Which fight caused Ali`s braindamage?!

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Ali`s brain deterioration started in his 30`s say researchers! Regular blows to the head are thought to cause dementia. Analysis of interviews over 13 years show his speech deteriorating. They found his slowed markedly after a bout in 1977 when he was hit with 266 punches according to the Arizona state university. Was it the Earnie Shavers fight when hec was badly rocked at one point?
     
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  2. It's Ovah

    It's Ovah I am very feel me good. Full Member

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    There was no one fight. It was cumulative damage sustained over years.
     
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  3. McGrain

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    Brain damage isn't caused by "a fight" for the most part. Sparring has a greater affect than fighting because these guys were sparring a hundred rounds - and Ali, famously, worked on his weaknesses in sparring.
     
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  4. HerolGee

    HerolGee Loyal Member banned Full Member

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    that said his most damaging fight might be frazier 2.
     
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  5. Rockradar

    Rockradar Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ali didnt have much of a guard. He wore a lot.
     
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  6. Plummer1930

    Plummer1930 New Member Full Member

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    After the Thrilla in Manila neither fighter were the same.Even Ali said he was close to death.
     
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  7. madballster

    madballster Loyal Member Full Member

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    Which cigarette caused the lung cancer?
     
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  8. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Once Ali's speed and legs went you saw how bad his defence was....
     
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  9. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    All of them, Ali was stupid to fight rope a dope tactic, if not for that he probably would still be alive.
     
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  10. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Liston II
     
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  11. rhin0z>

    rhin0z> Boxing Addict Full Member

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    larry holmes did him no favors
     
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  12. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Cumulative
     
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  13. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Lol I can see some guy smoking 80 a day getting told he has lung cancer and blaming it on that dodgy cigarette he had out foreign 30 years ago.
     
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  14. lencoreastside

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    The one where he took hardly any punches?....
     
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  15. rski

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    I guess it's a question of would it have made much difference if he retired earlier, after foreman or even Frazier 3? In that case the last couple of years finished his health. I always wondered if he would have been in better shape retiring earlier or if Parkinson's would always have got him. Seems there is a good case for Parkinson's as I'm sure I read somewhere he noticed himself a few symptoms in 74, maybe it was slurring speech.
     
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