Does your face get ruined?

['Sugar' Freddi]

Sometimes I hear that your face gets ruined in boxing. Is it true? I don't think it can really be "ruined". Opinions.

[RightHooker]

It doesn't happen to everyone, just most people.

Here's me before boxing:


and me after about a year, maybe 14 months (training 3-4 days per week)

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[atgatt]

Righthooker, THAT was funny. Good one.

I looked into a lot of studies about boxing damage, with and without gear. The two parts that get the most damage are the eyes and brain. It makes sense that the head was not meant to be smacked around. Still, some other forms of fighting are much worse.

What concerns me is, you really don't know what long term brain damage it is doing. For example, if you get Alzheimer's, would you not have gotten it if you didn't knock your brain around? There is good evidence that shows getting your brain jolted greatly increases your chance of Alzheimer's.

[RightHooker]

Seriously though, my nose got broken boxing and is flattened out a bit. I've had a couple little cuts/scrates that have left scars, nothing bad that needed stitches though. So yeah, your face is going to take some damage, some people get it worse than others. But I don't know what would be considered a 'ruined' face.

[Sox8055]

Good Post. I dont think so, other than the fact about your brain cells and your nose.

[IBox85]

i used to weigh over 200 lbs at one point in my life... but now im 135... feeling and looking better than ever... now ive only been boxing 10 months... ask me again in another 10 months... 10 years... lol

[bbos]

You will get scars, broken noses, and all that transfer of energy through your head will accelerate the aging process of the face. so in short, yes, it will get damaged to a certain degree, it will get ruined eventually given the duration you spent in the ring.

[BennyST]

Hmm, some obviously get it much worse than others.

The worst of mine are a bent nose from it being broken and scarring through and around my eyebrows where the hair doesn't grow back anymore over the scarring.

I also have a weird sort of little bruise thing going on just at the side of my left eye, which happened during a fight and then never went away. Quite strange. It's not noticeable or anything and no one would look at me and notice it and think "WTF?" but it wasn't there before I got the black eye and it's still here fourteen years later. It went down a lot but there is just a little small light purple sort of area next to my eye. It has very slowly disappeared over the years but is still there.

Umm, apart from the nose, eyebrows and that bruise thing though, nothing is different at all and the doctors did a good job of setting the nose back anyway so even that's not particularly noticeable either.

Interestingly, as someone put that picture up there, Mickey Rourke went from the being the Hollywood 80's version of Brad Pitt (seriously) to having a pretty busted up face and then got lots of surgery to fix it and now looks ****ing hideous. He was really **** though and shouldn't have even fought as a pro so he got beat up by a bunch of hack, no names.

It really depends how tough your skin is and the bone structure of your face. If you have high angled cheek bones for example, you are going to have your eyes busted up and swollen a lot and your skin probably split a lot too. Depends.