Fighter Daniele Scardina is in a coma.

Boxing2019 · Apr 7, 2023

In any case like Stevenson his career is over. Too risky come back to fight. Two veins of his brain have gone away.

FrankinDallas · Apr 7, 2023

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Exactly this. Human neurology is so little understood even with modern technological advancements in medicine, and honestly - it will always be a little bit unpredictable no matter how sophisticated we get. There's always going to be that chaos factor, it's just part & parcel of being us and having such complex (in terms of both the intricacy of internal circuitry and its widely varied responsiveness to stimuli) little gobs of grey matter powering our psyches.

That's why it annoys me when idiots see a weird looking KO and quickly jump off their couch or flock to forums like this or Twitter and declare "I've never in all my life seen a knockout like that, so that proves it was a DIVE/FIX!"

Like...no, dummy, you've just never happened to have seen a human react that way to being struck in the head before. There are trillions of different ways blunt force cephalic trauma can present. Even someone that's watched as much boxing as I have can not claim to have seen all of the iterations, and most fans haven't seen 1% as much boxing as I have.

I always think of the JMM vs. Likar Ramos debacle, over 90% of the internet boxing community instantly went into a group-think frenzy and convinced themselves it was a "fake, staged" fight when really - Likar Ramos just fell weird. It happens.

Punches that don't seem like they ought to do catastrophic damage sometimes obliterate guys, or at least drop them despite their reputation for strong chins (see the long moronically mislabeled Ali-Liston "phantom punch", that very clearly did land if you watch the slowed down film). Likewise, sometimes you see a fighter eat a bomb that looks as though it ought to keel a horse, but he shakes it off. Life isn't a video game, there's no set parameters and human neuro responses are not cookie-cutter replicable.
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I'm thinking about Bob Saget. Slipped in a hotel bathroom, hit his head on something hard and boom! Dead. Meanwhile boxers get hit thousands of times to the head and some guys have no problems while some guys get dementia.

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Fighter Daniele Scardina is in a coma.

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