I would like to know the same statistics for American Footballers, surely there must be some damage from the hits they take.
You know what though, some of you are saying things like "So and so has taken a lot of punishment, but he seems fine." Well first of all, a lot of guys are going to SEEM fine, but they really aren't. And second, some of those guys DON'T seem fine, some of you just haven't noticed it. Sugar Shane Mosley for example, in the past year or so has start to sound a bit punchy if you listen very closely to his speech... its taking him more time to form words and sentences and he makes more mistakes. Its very subtle, but its there. As far as older guys like George Foreman or Roberto Duran, could you really tell anyway? Duran speaks spanish, and not that many of us here understand what he's saying, and Foreman basically reinvented his entire persona, including the way he speaks in public in the 1980s. Not every bit of brain damage is as obvious as Riddick Bowe or Meldrick Taylor. Don't think that just because you don't notice them slurring their words that there isnt some change in them. And even if their brains don't take a beating, think about guys like Floyd Mayweather, they make other sacrifices. He spends so much time in the gym, has broken his hands so many times.. his body will never be 100% again. I'm only 21 and my body is already not doing what it could do when I was 17 or 18 (though two major car accidents haven't really helped much). If two car wrecks can turn me from a decent amateur boxer into a guy that walks around a university with a CANE.... just imagine what 20 years of amateur and pro boxing can do to someone (like Floyd Mayweather).
Not every fighter. There are always gonna be some lucky *******s that never get any problem, but I believe most fighters get some sort of brain damage.
it's concussions. getting knocked out is pretty common. there is a chance that everyone is gonna get koed once in there lives what ever the circumstance. but some guys are getting smacked around 6 MAJOR concussions in very little time. getting mulitble light concussions are what really set it off i feel. terry norris was prolly the worst example of this getting hurt alot of times and knocked out just as much had to retire at aroudn 30 years of age due to punch drunkness.
There's varying degrees of suspensions in amateur boxing. In the amateurs, a stoppage is an RSC (Referee Stops Contest). If it's stopped due to head blows/head injury it's an RSCH. If the stoppage is because the boxer has received 3 standing 8 counts in a round, or 4 in a bout, he'll typically receive a 30 day suspension from the ringside physician after the bout. This means no sparring, physical contact, or competing in that 30 day period. His passbook will be typically held by the Chief of Officials so that he can't break the suspension and compete. He'll also be required at the 30 day mark to see a physician to be examined and the physician will sign an affidavit, which has to be presented to get the boxer's passbook back. This continues all the way up depending on the stoppage-if the boxer was literall knocked out, how long they were down for (the timekeeper starts a timer to keep track of this at the knock down), the suspensions range from 30 all the way to 180 days.
not true the braincells stay the same but are deformed. there were tests on a few drunkards and alcholiks and they found there brain has just as many briancells as a non drinking person would. it's the damge TO the brain cells which is key.
there is a belif that bareknuckle fights cause less braindamage. becuase boxing gloves softens the blow but have just as much wieght behind the punch. you either get hit by a pillowed baseball bat or a bare wooden mallet? one would knok you out the other would make you abel to take just as many shots with less knock out power