Wanna see what boxing can do to your brain?

[Super_Lightweight]

Pic 1 of a normal brain



Pic 2: a brain after having atrophied, which can occur from accumulated head punishment from boxing



17 percent of boxers suffer significant neuroligical deficit(s) and severe dementia is present in about 6 percent. Dementia is where you cannot talk properly, walk crookedly, behave erratically and have memory problems. The scary part is, unless you suffer a severe beatdown and concussions (which happens as we all know), the boxer will usually experience dementia 16 years after they started boxing. Sometimes it's seen a early as 6 years after and sometimes as late as 40.

[BLOODSHED]

Two words Rid**** Bowe...

also **** the speech pathologist that was reteaching Bowe how to speak to mask the brain damage he suffered.

Pic 1 of a normal brain



Pic 2: a brain after having atrophied, which can occur from accumulated head punishment from boxing



17 percent of boxers suffer significant neuroligical deficit(s) and severe dementia is present in about 6 percent. Dementia is where you cannot talk properly, walk crookedly, behave erratically and have memory problems.

[-Jay-]

I think when guys decide to box, they know there are risks involved, although that looks quite nasty. Karma for you because its good to educate people about stuff like this.

[TheEvilSaint]

the 2nd one looks like diegofuego's brain... if he ever had one.

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

Yeah, it's sad, man. Bowe shouldn't be allowed in a ring. Most boxers began to get KO'd more easily at the end of their careers and that is obviously a result of having sustained head punishment over a long period of time. The little hits add up over the years. I bet you could KO Roy and Hops a lot easier now than you could 15 years ago.

[Red_Menace]

I just finished watching 'Ring of Fire.' There's one part where a journalist mentions who a doctor showed him, when he was having an operation to fix an aneurysm, how the brain was not meant to take punishment, and for some people it could be a thounsand punches or only one punch before their brain is wrecked. It's sad how Kid Parret died, being brutalized after successive beatdowns from Gene Fullmer and others. It makes me wish fighters nowadays, like Gatti and Corrales, would just quit now. They may seem like they're ok for now, but guaranteed they'll be suffering a lot earlier in life than they're supposed to, like Sugar Ray Robinson did, with early alzheimers(spelling?). I love the sport of boxing, and I know that some of these guys are big money draws, because they're exciting the way they get hit and keep coming, but someone should be watching out for their long term health. And it can't be their friends, trainers or their managers, because those people are too tied up in their money. Mind you, I do believe that a lot of trainers really watch over their fighters carefully.

Great post, by the way.

[SilentButViolent]

Karma for you man.....great post i just started boxing 2 months ago

[Super_Lightweight]

lol

Karma for you man.....great post i just started boxing 2 months ago

Be safe, my friend. Use defense. Don't by a Gatti! LOL...so are you having second thoughts now or are you just gonna go forward with boxing?

I boxed for a few years and I'm quasi-retired now. I'm in college and got a bright future in sports management so I think I may stay retired from fighting and just train.

[Red_Menace]

Be safe, my friend. Use defense. Don't by a Gatti! LOL...so are you having second thoughts now or are you just gonna go forward with boxing?

I boxed for a few years and I'm quasi-retired now. I'm in college and got a bright future in sports management so I think I may stay retired from fighting and just train.

Sounds like a smart move. If you've got other areas of success, it's probably the best route to take. I love watching boxing, but at the same time, if every boxer on earth decided to retire and can the whole thing, I would understand, and I wouldn't be upset about it.

[Kayo]

Yeah im learning all about this stuff in my psychology class its just more inspiration to be an amazing fighter n not get hit