Boxing

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Boxing Injuries:

Boxer’s Fracture →  It’s a fracture that is caused by punching still objects and occurs in the metacarpal bones. These are the bones that lead from your wrist joints to your fingers.

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Concussions →  Concussions are some of the most common injuries in boxing since opponents aim for each others heads. Concussions are also one of the most serious injuries in combat sports, some scientists believe that repetitive blows to the head cause permanent damage.

 

Dislocated Shoulder →  A very sudden but painful injury that is better of treated quicker.

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MMA Injuries:

MMA is a combat sport which brings various martial arts together, meaning injuries are even more common. There are some moves such as choke holds that you can do in MMA that aren't allowed in other combat sports like boxing.

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Weight Loss Problems:

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In most combat sports there are weight classes so that fight can be more fair and even. This rule was also created to keep some fighters safe because weight, height and reach which play a very crucial role in these types of sports. Even though weigh ins were created for safety sometimes they are very dangerous for fighters. They need to go through intense training programs to alter their weight. While for some fighters this isn’t a problem, some cannot take it, For instance some fighters are called pound for pound fighters, who keep changing their weight to fight people, like Canelo or Gennady Golovkin (GGG). While these fighters are used to this, others aren’t. In 2013, Brazilian fighter Leandro Souza died after trying to lose 15 kilograms in a single week.

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Brain Damage:

Many scientists have tried to prove that boxing and MMA lead to brain problems. In 2015, a neurologist called Charles Bernick studied 224 fighters and found out that repeated blows to the head caused them to have “smaller brains and slower processing speed”. He also said that boxers suffer from this more because “boxers get hit in the head more.”

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