Quote from: inthelongrun on Today at 12:55:56 PM

RIP for the guy. Another death for boxing, another day of mourning. What could be possible changes in boxing to avoid future casualties? Boxing is a sport for the warriors though. These guys know that death is always in play once they enter the ring either for a real fight or a sparring session.

When there's a boxing casualty, it always leads me to remember when a boxing promoter tried to stop the UFC from becoming mainstream. I think it was Bob Arum or Don King, calling MMA as a sport for barbarians and branding it as very dangerous and it needs to be stopped. Correct me if I am wrong but I haven't heard of any deaths or fighters in a coma in the UFC or in MMA in general.

This is a sad truth about boxing when a fighter was continuously been hit to the head it will surely cause some damage to the brain, that is why there are more recorded deaths in Boxing than in MMA, and this is even with gloves on what if the fight was bare-knuckle, there will be a lot of deaths in combat sports for sure,

I think t was Simon Jordan that commented that MMA was more brutal and barbaric but Michael Bisping has put him in his place because Bisping knows he is spouting nonsense and doesn't really know MMA and MMA have come in different kinds of sports not only boxing, and if you look at the technical aspect of thing with MMA it consistently changing its rules to suite its safety and prevention on further damage for the fighter,

Quote from: Jawhead999 on Today at 02:18:52 PM

There's few deaths caused by MMA, but it's much less than boxing as you can compare it yourself here [1] [2]

I don't think there's a change on boxing to reduce the possibility of death because it just can't. Maybe the referee can make an early stoppage, but most boxers wouldn't agree with that and trying to convince the referee if he can still fight.

Most boxers doesn't realize if they're suffering a brain damage because there's no sign of the disease during the fight, but after few hours they will realize if their body become weak or ill which mostly already too late.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalities_in_mixed_martial_arts_contests
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_injuries_sustained_in_boxing

Thanks for those links certain people are more afraid of MMA than boxing and for saying how barbaric MMA is, and surely agreed with you that there can not be any rules that could change and prevent the number of deaths in boxing maybe if they can limit the rounds? that is why Mayweather prefers to fight only in exhibition matches because his body can not go beyond rounds 3 to 5 anymore and he knows that further casualties and injuring his health I think just decreasing the rounds that boxing could prevent certain deaths