah, I think if you get rid of one you probably have to get rid of all combat sports.

Boxing is a brutal sport, there are real consequences to getting your brain rattled over and over, and it's always going to be a hard one for the general public to accept because it's one of the few sports where the objective is to give your opponent brain damage.