Comments Thread For: Michael Katsidis Charged With Burglary, Court on 10/30

[Larry the boss]

Ok but how mentally stable do you really think this guy is after taking all of those punches to the head?

It always great to watch and he is glorified as a warrior when he is fighting but damn, the downside of taking all of those shots has got to be equally as dramatic.

I would think

Taking all those punches?? he is a warrior and fans worship that right?? he is suppose to stand toe to toe and fight..**** defense that is for coward runners

[Larry the boss]

What a piece of **** criminal...thats what we are suppose to say right?

[-Kev-]

If you can make millions of dollars from boxing, do it, make as much as you can. Look at what happens to most boxers after retirement. Boxing does not offer the pension plans MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL have for their retirees.

NBA: After 3 years - $56,000+ per year upon retirement. $195,000 per year if you gave 11 years of service to the NBA.

MLB: After 43 DAYS of service, you already qualify for the MLB sponsored pension plan of $34,000 per year upon retirement. After 10 years of service, you get $100,000 per year upon retirement (62).

NFL: After 3 years, you qualify for $5,600 per month, starting at the age of 55.

NHL: $45,000 annually which is max pension, starting at the age of 45, if you played for 160 games or more. If you played less than 160 games, you still get max benefit.

http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0710/top-pro-athlete-pension-plans.aspx

Lol that is on top of the millions they made while being active players.^

Boxing = **** sport to be in, **** fans, **** life after you retire(If you didn't make millions).

[New England]

That's true but dementia effects everyone differently, and I don't think his age would really factor in as much as the damage taken and how it effects him as an individual.

Of course I am no doctor and I am not walking in Mikes shoes but I for one think that the damage he has taken has impacted his mental capability and his ability for reason.

"Symptoms and signs of DP develop progressively over a long latent period sometimes amounting to decades, with the average time of onset being about 12 to 16 years after the start of a career in boxing."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_pugilistica

that's from wiki, but the article sources some actual scholars and studies.



it's obvious that the punches he's taken will have had an effect on him at this stage in life, but years down the line is when boxers truly start to become "demented." slurred speech, loss of motor function, we see these things in recently retired fighters. it's the delusions, mood swings, etc, that appear to take longer to set in.

neither of us are in his shoes, as you said, but i don't think we can blame boxing entirely for a 34 year old, who still has enough left to get fights, burglarizing a house.

[El-blanco]

People who run out of oxy/morphine and other Rx opiates and go into sudden withdrawals act crazier than crackheads in my experience

I used to date this coke addicted stripper who eventually turned to oxys to bring her off the high. The cokeslut I could handle, the oxyslut was a nightmare.

[El-blanco]

we are like family, you and i. a black / jamaican uncle and his white nephew. good looking dudes both. fast runners and sh#t. you know.

We're finally reunited

[E. O. Wilson]

Didn't he have a pain killer addiction? If that story is true I'm assuming he hit a house that had a stash. Oxys and morphine will make people do crazy, out of character, ****. Still unacceptable.

People who run out of oxy/morphine and other Rx opiates and go into sudden withdrawals act crazier than crackheads in my experience

[E. O. Wilson]

I thought I saw an article not long ago where he was charged with possession of some pain pills that were not scripted to him, hate to jump to conclusions but I know first hand from an addicted ex wife how those things will make bad things happen to good people.

Yeah these guys accumulate injuries then need drugs and you factor in most of them have trainers with access to every substance on the planet they can become junkies pretty fast...

Family members said Edwin Valero was on all sorts of stuff when he killed his wife

[New England]

Didn't he have a pain killer addiction? If that story is true I'm assuming he hit a house that had a stash. Oxys and morphine will make people do crazy, out of character, ****. Still unacceptable.

this is what i was thinking. drugs are what's more likely to make you do stuff like this, not a few wars at 34 years old.


we are like family, you and i. a black / jamaican uncle and his white nephew. good looking dudes both. fast runners and sh#t. you know.

[2fast2strong]

he's only 34, and has a fight scheduled. more serious stages of dimentia pugilistica take several years after retirement to set in.

he's been in wars, sure, but so have a lot of fighters. they don't all go out and start breaking into people's houses.

That's true but dementia effects everyone differently, and I don't think his age would really factor in as much as the damage taken and how it effects him as an individual.

Of course I am no doctor and I am not walking in Mikes shoes but I for one think that the damage he has taken has impacted his mental capability and his ability for reason.