Funny Story About Wilfred Benitez

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These stories remind me of

 

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Stil, samtaims e sniz mayt eskeip end srow e grin pis on d flor
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oh , & wail I du yuz e 4k , naif & spoons , siting next 2 may mam or her hubby wail dei it iz not e gr8 dil of plejer . Spesheli wen dei gow over e chicken's bowns or fish, bat not onli den.

 

wilfred had the mind off a subnormal child, despite his boxing gifts understand now?

 

No, I understood where you were trying to go just fine. What I couldn't understand was how you drew the line between subpar mental acuity and pugilistic dementia. The two are completely unrelated.

 

Of course they are related.
Dementia entails the loss or degrading of one's mental acuity.

As it might relate to Benitez and pugilistic dementia: he might have already been damaged very early on, causing this behaviour. AND/OR he may have just been that way, ie. subpar mental acuity - which would have given him a "head-start" towards dementia.

 

The two in this case can't be related; from everything I've read about him, Wilfred was riding the short bus long before he started showing any signs of trouble as a result of his boxing career. Punch-drunkenness doesn't make you stupid. He had that going for him already.

 

You might be right here but he started boxing when he was very young. I'm no neurologist, but the possibility that getting hit caused all his problems seems reasonable, or that some unrelated mental deficiency accelerated some later process of damage. It seems possible. I can't rule out the link anyway.

Thinking about it, the ethics of the whole thing is kind of troubling.

 

Don't know if it true but that is a dirty group of people being from the Island got nothing to do with it.

 

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Cus was full of **** saying that about PRs, imo.

 

Tough to say, I suppose. There are plenty of dumb people who aren't brain damaged, though, and plenty of really savvy, bright people that are stricken down. My message to the poster who initially brought it up was that drawing any link whatsoever to how smart a guy is to any trauma-related condition is really, really tenuous at best. There's just nothing there to support that.


As an aside, my wife is half Puerto Rican. I know that side of her family rather well, and the idea of them doing something like that is unimaginable.

 

I think you are right the whole story sounds crazy.