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This is typically what mama is: wrestling, Muay Thai, and Brazilian ju jitsu. (At least some Bjj is required to be able to defend yourself from basic chokes).This combination has proven dominant over thousands of free style fights in mma. Right now, almost all mma fighters use these three disciplines. In striking, Muay Thai has proven the most effective, because of the sheer force of the blows, as well as the cutting ability of knees and elbows, and some techniques like the leg kicks, which pay dividends over the course of the fight. A typical Muay Thai practitioners shins will be calcified with extra bone, so that getting hit by it is like getting slammed with a bat.Wrestling is the mainstay of mma grappling, because if you can get someone down, you're going to win most of the time. In reverse, if you want to avoid being taken down, you have to at least have some wrestling skill.Bjj is critical to avoid defeat, at least. In the first years of UFC, no one could beat Royce Gracie because they didn't know how to defend chokes. He would just grab the neck or back or leg or arm and bend you the wrong way, and you'd tap. Defensive bjj at least is critical so that if someone attacks you like that, you don't panic, because there are very specific movements you have to do to get out of those chokes or locks.Boxing only allows use of fists. It does not teach you elbows, knees, or kicks. One elbow can slice your opponent open. A knee to the face or body can end a match because of the sheer impact. Kicks can keep you at bay all day because of the range. Why would you give up on all these weapons, to just focus on punches?

For the simple answer to your basic question:Because the technology and financial incentives at the time of boxing’s origins were more conducive to ropes than cages. It also probably didn’t seem smart to create a boundary that stood a pretty good chance of injuring the fighter all by itself. You might as well be asking why MMA fighters don’t fight in transparent plastic bubbles.Now I recognize your question details call for a more specific address of your stated concern. However, I’ve watched about 8,000 fights since 2009 alone, and I’ve seen maybe 2–3 fighters fall out of the ring. At least one of these (Kermit Cintron vs. Paul Williams) was not knocked out or even down, but tripped (or if you’re more cynical) dove out of the ring. If this strikes you as a recurring problem, I’d hate to hear what you think of the takeout slide at 2nd base and the brushback pitch in baseball.Even when a fighter does fall out of the ring, it’s not like he drops 4 feet onto concrete or anything like that. There are long, usually plastic tables with ringside officials sitting at them that span virtually the whole length of the ring on all sides, and just a matter of inches lower than the ring apron. Cintron is the only guy I’ve seen even partially land on the floor, and that was after he initially landed on the table. And as I somewhat alluded to earlier, a lot of people believe he was trying to get out of the fight, as he seemed to be leading against a guy who everyone thought was the better fighter.As Steph wrote, the give of the ropes is much much safer than a cage, in any case.

I’m a lawyer, but this is not remotely within my area of practice, so don’t take it as actionable legal information, and certainly not as advice.Criminally speaking, I would say no, unless the surviving boxer did something way beyond the pale of normal competition. For instance, if someone did what Lucia Rijker’s character in “Million Dollar Baby” did and caused the opponent to break his/her neck on a stool, then I’d say in most jurisdictions something akin to an assault charge would be possible, at least.But usually, when someone dies from a boxing match, it’s a result of repeated hard blows over several rounds. That’s the type of thing that the fighters are specifically licensed to do. Even something like rabbit punches wouldn’t probably change this calculation, since almost every boxer does that to some extent. The referee is charged with the responsibility of reining that in, and in theory should disqualify the offending fighter at or around the point that he or she goes beyond the bounds of legitimacy in the context of the sport. In that sense it would be sort of like a hockey fight. Technically against the rules of the sport, but not at all unexpected in the normal course of it.There is a similar calculation with regard to civil liability, but again with the caveat that I really only have knowledge of the setup in common law jurisdictions, via my 1L torts class from several years ago. The principle that would come into play here, it seems to me, would be assumption of risk. If you are choosing to fight in a sport that is known to cause traumatic brain injuries (occasionally catastrophic in nature), you are making an informed choice more likely than not. If the other fighter is operating reasonably within the bounds of the sport as ordinarily conducted, there is no liability because, to put it simply, that’s what you signed up for. That doesn’t mean that the commission or certain agents thereof might not accrue some potential liability by how they handled the situation (ie did the referee let the fight go way longer than he clearly should have, or did the ring doctor clear him to go back home after he showed signs of brain injury), but again unless the opponent did something like hit him with a chair from ringside or decided to start a ground-and-pound attack in the wrong sport, then that fighter would be covered legally by the defense of assumption of risk.

It depends on your goals and your pro management, among other things.My impression over the years is that most top level pro fighters have at least somewhere in the range of 100 amateur fights. That's probably the minimum kind of background you would want if you were grooming a fighter from scratch to be a champion. But sometimes guys turn pro with little or no amateur experience, often because they need the money. Especially in some countries like Mexico and the Philippines, you might see a talented fighter turn pro at 15 or 16 years old because he has to feed himself. If a fighter is talented enough and gets matched carefully enough, it is possible to learn on the job and make a decent or occasionally better than decent career.If you don't expect to be a contender and just want to have the experience of being a pro fighter and maybe winning a fight here or there, maybe all you need to do is have a few amateur fights and some decent training just to make sure it is really for you and that you know your way around the ring a little bit. There is certainly nothing to prevent you from going pro with that level of experience. It's just that if you go that route or start pursuing boxing in your 20s for the first time, you have to prepare yourself for the likelihood that you will never be better than a journeyman. If you are in that situation, there's really no point in trying to force yourself into 100 amateur fights over the course of several years.Wins and losses as an amateur might give you a hint as to your skill level, but I wouldn't get too hung up on meeting a certain standard for number of wins specifically. If turning pro is your main goal and your amateur career is only a means to that end, you mainly just want to focus on learning and getting the experience in the ring that you need to maximize whatever potential you have. Besides, since most amateur fights come in tournament settings, if you get a lot of fights in a certain period of time, chances are you are winning a lot more than you are losing, anyway. If you are continually losing in the first round of tournaments, it will be difficult to get a ton of experience in a reasonable amount of time, and you might need to manage your expectations and plans accordingly.