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Not a cause but a major risk factor. Yes it is idiopathic but heavy head trauma over 20 years doesn't do your brain any favours.
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I honestly think we'd see more fighters with parkinsons than Ali if boxing was the cause of it.
Other boxers have taken way more punishment than him, and they've ended up with other conditions, but not parkinsons.Comment
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That's contrary to the statements of Dr Stanley Fahn, the head physician that conducted the tests at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre.
l'd also question why there's no direct quote plus the article that this is gleamed from also went on to state: "Ali once calculated he had taken 29,000 punches to the head. And there’s no research on what so many blows might cause."
An outrageously ignorant statement.Comment
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It was Fraser... The gods punished Ali for his arrogance, for humiliating a good man.Comment
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shoulda retired after the foreman fight.Comment
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well everyone pretty much agrees that war was unnecessary..all the hate he received turned to approval in a few years..same thing with this Iraq war, we now know there was never a threat, all the soldiers that died..died for no reason. .nobody is fighting for "our freedom", they're pawns used to **** these countries of natural resources.Comment
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If by "everyone" you mean a few leftist journalists and teenagers/college kids. People devoid of expertise whose opinions don't really matter and hold kooky backwards views about life in general but thrive in echo chambers until their opinions seem like fact to the other inmates
Vietnam was a critical theater against the expansion of Soviet/Chinese control. Like with all modern wars, the geopolitical situation wasn't simple enough for the media to translate to average ******s -- so they dumbed down the reasoning for the public, said we're going in to give them freedom and hamburgers.
Of course years later they start to "question" that dumbed-down version when it no longer mattered, but it doesn't mean the war was unnecessary. Militant communism was ultimately bled dry by redundant defense spending and a world war averted because the US consistently made satellite nation takeovers as difficult as possible. If it had spread through Asia for free, unopposed, even an average ****** can start to see the implications in regards to cold war escalation.
Nor does any of that make Ali a hero. He dodged just like countless actors, athletes, hippies, rich kids, while other men did their duty. He was an attention-junkie and an entertainer above all else. One week, a black supremacist, the next week, calling former close friends ugly black gorillas in a room of laughing white men for an easy dollar. Not much different from Don King.Last edited by Fr3$h; 06-07-2016, 11:30 AM.Comment
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CTE, punch drunkenness, whatever you want to call it, and parkinson's are very different things. as far as i know, nobody has been able to make the association between the damage ali took and parkinson's. i don't think there has ever been a link demonstrated between any boxer and parkinson's disease. again, i might be missing something.
CTE can only be diagnosed with a biopsy of the brain after death. it's caused by repeated, subconcussyve head trauma [taking jabs, sparring, heading a soccer ball, a move where D linemen used to slap the heads of O linemen,] and also big time, catastrophic head trauma [hard punches at HW, knockouts, measurable concussions, etc.]
you can get parkinson's without head trauma. CTE is caused by head trauma. the NFL is fighting tooth and nail to keep their sport alive. my guess is that football will be a niche sport in 50 years. once great athletes are going to start to lose their minds in their 40's and 50's, and once these cases become epidemic people are goign to stop letting their kids play football. it will go the wya of boxing, where kids will only play football if they've got little else, and are pushed towards it.Comment
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I said this a couple of times, IMO he did not have Parkinson disease from boxing, but on the other hand I think that boxing fastened the progression of the disease itself.
If he was not a boxer IMO he still would have had the disease but later on in his life.
Can someone mentioned other fighters that have / had Parkinson disease appart from Roach and Ali?Comment
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