Where is cage fighting legal

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Boxing is dangerous. Boxers face a considerable risk of brain injury every time they step into the ring. The evidence is not disputed. An article six years later in the Journal of the American Medical Association, entitled Why physicians should oppose boxing: an interdisciplinary history perspective, was equally damning.

Boxing authorities responded by mandating shorter bouts and prescribing strict weight divisions. Protective headgear is now required for all organised non-professional competitions. A fighter pulling hair would be painful and could be used to gain a position or stop the fighter from gaining position. Most fighters don't get the opportunity to use such a strike.

These elbows are more dangerous than a normal elbow strike, and they can cause serious damage. This is something that you could have seen in Pride but will never see inside the Octagon.

Kicks, knees, stomps and any type of strike was legal to the head of a grounded opponent. That means that positions like sprawl, north-south and side control were much more dangerous in Pride than they are in the UFC. Any of these illegal strikes can cause a stoppage to action, point deductions and possible disqualification losses. Probably the most widely-seen illegal move inside the Octagon is when a fighter grabs the fence, or puts their hand on top of the cage.

There is a high risk of serious injury and we all know that there has been a substantial number of historical cases where the fight just went too far.

Throughout history, MMA was banned in a lot of countries. Today, MMA is legal in almost all countries around the world. We ask ourselves — why is MMA so controversial? MMA is just a combination of martial arts, as its name clearly states, so why would a combination of individual arts — that are not prohibited — incite so much talk? Certainly, the main issue the critics usually stress out are safety reasons, i.

While it might be true that there is more physical contact in MMA than in, for example, karate or Taekwondo, there are no precise scientific facts that corroborate that MMA is overwhelmingly brutal, or — at least — more brutal than some other sports like boxing, kung fu, etc. The main problem with MMA is its style, or — the liberty the fighters have. Certainly, there are rules, but MMA fighters usually have much more liberty in their fights than, for example, professional boxers or judoka.

But critics usually take the former numbers as proof that MMA is far more dangerous than other martial arts.