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All of these were world champions or at least made major purse money. What went wrong?

Mike Hercules Weaver aerobics instructor Bodies in Motion Pasadena, CA
Julian Hawk Jackson security guard Sunset station Las Vegas
Danny Little Red Lopez construction crew worker Orange County, CA
Meldrick Taylor fitness instructor Philadelphia, PA
Carl Truth Williams security guard somewhere upstate NY
Chango Carmona parking lot attendant near Olympic Auditorium LA, CA
Lightning Lonnie Bradley security guard Radio City Music Hall NY
Iran Blade Barkley used car salesman NY
 
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Poor cash management AKA-Living like a rock star until they don't have a dime to their name.
 

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Meldrick Taylor is still fighting despite obvious brain damage. They need to do a Joe Mesi on him before he loses more than his fortune.
 

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personally i think boxers are some of the most uneducated (school wise). i have known several that do not know how to find a docter, where to get medecine, how to buy shoes, shop at a market, write checks etc. they start off as kids only boxing when they get out they no none of lifes skills everything to that point has been done for them.
 

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Is there really a movement going to require pro boxers to wear headgear because of the Meldrick Taylor's and Ali's that are occuring often?
 

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Hilo, those fighters you use as examples didn't end up too bad. They can't fight forever and they have jobs. I don't know how well they function but some fighters end up in awfull situations.i.e. brain damage, prison, addictions, homeless, dead, etc.

Very, very few fighters make serious money and as you know some/most get ripped off or just blow it. Others are fortunate to have good handlers and a little sense. A good example of a fighter with his head on straight is Bernard Hopkins.....Scotty
 

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go2guy said:
Is there really a movement going to require pro boxers to wear headgear because of the Meldrick Taylor's and Ali's that are occuring often?

I can't see that happening but I can see stricter oversight on the medical side of the sport, espically with brain damage or even possible damage.....Scotty
 

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There is pro and con about headgear but most medical opinions I hear are that headgear hold the head in place but the brain will actually move around more and when the headgear gets heavy with sweat it actually will cause more long term damage to the brain when you get hit.


If they ever do require headgear for pro boxing the game is dead.
 

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go2guy said:
Is there really a movement going to require pro boxers to wear headgear because of the Meldrick Taylor's and Ali's that are occuring often?

If you are referring to Mohammed Ali, his disease has nothing to do with boxing and several non boxers suffer with this ailment in their late stages of life..

(kinda like saying basketball players get HIV just because Magic got it)
 

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If you are referring to Mohammed Ali, his disease has nothing to do with boxing and several non boxers suffer with this ailment in their late stages of life..

(kinda like saying basketball players get HIV just because Magic got it)

I thought Ali's ailment was a combination of both but if you want to split hairs fine then! :lolBIG: Replace Ali's name with Riddick Bowe, you see my point :103631605
 

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I thought Ali's ailment was a combination of both but if you want to split hairs fine then! :lolBIG: Replace Ali's name with Riddick Bowe, you see my point :103631605

Its not splitting hairs. Its a simple matter of fact. Parkinsons disease is not caused by being punched in the head period....Boxing has nothing to do with the disease. They are not related one does not cause the other in any way shape or form so you see, there are no hairs to split here! just setting the records straight not starting an argument...(Most people think his condition was caused by boxing which isnt true)
 

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Its not splitting hairs. Its a simple matter of fact. Parkinsons disease is not caused by being punched in the head period....Boxing has nothing to do with the disease. They are not related one does not cause the other in any way shape or form so you see, there are no hairs to split here! just setting the records straight not starting an argument...(Most people think his condition was caused by boxing which isnt true)

I didn't say boxing had anything to do with Parkinson's. I never examined Ali nor am I a doctor so I'm going off I what I heard. Again his name can be substituted with many boxers that I watched growing up.
 

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I was always a big boxing fan, but there is no doubt that boxing does irreversible brain damage to boxers just like NFL players receive irreversible damage to their joints. Not all athletes are affected equally.

But in boxing, all you have to do is listen to Holyfield, Ali, Jerry Quarry, Riddick Bowe, Tommy Hearns, Meldrick Taylor and a host of others and compare tapes from 10 to 20 years ago and to how they sound now and you will hear a serious speech impairment. Find some tapes of how you sounded 10 to 20 years ago and you won't hear that kind of deterioration.

It's a medical fact, that your brain floats in a viscous liquid and every time your head absorbs a blow, the brain is is pushed against the skull, damaging and destroying brain cells. You have billions of brain cells so for most people, on the rare occasion that this occurs, you will not suffer significant damage unless the blow is forceful and traumatic.

On the other hand, boxers who absorb trauma on a steady basis have a higher likelihood of sustaining permanent irreversible damage.

This doesn't hold true of every case - after all, everybody knows somebody who defies the law of averages and lives until their 80s or 90s despite the fact that they are an alcoholic or overweight or smoke (for example), but for the majority, the damage done by repeated blows will catch up.

Think about it, over the last two weeks ESPN has done two feature stories about boxers who died in the ring. How many grocery clerks have you heard about dying bagging groceries? And there's a helluva lot more grocery clerks than there are boxers.
 

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Buster Douglass story was another that amazed me...the guy didn't save anything from what I recall...
 

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I get a lump in my throat every time I see Terry Norris and have to talk to him, because it is just sad the way he sounds now.
 

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