Compared to other injuries that can occur in a boxing ring, how debilitating is a torn labrum? Obviously fighters encounter injuries during training camps and during fights which they push on through with e.g. busted ribs, fractured/broken hands, torn biceps, perforated eardrums etc etc but it got me thinking about Loma's labrum injury. Because in his fight against Linares I personally wouldn't have been able to tell that he was injured just based off the eye test, but obviously it was serious enough to require surgery. So for anyhow who has knowledge on, or has experienced a torn labrum what kind of difficulty does it pose in ring and is it as inconvenient compared to other injuries that can be picked up in the ring?
I suspect I tore my rotator cuff about a year ago and its as annoying as F. Pains after any moderate exercise, pains at night when you want to sleep and in the morning you wake up with pain like a hangover and the stiffest neck ever. It's slowly gotten better by not using it too much and by sleeping on the uninjured shoulder. Would definitely make any serious training problematic.
I've been lucky to dodge the injury bug during my various atheletic endeavors, aside from a badly hyper extended arm from doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so I don't have any first hand knowledge. But based on seeing a number of friends and team mates go through a variety of injuries, I think back/neck injuries are the worst, followed by knee injuries. After that probably comes the torn labrums and the torn rotator cuff type injuries. What I would emphasize is that it all depends on the athlete involved and the severity of the injury. Joshua Clottey bounced back from torn biceps like a champ, while a torn biceps seriously hindered James Toney. Toney arguably never regained his best form at heavyweight after that injury. That same problem also set Buddy McGirt back badly. I do know they say continuing to fight after suffering a muscle tear or trauma to a ligament is the worst thing you can do in terms of having a good long term prognosis. So for Loma to keep fighting with a bum shoulder against Linares and to come back strong against Pedraza means he's luckier than plenty of other guys.
