[King Kabuki]

Comparing the totals Deaths of both Sports is drastically nonsensical in this case. FAR more Boxing in the World than MMA, the numbers aren't even remotely close.

[El Ninja]

Originally Posted by King Kabuki

Comparing the totals Deaths of both Sports is drastically nonsensical in this case. FAR more Boxing in the World than MMA, the numbers aren't even remotely close.

And Boxing has been around A LOT longer.

[bradlee180]

I don't think death is nonsense...

[Sharkey]

In addition to his previous views on MMA, McCain has also been adament in pushing for change in boxing, as well, particularily in the saftey aspect of it (like a national medical registry and such). Whether he's done enough is up for debate, but for one, he did sponsor and push for S.148, the 'Professional Boxing Amendments Act of 2005', which was passed by the U.S. Senate a few years back.

I don't have all the particulars offhand, but I'm sure they're easily accessible on the net.

[King Kabuki]

I don't think death is nonsense...

I don't think the way you're pseudo-restating the sentiment is appropriate considering you're throwing death around as a matter of statistics.

[bradlee180]

John McCain boxed in the Navy.
John McCain is a self-proclaimed "Boxing fanatic."

In the mid 90's when McCain vehemently went after the UFC like a crusade, not a single death in MMA had yet occurred, yet McCain, then about 60 years old with many decades of Boxing acumen, KNEW that every year several boxers die following fights. McCain KNEW that, yet he pronounced MMA as "too brutal." The evidence points to Boxing as being more brutal than MMA.

Why did McCain still support Boxing while condemning and hounding the other sport as "too brutal" and as "human cock-fighting?" I'm aware of the global representation of boxing compared to the relatively miniscule fanbase of MMA in the mid-90's (which still continues now), Kabuki.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...

[King Kabuki]

Apparently you're not aware of the point I'm making. It has nothing to do with fanbase.

It has to do with sheer numbers of participants, when there's Boxing happening in every State in the Union, and on pretty much every civilized continent on Earth, compared to the number of MMA EVENTS...the numbers far too greatly favor Boxing to state that one having more Deaths than the other is an arguable point.

In other words, overall numbers of Deaths mean nothing when one Sport cannot even begin to comprehensibly achieve the same number of events and participants, let alone Deaths.