Injury PLAGUE: Is It Time For Strict Training Regulations in MMA?

MMA has evolved. It is a completely different game today than it was when the majority of us began getting into it. Whether you were a pioneer watching UFC 1, or a late bloomer like myself at UFC 87 any fanatic has studied and watched a variety of athletes perform in the big leagues in all sorts of Martial Arts mix ups. The fact is that today's gyms are training hybrid fighters. You no longer see fighters coming up strictly on BJJ or Karate or Wrestling. They know everything.
With that being said, I purpose the question "Are we entering an era in which fighters can not safely or healthily train for their opponents during a camp?"  
Personally, I believe that the injuries are a factor in the sport and always will be. 

However, the increase in injuries, especially to top tier fighters is being caused by over training. 

It seems that every other main event is being altered and changed at the last minute due to an injury. 

Vitor Belfort, Georges St Pierre, Brian Stann, Anderson Silva, Thiago Silva, Thiago Alves, Dominick Cruz, Jon Fitch, Hunt, Gonzaga, Griggs, Dunham. 
Do you get my point? 
These are champions, contenders, top tier fighters, fan draws. 

I'm no expert, but this HAS TO BE hurting the UFC's progress and business. 
Correct me if I'm wrong. 

I think it's time for monitored training for UFC fighters. 
Any ideas? 

|The injuries are definitely a problem, but I'm not sure there's really a good way that they could monitor the fighters training.

They're grown men and professional athletes, it's completely asinine to say that they need to have their training overseen by the UFC, as if that is even a remotely practical or possible idea. Do you want to have the athletic commission follow them into the bathroom to make sure they wipe and wash their hands too?

Great post, Ryan.

One of the contributing factors, without a shadow of a doubt, is the new insurance policy that the UFC have given to thir contracted fighters. Up until the Insurance policy, if a fighter pulled out of a fighter, regardless of the reason, they did not recieve any monies. Now, fighters can pull out of fights and still get compensation. I think the injury problem has always been this was, but it is now manifesting itself through the insurance policy. As a sport that amalgamates different disciplines, so does the amount of possible injuries accrue. I do not think there is any way around this.

Good stuff MajorRyan but I think these injuries will continue coming as long as Jon Fitch gets screwed over by the UFC.

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I think that it´s not that injuries are more common now but it´s more about the fact that the UFC it´s more competitive than ever before so you have to train harder you have to be at the top of your game or you will get cut from  the UFC and another factor it´s that now the fighters have inssurance, so even if they don´t fight they get medical treatment for free and that combined with the fact that now fighter make bigger money than ever before, they won´t risk to fight injured, before there was a lot of fighters who fought injured because they needed the money and they weren´t risking big checks, now there are houndreds of thousands of dollars or even millions at stake for a big fighter, and they won´t risk their carreers because of an injury, they rather get treatment payed by the UFC and wait till they get better, and with sponsors and the money they are making that doesn´t put at risk their income, just take a look of the low, middle and high tier of fighters which ones get more injuries???? the new ones seems like almost never get injured (because they need the money)  Fitch, Stann, Belfort, GSP, Cruz, T. Silva, Kampmann all of them are top 10 or  and in a few months lapse they all got injuries, how many newcomers are pulling out of a fight because being injured right now???
Of course this is not every fighter choice JDS fought Cain with a knee injury, but I bet that if he wern´t fighting for the title he would have pulled out.
I want to make clear than in no way I´m judging or critizicing the fighters I´ts just the way I see it, imo those are the reasons that a lot of fighters are pulling out of a fight...if they are not at his 100% or close they are probably going to lose because of the competiveness of the UFC and that will cost the more money than if they pull out

it´s all about the $$$$$