UFC president Dana White believes MMA is safer than boxing and
kickboxing. He’ll go even further than that when it comes to the safety
of fighters under contract with the UFC.
“It’s the safest sport in the world when you know you’ve got two healthy
athletes stepping into the octagon to compete against one another,”
White told MMAjunkie.com.
But at the same time, he knows MMA is not exactly safe. And nowhere
could its potential danger be clearer than with UFC veteran Gary
Goodridge’s belief that he suffers from “early onset” CTE. (This story originally ran on Feb. 17.)