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Actually, this study focuses on the much more dangerous sport of football and only mentions boxing as a footnote to their statement about football.Ok I changed my mind ; getting punched hundreds and thousands time during a career in boxing is very healthy for your brain.
Even the article said sports where the head is in danger of trauma should be avoided.
Also the article is about actual injuries like breaking or straining something, it does not measure all the damage received from repeated blows to the head which every boxer endures.
Hey, I'm not saying that boxing is completely safe.. but in this pussified society that puts bubble wrap on everything, I'm fucking glad that we can freely choose to compete in the sport if we choose.
and the study you posted was based on only 18 fighters... that's hardly a large enough group of people to base any type of a medical statement on.
Get me a study that samples 100+ fighters from various boxing backgrounds, and then I'll take the study more seriously. Get me a study that gives a PERCENT that is actually pulled from at least 100 people..lol I mean if 15 of the 18 fighters you tested had some brain damage, then that can be declared by saying 15 people instead of 85%..lol.
Also, I think you have to contrast boxing directly with other sports using the same studies, and with people that are not in sports to get any type of a fair representation about how dangerous each sport is.. furthermore, you have to consider the type of people that get into combat sports. Many of these people aren't exactly mormanesque to begin with. I think it's safe to say that most boxers end up in a gym after developing a taste for scrapping on the streets....
so anyways.. it's more complex than the study you linked or you make it out to be