Early detection of CTE in living patients - ramifications on boxing?

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...iagnosed during,with confidence in the living.

Nothing concrete yet but headed that way, it sounds. If they can eventually develop a way to diagnose through imaging (be it MRI or something else) in the non-decedent population - think what a game changer that could be. It could open the door to commissions, instead of handed out suspensions of arbitrary length when somebody gets knocked out, mandating a neuro test with some threshold of "brain health" required to be met before a fighter can be licensed again. Or just outright saying "that's a wrap, sorry champ, time for you to get out while you can still open a jar of peanut butter without assistance or solve a Sudoku..."

The days of retired pugs going "punchy" in old age could become more preventable, if not a thing of the past. There would be no excuse for pugilistia dementia to be a byproduct of a career between the ropes, anymore, if there was a proper amount of regulatory action bringing up the vanguard behind the medical science.

It would obviously benefit other sports, as well (most notably the NFL) but this is of interest to me with fighters in particular. We already have random drug testing - why not random scans to make sure you aren't stepping in the ring with (or en route to having) a skull full of jelly?