THE best solution for injury prevention in the UFC

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The UFC needs to set up a department that researches all the injuries that cause people to pull out of fights. This department should look into how the injury happened and possible way to prevent it. They should after a few years be able to determine the most dangerous practices and create a best practices list.

Also a bonus should be implemented for making it to a fight. On your second fight that you don't pull out of you get 2%. with 1% extra with every consecutive fight you don't pull out of. It decreases by 1/2 for every fight you pull out of and 100% if you pull out of 2 fights in a row. IE You have 6 fights in a row earning 6% extra then pull out so now you earn 3% for your next fight.
 
Id rather see a penalty than a bonus.

And what they should do is find possible replacements, under a contract they'd agree to, and pay them a lump sum for training in the event of such and such... Theyre training anyway.
 
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They happen because these dudes kick, punch, and manipulate each other's joints for a living. LOL at "research department".
 
lfd0311 said:
They happen because these dudes kick, punch, and manipulate each other's joints for a living. LOL at "research department".
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It seems lost on people that they do this for a living and even going light to moderate - there is always going to be that chance.
 
GordoBarraBJJ said:
It seems lost on people that they do this for a living and even going light to moderate - there is always going to be that chance.
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some of these posts blow my mind. Do you know how you practice kicking people? You kick people. Do you know how Dos Anjos broke his foot? Kicking people. Research complete. I'll be expecting my check from Zuffa any day now.
 
headkicktoleg said:
The UFC needs to set up a department that researches all the injuries that cause people to pull out of fights. This department should look into how the injury happened and possible way to prevent it. They should after a few years be able to determine the most dangerous practices and create a best practices list.

Also a bonus should be implemented for making it to a fight. On your second fight that you don't pull out of you get 2%. with 1% extra with every consecutive fight you don't pull out of. It decreases by 1/2 for every fight you pull out of and 100% if you pull out of 2 fights in a row. IE You have 6 fights in a row earning 6% extra then pull out so now you earn 3% for your next fight.
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Seems pretty simple.....don't do full contact sparring 10 days before a fight thats gonna make you 5 million dollars....
 
Penalty unless a UFC doctor approves disability would get their attention. Obviously there are real injuries and fight shouldnt go on, but fight on something like 90% should be encouraged because of the stakes and a penalty would do it. These fighters who have to be 100% are bad for the sport and business..

If you had like a 30% penalty on your subsequent fight you'd train smarter and not roll the dice up to minute of fight as well. So in the end it might be better for fighters health.
 
if you dont pull out of any fights all year you get a Christmas bonus ( min 3 fights )
 
lfd0311 said:
some of these posts blow my mind. Do you know how you practice kicking people? You kick people. Do you know how Dos Anjos broke his foot? Kicking people. Research complete. I'll be expecting my check from Zuffa any day now.
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Seems pretty simple, but maybe it isn't. why was he sparring with someone who was checking his kicks 12 days before a fight? Is there anything particularly offensive about an injury research department to you?
 
They should just pay like 3 to 5k to have someone ready to step in. A guy between top 7-12.
Considering that on average that are like 5 weightclasses fighting por event (totally making this number up), they would spend only 15 to 25k to have this back-up plan. If they guy fight, then he gets a proper purse, if not, he received 5k to train harder for a month.
 
headkicktoleg said:
Seems pretty simple, but maybe it isn't. why was he sparring with someone who was checking his kicks 12 days before a fight? Is there anything particularly offensive about an injury research department to you?
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How do you know he got his kick checked? He probably came up short and his point of contact was with his foot. In sparring, they're wearing leg protectors anyway, so checking is inconsequential. if you break your foot sparing, it's because you made contact with your foot. You aren't supposed to do that.


EDIT: or his foot got stepped on, or he stepped wrong, or a zillion other things could have happened. You aren't going to eliminate injuries, and dudes deffinently aren't going to stop sparring.
 
How entitled does someone have to be to make a thread like this?
 
lfd0311 said:
How do you know he got his kick checked? He probably came up short and his point of contact was with his foot. In sparring, they're wearing leg protectors anyway, so checking is inconsequential. if you break your foot sparing, it's because you made contact with your foot. You aren't supposed to do that.
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maybe someone should go find out and we can know for sure. Then detail it and help improve the sport
 
headkicktoleg said:
maybe someone should go find out and we can know for sure. Then detail it and help improve the sport
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What difference would it make? The only way to prevent it would be to end sparring. That isn't going to happen. You know how you find out? Ask him. I'm sure they did. they don't need to create a research department and spend a bunch of money on something that nobody really cares about anyway.
 
lfd0311 said:
What difference would it make? The only way to prevent it would be to end sparring. That isn't going to happen. You know how you find out? Ask him. I'm sure they did. they don't need to create a research department and spend a bunch of money on something that nobody really cares about anyway.
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Really nobody cares about people pulling out of fights 2 last minute?

I'm sure people thought it was silly to see how the stars were moving before we watched them and found we weren't the center of the universe.
 
Giving the fight org, any type of oversight is a bad idea.
 
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