Pugilistic dementia really that common among boxers?

Then explain why everyone who has ever driven a car or ridden in one has either died, been injured, or is expected to die? :-( Double H, supporting the Zionist media agenda, once again.

 

Yeah.. I imagine those who've had 30+ fights hardly ever don't have dementia to some degree. Take the great HW's from the 60/70 - who besides Foreman you can understand without problems when they speak?

 

Expected to do die ?

 

I think it's probably higher than that by a good bit. There are so many fighters that you never see or hear from again after they retire, so you don't really know how their career affected them. You don't see these guys doing commentary for networks. Every once in a while you will see them in an interview and wonder what kind of life they will live in that condition.

I saw an interview with Meldrick Taylor a while back and it really needed subtitles for him to be understood. There's probably just about as many Meldrick Taylor's out there as there are guys that walked away relatively unscathed like Sugar Ray Leonard.

Who knows for sure how many older fighters had dementia because of their extensive amounts of fights. Boxers today don't fight as often or as many fights as the old timers did, especially in title fights that once lasted 15 rounds.

 

The difference is the cumulative damage.

Driving your car 1000 times likely leaves you without major damages, unless you're involved in an accident. Taking 1000 power punches to the head can be very damaging to your brain.

 

It only minimizes the risk of cuts.

That's it.

 

Earnie Shavers, Ron Lyle, Henry Cooper, Big George, Tex Cobb, Larry Holmes are all/were fine.

The only Brain damaged fighters from that are are/were Joe Frazier, Ali(Parkinson) and Ken Norton who has suffered more brain damage in his car accident then in the ring.

 

Jerry Quarry had serious brain damage.

Jimmy Young suffered from brain damage too.

 

Fair enough, good post. Wonder how it would be if you took all HW's with over 30 fights from 60/70 though. I'm guessing at least half of them's speech would be slurred. Just a guess though, can be wrong,

 

Roger Mayweather, Floyd Snr, Rocky Balboa = :!::tired



Jus sayin:hat

 

But I think it isn't as bad as it was some years ago. Fighters have less fights, do more S&C instead of sparring (Toney is an exception but Martinez for example doesn't spar much) and are in general more careful

 

I'm sure the percentage is hugely higher, at least between PROFESSIONAL boxers.... If not dementia or parkinson, they all talks worst, and have memory problems; take Tyson for example, for a non-english natural languaged, it is almost impossible to understand the f**k he says in his recents interviews

 

George chuvalo, maybe it has something to do with the first name george, georgie benton had a lot of fights and you could understand him fine.

 

Chuvalo is class.

All the respect in the world for that guy.

 

That's the part you had a problem with? :twisted: