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Originally Posted by steve@thaib
With apologies to over worked moderators for getting involved in an old thread that has been dredged up......
Sorry Bryan, but that just doesn't wash.
Muay Thai is a brutal sport, and the thin gloves plus coconut shell box really don't make it safe.
I kind of, sort of, take the point that it's better for the brain if a fighter is knocked out cleanly rather bashed around repeatedly over a period of time but your argument that it's safer just doesn't stack up.
1 What about the fights that go the distance? Plenty of them do.
2 Elbows and knees are just connections for limb extremeties in western boxing. How much damage is inflicted by an elbow or knee to a head in Muay Thai?
3 At all the shows I have been to in Thailand I have never seen any sort of medical staff or facilities. I've seen guys knocked spark out and carried out 'leg-and-wing' style, and the only medical equipment is a slap round the face and a cold sponge.
In western boxing matches there are good medics on hand instantly, get knocked out in Thailand and you had better be a tuk-tuk ride away from the hospital and have a mate around to take you.
There is a bit of sense in what you say, but only in the most abstract way.
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I am with Bryan on this (in fact the exact issue was on Fight science the other night)..
MMA gloves couples with the MT stance showed a higher inpact and hence more % knock outs.. Its the faster knockouts and less multiple impact concussions that make lighter gloves counter intuitively more safe.
Notice thats more safe not safe.