The majority of brain damage caused by making weight and not by punches??

[Ryn0]

The actual draining of the body to get down to weight only has an effect on your body, it's when you start taking punches to the head when weight drained that your proberbly more likely to get brain damaged

[MikeBrew328]

It is true. When your dehydrated the head is less durable to blows. Which would explain Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and many others from back in the day. They used to fight in 100 degree weather, 15 rounds, that's a very long hard session of sweating and getting hit.

The thing dehydration affects the most is the shock absorbing fluid in the cranium. Look at when guys like Cornelius Bundrage got knocked out on Friday Night fights a while back, there's many other examples....

[Boofdatruth]

Punches cause the damage, dehydrations causes the body not to be able to protect itself because you are dehydrated meaning you are lacking something...specifically water and water from food. Dehydrations causes you to be delirious, but does not kill brian cells.

[Boofdatruth]

It is true. When your dehydrated the head is less durable to blows. Which would explain Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and many others from back in the day. They used to fight in 100 degree weather, 15 rounds, that's a very long hard session of sweating and getting hit.

The thing dehydration affects the most is the shock absorbing fluid in the cranium. Look at when guys like Cornelius Bundrage got knocked out on Friday Night fights a while back, there's many other examples....

Nobody knows if Ali's condition was brought about by punches.

[Domain]

My cousin told me that he was talking to a trainer and the trainer told him that the majority of damage that a fighter takes when it comes to brain damage and stuff is from dehydration and not from the actual fight itself.. is this true???

I said this many times I used to wrestle and they had to give us a refractometer test to see if our body fat and water was too low...if our body fat and water was too low we could not wrestle.

in Boxing you see some guys looking like skeletons like Morales, pacman, gatti during weigh ins those guys would not be allowed to wrestle if they came to a weigh in looking like that.

[abadger]

My cousin told me that he was talking to a trainer and the trainer told him that the majority of damage that a fighter takes when it comes to brain damage and stuff is from dehydration and not from the actual fight itself.. is this true???

That is horrifying nonsense. The guy shouldn't be a trainer if he misleads people like that.