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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
mma is still very new and has a max of what? 5 rounds? boxing has been around for much longer and used to be far more popular so not sure what any stats would prove here. Most deaths were do to serious mismatches, prior injuries or too many fights that went into deep rounds. How many deaths from olympic boxing? That is closer to the kind i was talking about. Nobody here is good for 12 rounds anyway.
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One could argue that MMA style fighting goes back to the Roman times. Also, Wrestling was an Olympic sport before boxing.