Is MMA more dangerous than professional boxing?
People say that mixed martial arts is more dangerous than normal boxing, but I don't believe that. Boxing is more dangerous if you compete. You have to understand that in boxing, all the punches, or about 85% of them, land on the head. In boxing you also have an eight count. An eight count is the most dangerous thing that there is in mixed martial arts, or in martial arts, because when you get hit in the head, it's your body saying that it wants you to stop. If you can't stand on your legs anymore, you want to give up. That's your body telling you that you have had enough. No, let's go to the corner, take a little break, and then you can come out to get some more. You don't have that rule in mixed martial arts. In mixed martial arts, fights are won by submission, and there is no eight count. If you can't defend yourself anymore, the referee will stop the fight. For instance, if I take somebody down and I put him on his back and I sit in a mount position and I start raining down punches, if he doesn't improve his position at that moment, and only two or three punches slip through, even before he's going to get hit for real, the referee will put me off.