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Patlal
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Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included)
#19025119 - 10/24/13 11:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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So what do you guys think of boxing in general?
I always thought of it as a stupid sport. I think its practically irrelevant now since MMA gained popularity. But then again, its still collect millions in profit.
26 years old, died on the ring.
Fucked up.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025131 - 10/24/13 11:36 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've actually heard boxing is more dangerous now that boxing gloves are used, since it can still rattle your brain, and allows you to hit the other person harder without injuring your hand.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal] 1
#19025134 - 10/24/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Boxing is probably the most pure sport there is, aside form the judging nowadays.
Lots of people die playing hockey and football too.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025136 - 10/24/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh well.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025144 - 10/24/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I mean your job is to hit the skull with your padded fist as hard as you can as many times as you can. Shit happens. I'm sure they are comfortable with the risks.
Personally UFC is better and also even less dangerous because of the submissions and shit. I just like it more. Boxing has no stars besides Pac and Mayweather and they wont fight each other, it's corrupt as fuck, too many weight classes and bullshit no one cares about. But hey I'm sure humans have been hitting each other in the head since the beginning and will continue to forever, it's just what we do.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal] 1
#19025158 - 10/24/13 11:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn that sucks.
Guy who won seems pretty obviously worried and not interested at all in trotting around with his hands held in the air at the end.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025161 - 10/24/13 11:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Not a sport I watch, I stick with MMA for that. I do remember watching Tyson fight back in the day on HBO when he was taking names. Probably the last fights I ever watched with some exceptions.
Head injuries happen, it sucks.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: gzuf] 1
#19025172 - 10/24/13 11:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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No stars? ha. That's just because you don't watch.
I don't watch MMA, and I couldn't name one competitor, either.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Khii Khwaay]
#19025210 - 10/24/13 11:50 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I put it up there with gambling
looks fun/challenging but in poor taste
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Khii Khwaay]
#19025250 - 10/24/13 11:57 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Khii Khwaay said: No stars? ha. That's just because you don't watch.
I don't watch MMA, and I couldn't name one competitor, either.
I mean Pac and Mayweather and besides that who? MMA has tons of big name fighters, Silva Griffin GSP Cotoure, boxing has two. I mean I guess it's because I don't watch but I don't watch because it isn't interesting, there isn't any Tysons or anything like that and the big fight (Mayweather v Pacquiao) wont happen because of money bullshit. I guess a lot of other shit has abandoned boxing for MMA too, like the networks and ESPN, that doesn't help with exposure. But still it happens for a reason.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: gzuf] 1
#19025297 - 10/24/13 12:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Actually, I've been noticing that televised boxing has been on the rise. HBO has big fights on every weekend this fall. My feeling is that it probably has something to do with them having more and more hispanic subscribers.
Just because the "best fighters" (floyd and manny) don't fight one another, doesn't mean that interesting matchups don't happen often.
I challenge you to watch the Ruslan Provodnikov v Mike Alvarado fight that happened two weeks ago and tell me that it wasn't interesting.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: gzuf] 1
#19025343 - 10/24/13 12:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This public execution brought to you by Tecate and Office Depot.
I don't watch sports very often enough to get into any of them.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Khii Khwaay]
#19025350 - 10/24/13 12:17 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Interesting, I'll have to check out that fight would you agree it's been a down time for boxing the last few years? but yeah boxing will never go anywhere it's too fundamental... hit the other guy in the head in this ring go *ding*
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025401 - 10/24/13 12:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Patlal said: So what do you guys think of boxing in general?
I wish I had some boxing skills to defend myself. Getting boxed in the head leads to the expression of some brain damage protein and its been shown that boxers, rugby players etc suffer dementia and neurodegeneration from taking hits to the head.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025428 - 10/24/13 12:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I like boxing, I used to box when I was younger it was tons of fun. It takes alot of strategy and skill.
It's not stupid. Boxers take a risk, they know that. Way more motherfuckers die driving down the road to mcdick's to get a dick burger that is going to clog up their body with fat and kill them anyway.
It's just a matter of what risks are worth it/fun.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: gzuf]
#19025435 - 10/24/13 12:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I agree that the past for15 years or so, TV hasn't been very good to boxing, but for the last three or four, it seems to be getting a lot better. Again, I think it has something to do with networks responding to the desires of the growing hispanic population in the usa.
Lately certain promoters have been digging up some really talented Russian fighters, and a few of them are certainly gaining "star" status, at least within the boxing community. Gennady Golovkin, Sergy Kovalev, Provodnikov... I'm sure these names mean nothing to you, but most boxing fans sill know the names right away.
As far as non- russian stars go, Sergio Martinez, Nonito Donaire, Bernard Hopkins, the list goes on and on...
Again, it just depends if you're watching or not. If you asked me, I would tell you that baseball has no stars, haha
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Khii Khwaay]
#19025685 - 10/24/13 01:27 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Head trauma is the new thing in combat/collision sports.
Kinda interesting that its just now coming to light, when it seems like its such an easy problem to get a handle on and characterize. It seems like there are all sorts of governing/sanctioning bodies. It should be a straightforward process to track these athletes and see wtf happens to them as they age.
Unfortunately, nobody seems to be holding anyone accountable.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: badchad]
#19025851 - 10/24/13 01:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Boxers should wear helmets lol.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: Patlal]
#19025893 - 10/24/13 02:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Patlal said: Boxers should wear helmets lol.
Ha! only amateurs do. But really though, I'm not sure we have a good idea of how likely all these different "brain traumas" are to occur from different sports.
Lately we hear all sorts of sob stories about NFL players committing suicide, going nuts, etc. But people do that all the time, is it really more likely to happen after an NFL career? Maybe, but how likely?
Is MMA more "dangerous" then boxing? Maybe, maybe not. The shame in all of this is that it would be pretty easy to start answering these questions IMO.
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Re: Boxer dies after suffering brain injury from a KO (video included) [Re: badchad]
#19025912 - 10/24/13 02:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There has been a wave of hockey fighters that have killed themselves lately due to chronic depression and trauma causedd by concussion. Some of them said they only felt safe off the ice because as soon that there's a game their job is to fight.
Sports pshychologists are finiding a bunch of new things everyday
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