After All These Boxing Deaths, I Just Realized Something

[The D3vil]

Of the 27 in-ring deaths over the past 20 years, only 2 have been heavyweights.

That seems low considering that you'd think that much larger men who have more power and lesser stamina would be more likely to die in the ring.

And out of those 2, both seemed to have some other mitigating factor.

Tim Hague, who died in 2017, had been knocked out a bunch of times in MMA and shouldn't have even been in a boxing ring.

And Brad Rone died of a heart attack.

Why do you think that heavyweights rarely die from in ring injuries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_injuries_sustained_in_boxing

[pittapatta66]

Low IQ thread, do an IQ test and you most likely have a double digit IQ.

How many weight classes are there? How many HWs compared to MWs are there in the world? What is the HW to WW ratio?

Low IQ is low. Work out those factors and then tell us the trend you are seeing.

[Robbie Barrett]

HW's don't usually take sustained punishment, if they get caught clean they usually go down. It's the constant punishment that does the most damage.

[KillaMane26]

HW's don't usually take sustained punishment, if they get caught clean they usually go down. It's the constant punishment that does the most damage.

^^^My first thought and to add to that, HWs arent cutting weight like lower weights too which contribute to deaths

[Citizen Koba]

Low IQ thread, do an IQ test and you most likely have a double digit IQ.

How many weight classes are there? How many HWs compared to MWs are there in the world? What is the HW to WW ratio?

Low IQ is low. Work out those factors and then tell us the trend you are seeing.

I know it ain't a laughing mater, but still..

According to Boxrec there's 1,312 active Heavies in the world out of a total of 18.081 active fighters of all divisions, or about 7.26%. Applied to the 27 deaths recorded in the Wiki page you'd expect that to translate into....1.96 HW deaths (assuming there was a statistically significant sample, which there ain't... really). I think it'd probably be safe to round that up to... umm... 2, whatchu reckon?

Now how about that?

[redmish]

I imagine cutting weight is a massive contributory factor. Obviously HW dont have to make weight and can, within reason, eat and drink what they like.

[Toffee]

I wouldn't have thought this was even a debate. I made a passing comment about it after the Patrick Day tragedy.

Heavies aren't cutting weight and aren't sustaining as many blows.

[Kaspa9t9]

Low IQ thread, do an IQ test and you most likely have a double digit IQ.

How many weight classes are there? How many HWs compared to MWs are there in the world? What is the HW to WW ratio?

Low IQ is low. Work out those factors and then tell us the trend you are seeing.

Bruuuuuhhhh LOL! Had me in stitches - green K

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

Low IQ thread, do an IQ test and you most likely have a double digit IQ.

How many weight classes are there? How many HWs compared to MWs are there in the world? What is the HW to WW ratio?

Low IQ is low. Work out those factors and then tell us the trend you are seeing.

This man statisticizes

[Zaryu]

Robie Barrett and KillaMane26 made great points. I believe those are contributing factors.