Worried about CTE talk ruining boxing? Media likely Overstating dangers

[Stuart_boxer]

I'm not going to get in a big back and forth with you and your premise is ****** (you're going to say"I didn't say it doesn't exist, I only said the media... bla bla bla").

Maybe I would say “I didn’t say it doesn’t exist” because that was obviously my position from the thread title.

If the premise is ****** then you should say that to the best Neuroscientists in the world because that’s what they are saying.

If you can’t see what’s wrong with plastering people with a narrative that they are susceptible to a phantom brain disease that is tenuously linked to a huge range of effects then I’d have to question your sense of common sense.

If you come back I have no idea where those quotes you posted came from as you posted so many links, most of them not from scientists themselves.

[dannnnn]

CTE affects the vast majority of boxers who have a good amount of fights (say, some amateur background and 25+ pro fights), at least in some way or another. Some boxers are lucky and manage to escape relatively unscathed, but those are the exception to the rule.

For example, look at somebody like Michael Hunter. Only 20 fights, won nearly all of them, very nice guy, yet if you watch recent interviews you can clearly see the affect boxing has had and is continuing to have on him. Another easy example is Jarrett Hurd. He's had 24 fights, won all but one and he already sounds punch drunk, slurring his speech. It's sad.

Head trauma is real. Boxing is an extremely dangerous sport and almost nobody leaves it in the same condition they entered it. Floyd Mayweather is rightly considered one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. Now listen to him talk in interviews compared to say, eight years ago. And it's only gonna get worse over time...

[Stuart_boxer]

Floyd Mayweather is rightly considered one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. Now listen to him talk in interviews compared to say, eight years ago. And it's only gonna get worse over time...

I honestly can’t tell the difference.

[Armchairhero]

I honestly can’t tell the difference.

He takes about half an hr to finish a sentence

If football (soccer) players have a link to early Alzheimer’s from heading footballs what damage does 20 + years of sparing and fights do to you, if you honestly don’t see a link your kidding yourself

Your not meant to get repeated blows to the head, it is your choice that you want to tho

[Stuart_boxer]

... Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 30, 1968[1]) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh.[2] He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine.[3] >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennet_Omalu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion_(2015_film)

Concussion is a 2015 American biographical sports drama film directed and written by Peter Landesman, based on the exposé "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, published in 2009 by GQ magazine.[6] Set in 2002, the film stars Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist who fights against the National Football League trying to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players. It also stars Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Albert Brooks.

Washington Post article alleges Doctor Bennet Omalu is a fraud or an incompetent;

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/sports/cte-bennet-omalu/

[MDPopescu]

Washington Post article alleges Doctor Bennet Omalu is a fraud or an incompetent;

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...-bennet-omalu/

why doesn't this surprise me?...

[Stuart_boxer]

why doesn't this surprise me?...

Are you saying it’s part of the conspiracy against Dr Omalu?

To be fair some of the things they accuse him of e.g plagiarism he can only really do to himself.

[MDPopescu]

Are you saying it’s part of the conspiracy against Dr Omalu?

To be fair some of the things they accuse him of e.g plagiarism he can only really do to himself.

... plagiarism is a common place in the academic world... the fact that Omalu plagiarized doesn't change the CTE issue...

[6ixsidesniper]

CTE can only be confirmed post humously unfortunately.

Aaron Hernandez is a football player, when he died at 27 the CTE he suffered was the worst they’ve ever seen. The closet brain theyd studied with that much CTE damage is in a 45 year old.

Now I imagine boxing to be even more taxing on the brain skull.. you can come to your own conclusions.

[6ixsidesniper]

He’s a proven fraud. Do your research.

He claimed to have coined the name CTE, which has been proven to be a lie amongst many other things he spews.