Knocking Out Brain Trauma
I have a lot of personal experience from fighting. I used to be a professional MMA fighter and boxer, I had many bouts. I’m here to tell you that a fighter’s health should be regulated especially their mental capacity. I am speaking from experience from someone who fought all the time and would spar almost every day. For those of you that don’t know what to spar means it is where you pretty much have a gym fight and practice your skills. If you get too many concussions as I did you will be suspended for a year. This will hurt you as a fighter one for not being able to compete; and two hurts your ability to take a punch for some time.
These you will recover from but what about the unseen effects that don’t arise …show more content…
Many symptoms can occur from this such as Parkinson’s syndrome, dementia, brain damage, and many others according to (“Executive Brain Dysfunction in Professional Boxers, National Center for Biotechnology information”). Studies with ERP’s have shown that boxers have delayed brain function and activity compared to non- fighters. Two examples of individuals that did not look in to monitoring their health are Gary Goodridge and Muhammad Ali. Gary who fought pro kickboxing and MMA for nearly 2 decades has severely bad dementia now. His last good fight was in 2003 but he continued to compete until 2010 for whatever reason most likely for the money. He suffered numerous knockouts resulting in his pugilistic dementia now. It has gotten so severe his personality has changed, and has turned into a recluse so says his friends. It has gotten to the point where he will call his friends and talk then turn around and call back ten minutes later because his short-term memory is no more. (Fowlkes, Ben. “The Fighter Who Stayed Too Long.”). Another example is of course Muhammad Ali he had a lustrous boxing career but competed for far too long. He should have retired in 1975 after Thrilla in Manila, against Joe Frazier. Where after the fight he was peeing blood for a week from all the body shots he received. After almost collapsing from the match and squeaking out victory the only person that told him to hang it up was his doctor. Everyone else of course where riding his coat tails and telling him to keep going. Which he did well into the 1980’s, slowly you could see the signs of brain damage where he wasn’t as articulate as before in interviews. Then the shakes came and he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Syndrome. Which is like Parkinson’s disease just not as severe. However, there is still gradual deuteriation of certain nerve centers inside the brain. These nerves control the movements of the body;
I have a lot of personal experience from fighting. I used to be a professional MMA fighter and boxer, I had many bouts. I’m here to tell you that a fighter’s health should be regulated especially their mental capacity. I am speaking from experience from someone who fought all the time and would spar almost every day. For those of you that don’t know what to spar means it is where you pretty much have a gym fight and practice your skills. If you get too many concussions as I did you will be suspended for a year. This will hurt you as a fighter one for not being able to compete; and two hurts your ability to take a punch for some time.
These you will recover from but what about the unseen effects that don’t arise …show more content…
Many symptoms can occur from this such as Parkinson’s syndrome, dementia, brain damage, and many others according to (“Executive Brain Dysfunction in Professional Boxers, National Center for Biotechnology information”). Studies with ERP’s have shown that boxers have delayed brain function and activity compared to non- fighters. Two examples of individuals that did not look in to monitoring their health are Gary Goodridge and Muhammad Ali. Gary who fought pro kickboxing and MMA for nearly 2 decades has severely bad dementia now. His last good fight was in 2003 but he continued to compete until 2010 for whatever reason most likely for the money. He suffered numerous knockouts resulting in his pugilistic dementia now. It has gotten so severe his personality has changed, and has turned into a recluse so says his friends. It has gotten to the point where he will call his friends and talk then turn around and call back ten minutes later because his short-term memory is no more. (Fowlkes, Ben. “The Fighter Who Stayed Too Long.”). Another example is of course Muhammad Ali he had a lustrous boxing career but competed for far too long. He should have retired in 1975 after Thrilla in Manila, against Joe Frazier. Where after the fight he was peeing blood for a week from all the body shots he received. After almost collapsing from the match and squeaking out victory the only person that told him to hang it up was his doctor. Everyone else of course where riding his coat tails and telling him to keep going. Which he did well into the 1980’s, slowly you could see the signs of brain damage where he wasn’t as articulate as before in interviews. Then the shakes came and he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Syndrome. Which is like Parkinson’s disease just not as severe. However, there is still gradual deuteriation of certain nerve centers inside the brain. These nerves control the movements of the body;