Injuries have held this sport back sooooo much...

[marksmen]

It's a pure fact. Injures have held this sort back so much it's unbelievable. Recently with Cormier and now Ferguson getting injured. If the injuries were even cut in half this sport would be way further along. It seems every time we get excited for a fight an injury happens. For as long as the UFC has been going there is always an injury that ruins a card or makes it way less appealing. The UFC needs to do something to keep this from happening. I understand that injuries are going to happen but it seems way to excessive. If you take away even 10% of the injuries that have happened over the years this sport is way further along then it is now. Nowadays people just expect injuries to happen. If a fight card makes it to the date unharmed it's almost a miracle. The UFC has to figure out a way to decrease the amount of injuries. It is really hurting the growth of the sport and when an injury happens it kills cards almost instantly. I can't imagine the money the UFC has lost on cards and PPV sales on injuries alone. Thoughts?

 

[ClosetVitorFan]

This is why I'm very pro peds. I mean you can't even take them to recover from injury faster. Crocop is basically forced into retirement because he was open about being prescribed HGH for an injury. Wtf is that about? Fuck these rules. They suck. Allow TRT. And allow drugs for faster recovery. Period. If under a doctors care and regulated. It can work!

 

[Arm Barbarian]

For sure, like the last year or 2, it seems like fight cancellations due to injury have been much more prolific.

Almost getting to the point where you can't count on any big championship fights to make it to fruition.

 

[ocfightfan]

The UFC should force them to fight anyway. Amirite?

 

[McGeezle]

What I wanna know is why it's ALWAYS the fucking main event and no one else, ever.

 

[wilKO]

When fighter insurance came in injuries went up. Which is good. Who wants to see injured fighters fight each other because they can't afford to not fight. Imagine the amount of excuses. Oh wait...

 

[ExitLUPin]

No more 3-4 month camps, so many of these injuries happen like a couple weeks before the fight. Training camps do not need to be that long and the most active guys are almost never injured (DJ, Cowboy, Magny, Max etc)

Injuries are the worst part of spots, shit happens but training camps need to see changes

 

[Crimson Glory]

It's because fighters don't train smart.

They should spar like the Thai's do, light contact. None of this hard sparring non-sense.

That would at least get rid of injuries due to sparring.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Because the pay is so shitty there's a lot more incentive and pressure to become champ, or at least get close to the top of the pile. Causing fighters to over do it in training. Anyone who forgets how shitty the pay is, just think back to the first time you watched an event and then the first time you learned what they earn.

 

[ClosetVitorFan]

It's because fighters don't train smart.

They should spar like the Thai's do, light contact. None of this hard sparring non-sense.

That would at least get rid of injuries due to sparring.

And that's a major problem. Camps like AKA pride themselves on really pushing themselves. That's why Khabib and Cain are almost always injured. The funny thing is. I may get hate for this. But their skills aren't that great. Cains stand up is rudimentary. His wrestling is ok. But he has no sub game. You know how he wins? Simply outpacing his opponent. It's 100 percent condition based training. No sharpening of skills. Just a "If I keep a pace higher than my opponent, twice the output, I win" mentality. And Khabib does the same shit. They need to change.

 

[McGangsta]

cause dumb ass camps are going full contact sparring way too much instead of just training and drilling techniques

 

[Paradigm]

#1 cause of injury in MMA? Most likely wrestling. You are not likely to tear an ACL in standup sparring.

Also, MMA is full of meatheads, not technicians. This isn't traditional martial arts.

It's because fighters don't train smart.

They should spar like the Thai's do, light contact. None of this hard sparring non-sense.

That would at least get rid of injuries due to sparring.

What the fuck do the Thais know about longevity? Their legends only make it to 200+ fights or so.

 

[Crimson Glory]

What the fuck do the Thais know about longevity? Their legends only make it to 200+ fights or so.

And fight like 3 times a week or something. They clearly know nothing. It's all luck.

 

[HAWTRIDDUM]

Only ones I see that train smart are the fighters that spar lightly. There is still just too many trainers out there that are set in their ways and refuse to evolve.

The camps that have this "hard sparring/grappling fight simulations till 2 weeks out from the fight" protocol are the ones with all the major injuries just before fights.

 

[TheChance]

This is why I'm very pro peds. I mean you can't even take them to recover from injury faster. Crocop is basically forced into retirement because he was open about being prescribed HGH for an injury. Wtf is that about? Fuck these rules. They suck. Allow TRT. And allow drugs for faster recovery. Period. If under a doctors care and regulated. It can work!

It's too bad i can only like this once

 

[ameeksingh]

 

[Ube]

when I was 23 I started MMA/BJJ/Muay Thai and trained 3 hours a day. after 6 months injuries racked up for me and my training partners, and we weren't even on the pro team sparring hard as fuck. I found out how little money fighters made at that time and realized that this was a sport not necessarily for the skilled or athletic, but rather the very durable; this drove me to quit. Just so much for so little.

I think it's inherently a brutal sport, taxing on your knees, ribs, neck, head, shoulders--you name a body part. So there has to be some shift in consciousness when it comes to training and someone (if it hasn't been done yet) needs to find a way to adapt the thai style of training (as mentioned by someone already) to MMA. If not, we will see athletes regularly busted for PED's that help recovery, or we'll just have to deal with canceled fights left and right,

 

[Daywalker300]

injuries is part of the game deal with it

 

[Bilbo Gaggins]

Its worse than your favorite ball player getting injured before the big game. Not sure of a pragmatic solution, though.

 

[zephid]

What I wanna know is why it's ALWAYS the fucking main event and no one else, ever.

Because people who fight in the main event can usually afford to "miss" a fight. Fighters who are lower down on the pay scale need the money so they can't pull out for every little thing.