Today Camiseta UNAM Pumas Dana White, the president of the UFC, is reported as stating that MMA “is the safest sport in the world”.
Unsurprisingly a lot of negative feedback came from this easily refutable statement. While this comment must be criticized as being factually incorrect, what must not be lost in the dispute is the fact that striking sports have a track record of having an overall risk of injury that is lower than football, hockey, wrestling and soccer.
When compared to other martial arts and combat sports, MMA produces similar injury rates according to peer examined studies which you access here and here.
Scientific literature based on real world case studies must be the bedrock of any dispute addressing MMA and combat sport safety. For any individual trying to find further scientific data about injury rates, specifically concussive injury rates, in MMA and other sports I suggest visiting the Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Uruguay sport Concussion library for access to hundreds of peer examined Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Países Bajos studies.
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