Does boxing cause brain damage?

[Barn]

If you only do a little amateur boxing you'll be fine.

However getting hit in the head by trained people, for 6 weeks before a fight, and then on fight night, is bad. Especially because many boxers continue when they're badly stunned or wobbled. Being wobbled or stunned means your brain got shook so hard it's not working properly, to take more hits is real bad.

[Furn]

Only if you get hit.

[ИATAS]

Does American Football cause brain damage? Obviously. Now imagine being punched in the head for 10-20 years or more.

It's the risk combat sports players take.

[Doc Holliday]

I took a human anatomy/biology course to fulfill a college requirement, mainly because I knew mostly females from the nursing program would be taking it too. Sure enough, there was only one other dude in that class. It ended up being one of the hardest courses I ever took, though.

Anyway, within the course we had a participation requirement, and I'd always ask boxing-related questions. I did ask a question on KO's, and the prof answered that indeed, KO = brain damage. It doesn't take asking an expert to figure that out, though, does it?

I also asked what's the worst that can happen from taking a kidney punch and the answer was death.

[HtotheZ]

It does but boxing is safer than many other sports in terms of head trauma. On this site boxing was so absent from the top 20 sports likely to get you brain damaged they felt an inclined just to add a paragraph bashing boxing for no reason.

http://www.aans.org/Patient%20Inform...%20Injury.aspx
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Roller and Inline Skating: 3,320
Ice Skating: 4,608

Wtf @ Cycling having the most outta anysport.... never woulda guessed that lol

interesting site

[VatoMulatto]

everyone suffers from brain damage to some degree. if you ever had a concussion or drank alcohol you are braindamaged.

the issue is when you do too much, take alot of punches to the head over a long period of time or drink on a regular basis for years.

if you are a good boxer, meaning schooled in the art of hitting without getting hit you should be fine unless you fight way too long. you can take alot of shots and get knocked out without any noticeable effect, everyone has their limit though.

...but how long is too long? I don't believe just because you're happen to be a good schooled boxer that you will most likely be fine. You will get hit LOTS of time during your career whether you have good boxing skills or not. Not just during the fight but all the 1000 of sparring rounds that you'll do.