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I wonder if CTE is just the result of fighters that make fighting being the most absolute most important thing in their life and they have very little identity outside of training and fighting all the time...When the reality of the daily grind and work ethic that has occurred for so many years just abruptly ends, it must be VERY hard to transition into normal life.
Look at a lot of the athletes that encounter this CTE diagnosis...MOST are at the end of their careers and are of advanced age....I know plenty of fighters that fought MANY fights and transitioned into normal life very well without issue....Igor Vov comes to mind.
I am no doctor and this is JUST MY OPINION is just a theory....It seems to always happen to a lot of high profile fighters. Very tough and big EGO fighters....Ali, Wandy, Diego Sanchez.
It is also baffling that some guys can take crazy punishment and remain clear headed as they age....Luck of the draw? Maybe!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK326717/
This isn’t pretty informative on the development. I did a research paper on CTE last semester for PA school.
come at me bros
At 1:05 his wifes eyes.....are those the real color or contacts? never seen that eye color.
Probably 4 years sparring/taking hits. Also 2 really bad car/motorcycle wrecks that were pretty serious and concussive.
I still feel really sharp. I can process information just fine, learn just fine, all of that. But my medium-long term memory is nearly nonexistent. I forget everything from movies I REALLY enjoyed, in less than a month. Vacations I took a year ago, my memory of them for them most part is just fragments. Even if I had the most fun of my life.
ahhaha so truePill's comment on the video is gold LOL
At 1:05 his wifes eyes.....are those the real color or contacts? never seen that eye color.
Concussions aren’t as hard to get as many make them seem. Just banging your head on the car door or bumping heads can do it. In the most layman of terms a concussion is any blow to the head that causes any symptoms.