PSYCHOPATHY IN BOXING: Psychopathic characters in boxing.

Whilst boxing, obviously, has it's share of psychopaths and other problem people, it is worth pointing out that personality disorders come on a spectrum or scale, from minor to severe.

Many people can show traits of these disorders in certain, often high pressure, situations without necessarily being the complete messed up package.

It is too easy to label boxers and people generally as psychopaths based on common perceptions or personal opinion.

Such conditions are a medical issue that really require a medical diagnosis.

Full on, complete psychopaths are in fact quite rare.

 

I think most ambitious competitive people have psychopathic tendencies.

To be in a sport where you get paid more for hurting the other person and even more for knocking him out, that certainly highlights psychopathic tendencies.

Same with other sports though. If there's a winner and a loser, the more successful people probably share psychopathic tendencies.

The opening further into none sporting careers, a business man who is on sacking someone to reduce their outgoings.

A lot of people have tendencies.

To be a full blown psycho you need to have a complete lack of empathy though, not just for your opponent but for anyone , so family etc.

A true psycho isn't capable of love.

I think there's a lot of similarities between psychos and high functioning autistic people as well due to the social conflict. One doesn't understand, one doesn't care.

That's the pure sense of the word psycho. If you mean like crazy as in genuinely nasty people, there's far fewer around.

 

Especially considering the murder of Max Kellerman's brother
years later.

 

No he wasnt

 

Tony Ayala Jr. was clearly a psychopath.

 

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There is a difference between psychopathy and sociopathy. Psychopaths are essentially hyper aggressive and violent people. That is Kovalev. Sociopaths have no emotional remorse. That is not Kovalev as he was deeply affected by the Simakov death.

 

Boxing in its most raw state is kill or be killed, so inside that squared circle care and consideration for your opponents health is not at forefront of your mind.

Who on this forum in a bout has seen a clear opening for a clean shot, that will ko an opponent during a hard fight and then thought no i shall not throw it, as he is tired, possibly dehydrated, has taken lot of headshots and this final punch could cause him severe brain damage?. No one i would guess, but you know it will cause neuro damage.

Post fight braggadocio, jive talk, aggressive non empathic talk when your opponent is hospitalized is bad to hear, but such talk makes money, gets you noticed, Tyson made a bundle of dollars with his verbal behaviour in the losing twilight of his career.

Boxers are out there with their attitudes, expressing their aggression etc, the certain citizens you pass in street in any big city, who have no outward psychopathic signs but internally have the latent extremes of violence able to be triggered in a instant, those are the true psychopaths, walk down a side alley, carryout their violence, and emerge at other end of alley without any outward sign of the violence they have enacted.

 

x3 These are hard guys in a hard business and many of them from a hard past. Doesn't make em' psycho. There are deranged/broken people in any profession. One might even argue that in a business where delusions of grandeur regarding ones abilities are so harshly punished, your average boxer would likely be more grounded than your average social worker or barista or DMV clerk, etc.