Combat sports such as boxing, wrestling and mixed martial arts are a popular pastime, well-known for key characteristics, most famously being their brutality. The very practice of combat sports carries inherent risks of bodily injury, of particular concern being injuries to the head which have consequences that range from mild and temporary to prolonged and disabling.Despite this, millions of people practice in combat sports daily in the United States alone. Healthy People 2030 highlights that current head injury prevention efforts in the U.S. are inadequate. Fortunately, there are ways to improve these metrics that combine the expertise of coaches, the education of clinicians and the passion of combat sport athletes to improve head injury incidence and outcomes.