in light of his other achievements during that decade, and considering his momentum... not sure if you could call that unreliable?
he certainly did not look unreliable in the rematch
He looked spectacular in the Griffin rematch.
I’d also say he looked weird in the Mike McCallum fight. Went to the ropes and lost early rounds.
On the HBO version Lampley and Merchant were saying that was all part of the plan and he wanted to let McCallum go the distance. Foreman was saying he didn’t think Jones wanted to let him finish at all.
I thought he showed a potential to let a decision slip away from him the Griffin and McCallum fights. If things had lined up slightly differently and he’d fought a prime Michael Nunn a few years before he came into his prime I think there was a serious chance he would have been outpointed on the judges cards.
I'm not going to get in a big back and forth with you and your premise is stupid (you're going to say"I didn't say it doesn't exist, I only said the media... bla bla bla").
Maybe I would say “I didn’t say it doesn’t exist” because that was obviously my position from the thread title.
If the premise is stupid then you should say that to the best Neuroscientists in the world because that’s what they are saying.
If you can’t see what’s wrong with plastering people with a narrative that they are susceptible to a phantom brain disease that is tenuously linked to a huge range of effects then I’d have to question your sense of common sense.
If you come back I have no idea where those quotes you posted came from as you posted so many links, most of them not from scientists themselves.
Do a bit of research regarding the effects of the brain slamming against the wall of the skull.
Well aside from working in medical research and having a degree in medical science I’ve also taken time to compile the video in the OP.
I must have “done a bit of research” to compile all the quotes and time stamps.
Care to actually post something from a scientific paper to support what you are saying or refute specific arguments.
Many of the best Neuroscientists in the world are cautioning that’s CTE is being over blown.
Besides CTE is not the only brain disease so I don’t see what your quote has to do with what I’m saying.
... Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 30, 1968) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennet_Omalu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion_(2015_film)
Concussion is a 2015 American biographical sports drama film directed and written by Peter Landesman, based on the exposé "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, published in 2009 by GQ magazine. Set in 2002, the film stars Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist who fights against the National Football League trying to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players. It also stars Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Albert Brooks.
https://youtu.be/d9-JvPZVUbk?t=447
Hollywood jumped the gun on that one according to some.
That was a theory that has never been proved in the 15 years since the work.
This guy does the same job as Omalu. He says according to him and all his colleagues "there's nothing there" in the Omalu report on Mike Webster;
Floyd Mayweather is rightly considered one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. Now listen to him talk in interviews compared to say, eight years ago. And it's only gonna get worse over time...
I honestly can’t tell the difference.
why doesn't this surprise me?...
Are you saying it’s part of the conspiracy against Dr Omalu?
To be fair some of the things they accuse him of e.g plagiarism he can only really do to himself.
... Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 30, 1968) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennet_Omalu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion_(2015_film)
Concussion is a 2015 American biographical sports drama film directed and written by Peter Landesman, based on the exposé "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, published in 2009 by GQ magazine. Set in 2002, the film stars Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist who fights against the National Football League trying to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players. It also stars Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Albert Brooks.
Washington Post article alleges Doctor Bennet Omalu is a fraud or an incompetent;
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/sports/cte-bennet-omalu/
I dunno, but it’s sad when past greats and not do greats struggle to string a sentence together by middle age ...
I’m actually glad to I went with bodybuilding over boxing
It affects some but no where near as many as the media would have you believe in my opinion.
It's more of a thing for boxer's who carried on too long and journeyman.
That's why the commission's really need to step in more on journeyman in my opinion.
... "there's nothing there", of course... Omalu was actually fighting a multi-billion business, right?... :)
If Omalu was fighting the NFL who are so powerful then why is there a disproportionate amount of media about CTE in the American press?
Pay doesn't seem right considering he won the first fight.
That said I think it's in his interests to get an immediate rematch because if he goes 2-0 against Joshua he can sure negotiate a big payday for his next fight. The sooner the rematch is the more it favours him in my opinion.
I think everyone would reassess their opinion of him in light of such a result (and it's not like he's lightly regarded at the minute).
It's hard to imagine what he would look like in the fight for starters (would he come in bulked etc).
He's not even top 50 P4P.
Had he been born 30 years earlier, no one would have ever even heardof him.
His hand speed would stick out like a sore thumb fifty years ago.
I tend to favour modern fighters over old school fighters but I legitimately think the Duran that fought Leonard could give Mayweather a run for his money and probably win.
I'd call it 60/40 for Duran.
You and majority of this thread are the most delusional fans right next to mcgregor fans. The ppv can be Mountain vs elite boxer and people like you would say the elite boxer will flatten that mountain by round 2.
Under boxing rules?
Under boxing rules the mountain is a Z Level can.
He would get smoked by any remotely competitive HW journeyman.
I’d like to see McGregor get knocked out to be honest.
If De La Hoya had 10 years off on the couch getting fat like pre comeback Foreman before taking a couple of months training then I’d pick him easily.
The only thing that concerns me is De La Hoya’s drug issues, that can mess you up in all kinds of ways.
I don't see it, he will always having bragging rights as one of the most skilled sportsman with the worst physique.
Also Rahman shouldn't be put in there with the others.
McCall caught a very low percentage punch and it was an early stoppage.