Why do people talk about the long-term dangers of hockey fights but not MMA, where punches to the head are much more frequent?
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Hockey enforcers used to fight a lot more than professional fighters.
A boxer or MMA fighter will go a few times a year, hockey players play 82 games a year. Fewer incidents and long recovery times for fighters.
That’s not to say it doesn’t get discussed in combat sport circles, but there’s a lot of a “yeah we know” feeling around the sport where the goal is quite literally to concuss the other person.
Fighters that get KOed repeatedly do get a lot of pressure to retire before they suffer more serious consequences.
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