We need to come to terms with brain damage

[superpunch]

These guys chose to get punched in the head for a living. They're going to get brain damage.

Some are going be slurping through straws or trembling in wheelchairs like Muhammad Ali. Many more are going to have substance abuse problems, faulty memories, slurred speech, and be prone to aggression/ domestic abuse/ etc. Many more fighters than that are going to have some minor speech problems and memory problems that they can mostly hide from people and they won't talk about it. I believe that this will also happen to guys that just train casually and never even fight.

It's just going to happen. We can't let do-gooders set in place regulations like "taking a year off every time you get KOd" or making guys wear headgear. That might make a difference in the NFL but these guys get punched in the head every day. It will also ruin careers and for nothing. Half the roster will have a career only 5 fights long.

Brain damage and lots of it is just something that's going to happen when you get punched in the head.

 

[Treeloy]

Every man is responsible for his own destiny. Chan believed this, why cant you?

 

[Ilovepizza]

These guys chose to get punched in the head for a living. They're going to get brain damage.

Some are going be slurping through straws or trembling in wheelchairs like Muhammad Ali. Many more are going to have substance abuse problems, faulty memories, slurred speech, and be prone to aggression/ domestic abuse/ etc. I think that the majority of fighters are going to have some minor speech problems and memory problems that they can mostly hide from people and they won't talk about it. I believe that this will also happen to guys that just train casually and never even fight.

It's just going to happen. We can't let do-gooders set in place regulations like "taking a year off every time you get KOd" or making guys wear headgear. That might make a difference in the NFL but these guys get punched in the head every day. It will also ruin careers and for nothing. Half the roster will have a career only 5 fights long.

Brain damage and lots of it is just something that's going to happen when you get punched in the head.

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[Fraz]

CTE is a lie

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

 

[Headkicktoleg]

Anyone fighting today knows the risks. Let them bang bro

 

[biscuitsbrah]

What

 

[BoD 2.0]

After we come to terms with it, what's the plan?

 

[trident]

 

[nostradumbass]

Come to terms with deez nuts.

 

[BKMMAFAN]

I think it's a threat to the long-term future of the sport. Like the NFL, there will be litigation down the road on the liability for fighters' health as some will inevitably suffer from serious brain ailments later in life. It's a fine line between voluntary assumption of risk and profiting off of your employees sustaining brain damage as part of the job.

 

[Adjutant]

Isn’t the ability to reason one of the first signs/impacts of CTE?
How can we come to terms with it then?.......I like ice cream...what were we talking about?

 

[heatbag]

People will surely join the herd to post on social media how "bad they feel" for the fighters. Before and after that fight fans will watch the fights. Momma don't let your babies grow up to be punching bags.

 

[Adjutant]

It’s a well known fact that Randy hides his shame from CTE with metrosexual scarfs

 

[Franklin U.]

I'll tell you what will be a problem is when these guys are well into 40s[if not sooner] are narcotics and I'm talking legally from a doctor.I hope they educate themselves or have people around them on being familiar on how devastating it can be on their lives

 

[moogie101]

If you are a fan of violent sports such as MMA, Boxing, NFL etc it is an unfortunate by-product & I can't see how you make any of these truly safer in the long-term without diluting what makes the sports enjoyable.

Of course the flipside is that Cerrone after his brutal fight with Matt Brown should not have been back in the Octagon just over a month later against Masvidal.

 

[VAfan]

I think it's a threat to the long-term future of the sport. Like the NFL, there will be litigation down the road on the liability for fighters' health as some will inevitably suffer from serious brain ailments later in life.

yup. the sport is so young that there hasn't been time for these guys to get old yet, but a lot of them are going to be in seriously bad shape as they get near 60 or so. and there will probably be a public outcry and an attempt to address it somehow.

 

[galleryy]

After we come to terms with it, what's the plan?

Robot mma ya goof

 

[BoD 2.0]

Robot mma ya goof

Woodley is already on it...

 

[Hagelslag2]

As a retired competitive kickboxer and a neuroscientist, I agree because I know there is more to full-contact sports than just a pro and con list of health outcomes. I, myself, will probably never enter a ring again because I don't have the desire to do so, because of the health effects and how important I deem them to be.

Fighting, professionally, as an amateur, in the streets, one against one or in a group against another group, is often a very cathartic experience. As long as there are clearly defined agreed upon boundaries, I would never want to deprive another person of the experience or the freedom of partaking in a fair fight., even if there is a change of brain damage or even death.