UFC versus Pure Combat

[bristopen]

O.K,

I said it was a UFC-like fight. At that time I was only a teenager, I didn't know anything about ultimate fighting. Ut was on the news. They said it was in the US. They said the dead guy was a kung fu ka, they showed him in the prelims wearing the black pants. They showed the other mounted on him and punching him real hard. After that, they showed him lying on the mat with a team of medics trying to reanimate him.

That' all what I remember. But it's not important. Deadly accidents may occur at any time in that kind of sport. Or maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit...

I don't know.

[joesteph]

I said it was a UFC-like fight. . . .

That's all what I remember. But it's not important. Deadly accidents may occur at any time in that kind of sport.

[O]ver all comapred to boxing MMA is more safer IMO.

I remember the movie Cinderella Man, starring Russell Crowe as Jim Braddock, who fought Max Baer, a man "credited" (a thing he hated) with killing a man in the ring. I had looked up Baer's fight in Wikipedia at the time of the movie, and the postings by Bristopen and Adonis made me look at Wikipedia again - http://en.wikipedia.org and enter Max Baer.

Frankie Campbell was up against the ropes, taking a tremendous beating from Baer, but Campbell's manager never threw in the towel, nor did the referee simply stop the fight as a TKO. Campbell wound up in the hospital, didn't make it through the night, and an autopsy by a specialist stated that "Campbell's brain had been 'knocked completely loose from his skull.'"

Bristopen and Adonis's evaluations may be right on the money.