An injury crisis has turned into an injury normalization in MMA. The sport is off its peak rate experienced in 2014, but card adjustments or fight cancellations are still all too frequent.
While limited, some progress is being made in curtailing injuries. For example, less sparring or overall intensive training practices are being adopted. More importantly, however, is not what fighters are doing less of, but what they are adding to their preparation. Training methods are modernizing or made specific largely on the back of fresh insights about the limits of the human body.
Eliminating injury is an impossible task, but a substantial reduction of it might not be.