Speculation. Jermain Taylor is going against medical adivce if he fights again?

I just tried to find something new on Jermain a few minutes ago, and there is no "breaking news." I have no idea what he is up to, and I'm not going to speculate.

 

I thought that he was going to compete in the super 6, as planned:?

 

i Dont know if that is specifically the reason why Dibella cut ties


If it make it any clearer, you might be aware of the recent Congressional hearing on concussions in the NFL and the terrible neurological state of former NFL pros who have died in the early 50s. A great deal of research has been done in the past 3 years on the effects of multiple head injuries.

Boxers have already been proven to have a hugely increased risk of dementia, parkinsons, Alzheimers, and other neurodregradatory diseases


I think in light of the fact that Taylor has been stopped and KOed so violently (taking multitudes of power shots and sustained punishment) it can be assumed he has suffered lasting damage and his punch resistance has lessened.

Whether or not he has had been medically cleared I do not know. But I even without medical reason, I can surmise DiBellas reasoning for cutting ties as his promoter

 

concussions are no joke, he's got to seriously reconsider this tournament. He needs a tune-up if he wants to continue

 

Concussions are just one small part of the issue, unfortunately. Unlike football, what boxing does do is diagnose concussions and allow proper healing. Football's just now improving their stance on it, but multipl teens playing that sport die every year here from undiagnosed/mistreated concussions.

The two biggest issues are repetitive head trauma (even sub-concussive levels), and receiving them on a brain that's not done developing, as most boxers and football players do because it's rare that someone enters either sport in their 20's. That's why I tend to think sparring can be a double edged sword- done too hard or too frequently, it can increase the mileage on a fighter significantly because the body can't tell the difference between someone going all out in a sparring match or an actual fight.

That's why I think Bernard Hopkins will be better off than Wilfred Benitez, another defensive prodigy, was as he ages even though he's fighting at an advanced age. Hops didn't get into the sport until his brain was already fully developed. The problem is 99.999% of boxers don't have that kind of natural aptitude to substitute for the missing years of training as a youth. There's always outliers (guys who absorb massive amounts of punishment and are still sharp as a tack as they age, guys who's bodies react terribly to significantly less punishment), but that's what I've noticed as a general rule.