What is more dangerous the UFC or Boxing?

I say boxing. Reason being because in the mixed martial arts you do not have to punch someones lights out to win. In boxing the majority of kos are by head shots and you only have the head and torso to punch that is a 3 foot area. In ufc you can win via submission, armlock,leglock or choke. Plus dozens upon dozens of boxers have died of injuries obtained in a fight. Fight fans will recognize the names. Jimmy Doyle, Sam Baroudi, Johnny Owen, Benny Paret, Willie Classen, Deuk Koo Kim, Kiko Benjines, Jimmy Garcia. I could go on and on. The only death i have ever known of in MMA is one Douglas Dredge. |||Boxing is more dangerous.





MMA has always been criticized as brutal and inhumane, so they have taken every precaution to prevent injuries. MMA has the submission rule, where if at any point, a fighter taps out, the fight ends. Submission holds rarely actually damage the opponent; they usually tap out before any real injury takes place.





Also, MMA has the TKO rule. In MMA, if a fighter knocks the other down with a punch, he usually jumps on top and pounds him out until the ref stops it. In boxing, the fighter has 10 seconds to get back up, and if he does so, takes more and more punches to the head. If MMA fighters had that time to recover, they would not be TKO%26#039;d as easily, and would therefore continue to suffer through more strikes like boxers do.





Boxing is more dangerous because they take more shots to the head, without any referee stoppage. They may not be knocked out as easily, but the long-term damage is greater.|||Boxing for sure. The idea of a count, 10 second, 8 second what ever it is, mean means that you can continue fighting even after losing consciousness temporarily. If you lose consciousness in MMA, you lose instantly. So boxing has the right recipe for brain injury, brutal knock out, revive, repeat.|||If you look at Compustrike numbers, there are generally more head shots in a 3-minute boxing round than a 5-minute MMA round. That, plus the standing eight count, which basically lets you suffer a mild concussion then keep on fighting, makes me argue that MMA is safer.|||close call, ya more have died in boxing, but martail arts has only been a main stream thing for a few years, id say that the potential is there for martial arts to be more dangerous, but we%26#039;ll have to wait a few years to find out|||Boxing is more dangerous as of now. MMA is relatively young, we%26#039;ll have to see what happens.|||I agree, but we don%26#039;t know long term effects of mma....I don%26#039;t know though..