How exactly do fighters get ruined after wars?

[strykr619]

I don't know, Motocross racers go through the worst injuries imaginable from severe concussions to broken backs and necks including being in coma for days spending months in a wheel chair. They are able to recover and come back to compete at the highest level. Yes, sometimes they get taken out of commission due to the extent of the injuries but they break bones and get concussions over and over and some come back as stronger or stronger(Trey Canard paralyzed for almost a year, multiple concussions and had placed 3rd in the last two races, Villopoto, broken femur and blown knees with multiple concussions and has won the SX championship the last three years).

Some will say this is not a good analogy but the fact is their bodies and brain(concussions) take a beating during their careers and they keep coming back. Their bodies are full of plates, screws, rods, pins. They go through "routine" surgeries just to change or adjust some of that hardware.


Again, some will never be the same but the majority are able to bounce back. I think we are missing something in this equation, this is just my opinion.

Sorry but Motocross is a bad example. They do not go thru consistent head trauma like Boxers, NFL players are a much better example. They are the only sport that rivals the amount of consistent head trauma that boxers experience.

[Drunk Punch]

Your brain is a blob of jelly incased in a spikey hard shell, it's just not designed to withstand repeated concussions.

[mathed]

Good post. That's when we get the "gun shy" fighters who are afraid to throw at all after going through a war in his previous fight. Physical trauma can shake a mans spirit and leech away his confidence.

I think a lot of it is mental as in confidence. Anyone can get knocked out but to me it's like once an undefeated fighter loses via KO, they typically get shell-shocked and trigger shy. It usually happens as soon as they get tagged hard in the next fight in their "comeback". Lucien Bute is a great example of this. He could and should have smashed Pascal to bits but he froze up and I guess just kept having flashbacks of the Froch fight. The only time he opened up late in the fight, he hurts Pascal and could have dropped him.

These other fighters that keep getting KO'd after the initial time, it's like they get hit, freeze up and don't know what to do and they leave themselves open to hard punches while frozen. RJJ is the only fighter I can think of that just got KO'd consistently by a single shot....he really lost something upstairs and you can tell by the way he talks now, slurred speech, gets fighters names wrong all the time, etc.

[New England]

your brain doesn't heal like your bones, muscles, soft tissues, etc.


christ, i thought you guys were supposed to be boxing fans...

[PopPop]

Rio a fighter due to lose 5 more times before retirement. Way too many battles.