Article claims that Donaire-Montiel demostrates that MMA is safer than Boxing

[AdamGB]

Yes, you can take a more sustained beating... but the author is acting like you can get up, barely conscious and be allowed to fight on?

Maybe if the ref is absolutely incompetent you can... but it is not the norm in boxing.

The majority of referees now days are either overly careful or they get it spot on...

Of course a few fuck up... but the longer MMA is around th more you will see MMA refs fuck up too.

If you put a sport that has been around for decades up against one that has been around for centuries than of course one is going to have a higher number of injury and fatality than the other.

I don't think that either sport is massively different in terms of the level of danger... just the types of danger.

[Kev]

Yes, you can take a more sustained beating... but the author is acting like you can get up, barely conscious and be allowed to fight on?

Maybe if the ref is absolutely incompetent you can... but it is not the norm in boxing.

The majority of referees now days are either overly careful or they get it spot on...

Of course a few fuck up... but the longer MMA is around th more you will see MMA refs fuck up too.

If you put a sport that has been around for decades up against one that has been around for centuries than of course one is going to have a higher number of injury and fatality than the other.

I don't think that either sport is massively different in terms of the level of danger... just the types of danger.

Yeah I agree the OP used a piss poor example to demonstrate his point. But boxing is without doubt a more dangerous sport in terms of long term risk to health.

I don't see this as necessarily bad though. Danger in sport is part of what makes it appealing. There is a reason why Formula 1 and the Grand National are popular imo, and it's not because people like to see objects make their way around a circuit.

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If the referee had only seen Montiel having a 3 second seizure, he would have stopped the fight right away. But he did not see it. He was busy guiding Donaire toward the neutral corner while Montiel twitching on the canvas.

[AdamGB]

They're much more open to head shots and normally have their chins up in the air fairly frequently for whatever reason so it probably balances itself out

If the referee had only seen Montiel having a 3 second seizure, he would have stopped the fight right away. But he did not see it. He was busy guiding Donaire toward the neutral corner while Montiel twitching on the canvas.

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