Whenever I watch ufc or ofc, I notice the fighters are flooded with so much impact to their bodies. How are they so durable tho? I get they do conditioning. I also do body conditioning because I do mma too. But whenever I spar someone it hurts so much after. In the moment, my adrenaline deals with it but afterwards everything hurts so much. Do they also feel this?
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I boxed for 15 years and I think the biggest thing you are not considering is fighters learn how to take a punch. Learning to roll with punches greatly reduces the damage they do. This is clearly demonstrated when you see fights where one fighter gets a surprise blow in that the other fighter wasn’t prepared for and the fight suddenly ends. It wasn’t that the punch that landed was some sort of super punch just that it caught the other fighter off guard. Also a lot of the punches thrown (especially in boxing) are not thrown with full strength because speed is prioritized over power. This is especially seen with the lighter weight classes. Heavy weight fighting requires a completely different strategy due to the simple fact that the blows that land are so much more powerful.
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