Damage by Tris Dixon should be read by anyone who follows boxing. Actually by anyone, it's an excellent book. Using terms like punch drunk is really unpleasant and degrading. There's a horribly long list of fighters affected and will continue to be. There's a really strong argument for boxing being banned. ‘Boxing is a mess’: the darkness and damage of brain trauma in the ring | Boxing | The Guardian
Hiya pug. He has a wife who clearly adores him and he trains fighters in a gym at his home, I think. The video I saw, he seemed genuinely happy. His crazy DQ losses to Quintana aside, he was right up there with the best fighters of the 90s for some time and was super exciting. Probably to his detriment although I think I read that he sparred a lot with brother Orlin and other older, bigger lads when he was a kid which might be behind some of the damage he has suffered. His case mirrors that of Wilfred Benitez to that extent. Mind you. I talk of 'damage' and 'suffering'. He looks happy so who am I to say that? Hope you're well, old chap. I've been enjoying your stuff lately. When you're not whipping out your ginormous double, even treble, entendres (and schlong may they continue ), you're quite the intellectual, aren't you?
I purchased this book immediately and I am reading it currently. It is fantastic. Thank you for the recommendation.
Wilfred Benitez, Pritchard Colon annd Bobby Chacon come to mind. And I just read about Hearns, Holyfield, Barkely and Norris here. The counter to those cases of course are guys like George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Oscar de la Hoya, Sugar Ray Leonard, Jake La Motta and Roberto Duran. Hagler and La Motta seemed to be fine until they passed, and the rest are seemingly fine. Naseem Hamed and Juan La Porte seem to be doing fine too. its just sad that so many get messed and others dont. i wonder what is the formula behind that. Oh, about Norris and about Arturo Gatti too, i always suspected they were going to end up in bad brain shape.
It wont be banned nor should it, itś a choice and people should be free to participate unless a medical exam shows otherwise.
A large percentage of former boxers sustained severe brain damage during their careers. Citing exceptions doesn't change this fact. There are other sports in which participants sustain hard blows to the head, including soccer and American football, also resulting in severe brain damage. - Chuck Johnston
To be fair to Boxing, a lot of chosen occupations and careers come at a price later in life. We all need to eat and live somehow. There are always tradeoffs. Even Factory workers, and many others, pay dearly sometimes.
Steady on there Eddie, old chum. Was that a complisult? Who says (besides your good self, of course) that double entendres aren’t intellectual? Even old Geoffrey Chaucer was quite fond of the Double Es - that’s my high brow insertion for today, just for you Ed.
Although he seemed to be a happy guy to the very end, every time I saw Bobby Chacon it made me sad to hear him talk.
The one that amazes me with how little damage he’s seemingly incurred is Foreman. He had two long careers, 80+ fights, was not any kind of defensive master (in fact he got hit relatively easily if he wasn’t knocking you the hell out) yet talks to this day as clear as he did (and a whole lot more eloquently) as a kid who just won gold in 1968.
Not really a surprise for me. I saw him in some mini documentary on CTE in sports about twelve years ago.