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Touchline issue 23 | April 2016 | 27
The NFL is heading back to Mexico when the Oakland Raiders
host the Houston Texans in a Monday night game on 21
November at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. It will be the first
game there since 2005, when Arizona beat San Francisco 31-14
before 103,467 fans.
The NFL has had concerns about the quality of the stadium, and
also has concentrated on staging matches in London, where
there will be three in 2016 for the third straight year. But with
modernisation of Azteca and the NFL’s interest in the Hispanic
market, a return was expected.
A new study claims that boxing poses a greater risk of serious
injury than mixed martial arts, which has a reputation for being
one of the most brutal and bloody of all contact sports.
"Yes, you are more likely to get injured if you are participating
in mixed martial arts, but the injury severity is less overall
than in boxing," explained lead study author Shelby Karpman,
sports medicine physician at Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic,
University of Alberta in Canada.
"Most of the blood you see in mixed martial arts is from bloody
noses or facial cuts; it doesn't tend to be as severe but looks a
lot worse than it actually is," Karpman noted.
The researchers reviewed a decade’s worth of data from medical
examinations following MMA and boxing matches and found
that MMA fighters face a slightly higher risk of minor injuries.
Boxers, however, are more likely to experience serious harm
from concussions and other head trauma, loss of consciousness,
eye injuries, smashed noses and broken bones. The study
involved review of post-fight records from 1,181 MMA fighters
and 550 boxers who fought matches in Edmonton between
2003 and 2013.
The researchers found that 59.4 percent of MMA fighters
suffered some form of injury in their bouts -- significantly higher
than the injury rate of 49.8 percent for boxers.
Most of these injuries were bruises and contusions. But boxers
were more likely to experience loss of consciousness during the
bout (7.1 percent compared with 4.2 percent for MMA fighters)
or serious eye injuries.
Boxers were also significantly more likely to receive medical
suspensions due to injuries suffered during bouts. The research
was published in the
Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.
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