Posted on 04/12/2016 12:45:14 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
(CNN)Fighter Joao Carvalho has died in hospital after suffering head injuries during a mixed martial arts (MMA) bout in Dublin, Ireland.
The 28-year-old complained of feeling unwell after Saturday's fight against Irishman Charlie Ward was stopped by the referee in the third round. The Portuguese welterweight, who fought for Team Nobrega, was taken to hospital and had emergency brain surgery that night but died on Monday evening after 48 hours in intensive care.
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Even normal boxing is a very brutal sport. If you have ever attended a live boxing event ringside then you already know.
At a ringside, live boxing event one can hear the punches landing, water and/or sweat flying all over, sometimes blood splashes on the viewers, bones can be heard crunching.
Now there is MMA. There is even more brutality in MMA but as long as people pay to watch those events then.....
MMA is actually safer than boxing due to the fact that most fights end either by submission or (quick) TKO/KO. A boxing fight, with its larger gloves, can go on for many rounds with numerous head blows that can lead to repetitive concussions. Which is why the ‘gentler’ boxing ends up with far more serious injuries than MMA.
When one team loses its first guy it's basically game over. The guy that is freed up can join a friend and its two on one, then three on one, then four on one, etc.
The last guy on the losing team is basically put through a meat grinder.
At first I thought it might be good entertainment, but it turned out to be just a bloody mess.
A guy was killed in a boxing match that was televised live on ABC. Back in 1962 I think.
Ray Mancini boxed in a match where his opponent later died. Mancini was never the same after that. (WHO WOULD BE ?)
Bobby Chacon I believe.
Nobody put a gun to this guy's head. It's what he wanted to do. And it cost him.
Gladiators! I salute you. I'll hold th' door for ya.
Nahhh. Not interested in watchin over-hyped Type A's pound each other.
'Sides, there's plenty of that goin around this election cycle. d;^)
“MMA is actually safer than boxing due to the fact that most fights end either by submission or (quick) TKO/KO.”
That is hard to believe. Round house kicks to the temple are lethal.
The sport should be outlawed.
Sort of like football (real football) where the protective equipment has freed the players to launch themselves like ballistic missiles and bang their helmets together.
Wasn’t MMA illegal a few years ago in the US? I don’t care if it’s legal or not, but putting it on TV is kind of sick, imo.
I’d say let our feral youth duke it out this way. You can’t behave in a civil society, then you get to be entertainment for the masses.
It’s all about how many times you are hit on the head over the course of a fighting career. But I do see that one single catastrophic injury might be more likely in MMA. But they are probably actually hit a lot less.
Freegards
Ping
There was a death in the ring more recent than that.
In the 80s there was a middleweight who was killed in the ring.
Also, The Korean who fought Mancini died as a result of the beating that Mancini put on him. He collapsed in his corner and never regained consciousness. I watched that live on TV.
More recently, a Mexican fighter in San Antonio went into a coma after a fight. That was less than 10 years ago.
Benny "Kid" Paret vs. Emile Griffith
I watched. I can still see Paret slumping to the canvas. It was brutal.
ML/NJ
kim bo koo? He killed the boxer, the mother had a heart attack and the ref killed himself for not stopping the fight. Ray was never the same.
Wow, Charlie Ward, multi-sport wonder... the former Knicks star who was the best Quarterback in New York.
I was wondering what had happened to him...
Oh yes. I've been to one boxing match. Light heavyweights.
So much more brutal than depicted on tv.
Sweat, saliva flying. Sound of punches, 'raspberries ', swelling, very tough business.
MMA fans always crowed that nobody died in MMA matches (unlike boxing); I guess they won’t be saying that anymore.
Sad; RIP.
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