that answer proves alot?
You have no clue! see? that proved just as much.
Im willing to change my mind if Im wrong..
In one thing you can get hurt standing up.. in the other standing up And on the ground and on the way to the ground how can Only standing up be worse injury wise? =)
Because it's sparring and you are not going 100%. The differences are not so pronounced that mma guys should only fight two times a year lol.
You very rarely get muscle injury's with experienced grapplers, your body adapts. You are not locking in subs, so that's that out of the window. So it's just reduced to a stand up component basically.
Not forgetting the fact that guys like Dempsey, Johnson et cetera used to train grappling as well, as fighting out of the clinch and roughhouse tactics were a lot more prevelant back then.
Fighters from all combat sports should fight a lot more often. All of this 3 plus month training camp routine is a modern thing.
The guys used to fight so often that they didn't need training camps.