Izzy Carnwath tells how one doctor’s televised beating helped launch one of the first serious pushes for MMA safety with Safe MMA.
Werner Forssmann threaded a catheter into his own heart. Alexander Fleming tested penicillin on himself. John Paul Stapp strapped his feet to rocket sleds zooming at 600 mph. History’s bravest pioneers have often risked all in the name of science and in 2011, Dr. Jack Kreindler joined their ranks by stepping into a cage to get deliberately battered on live TV. He entered the cage at Ultimate Challenge in East London to get intentionally beaten by Nick ‘The Headhunter’ Chapman as part of a BBC show, ‘How to Beat Pain.’ Safe MMA started there…
