Boxers that got their brain damaged quite badly

I've posted about a guy I once knew pretty well, Tony Licata, back in the mid 60's that boxed amateur when I was getting into it. He eventually turned pro at age 17 and had about 70 pro fights before he finally retired. He was good enough to get a title shot with Carlos Monzon but lost badly to him and that was the beginning of the end of his career.

Fast forward to the early 90's and I ran into him at a local theater and tried to strike up a conversation with him. He remembered me but for the life of me I was hard pressed to understand a thing he was saying. His speech was so slurred and it seemed his thought pattern was so jumbled he wasn't firing on all cylinders.

It really saddened me to see this man have these problems in his 40's. He died a few years back and I heard he was suffering badly from the effects of the accumulation of blows over the years. Sad ending to a good man's life.

 

David Haye this fall and RJJ

 

You're right, Michael J. Fox didn't box and has Parkinson's. But it is also known that taking the many blows to the head that fighters take often leads to many kinds of neurological damage later in life.

The list of fighters that suffer from one sort of brain damage or nerve damage is staggering. The sad thing is the list of names already cited doesn't really take into account the guys that fought back in the early to mid 1900's that routinely had many more fights than today's fighters.

 

the 2 bigest names in the sport--SRR and Ali

 

atschatschatschatsch

 

antillon, i dont think he recovered from that valero shot in sparring. pwilly, is bad.

 

Joe Fraizer, Tommy Hearns, Hector Camacho

 

Roy is a work in progress unfortunately.

 

Dennis Moyer

 

Don't mean to sound like an *******, but when i look at some of pacquiao's older fights i fear for his health too later in life.

 

Personally, I think Pac is in this for maybe 2-3 more fights and retires. His being an elected official will probably make more demands on his time and if he is wise with his money, he has enough to last a lifetime. I don't see where he is anything close to a Mayweather with tossing around tens of thousands of dollars like it will last forever or like Holyfield and has a mansion that costs an average man's yearly salary just to air condition. The money is probably the main reason many boxers stay in the ring too long.

I believe he's more grounded than that and I would hope those around him are also looking out for his best interest and health. I mean, Freddie Roach is his trainer and Pac surely sees what effect Freddie's condition has on his overall health.

 

what then, is it c****?

 

James Toney, Riddick Bowe, Thomas Hearns, Meldrick Taylor, Chavez Sr., Terry Norris...all of these fighters sound like they have marbles and oatmeal in their mouths when they speak. Roy Jones and Jermain Taylor are definitely headed down that road.

 

Jimmy Young was a tragic mess before he died.

 

Jerry 'n Mike Quarry

Bobby Chacon