Media Former UFC Fighter and Veteran Nam Phan Suffering From Serious CTE

[AstralPanda]

Very sad to see how well he was speaking before versus today. I understand the need to provide for your family as a man and a fighter

But friends and family really need to get involved at a certain point.

A lot of it comes down to these gyms as well. Gray Maynard is another guy with scary signs of CTE, he trained out of Xtreme Couture, a gym known for hard sparring and gym wars.

This kind of training is allowed to happen and results in these sad cases of guys barely able to string a sentence together or worse.

Times have changed, but some of these gyms / coaches haven't moved on and are still training like a bunch of cavemen with no regard for their fighters.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

With Nam it's important to note that after his MMA career he decided to become a can in boxing for a bit and lost 7 times in a row which will not have helped.

 

[Thesnake101]

With Nam it's important to note that after his MMA career he decided to become a can in boxing for a bit and lost 7 times in a row which will not have helped.

Didn't he also get robbed in one of those fights or was that Moraga?

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Sad because Nam is still so young.

 

[MigitAs]

Without cautionary tales like Nam more kids would rush into the brain-damage-inducing practices of certain combat sports. Unfortunately there have always been cases like this since the early days of boxing.

 

[AstralPanda]

Could swear I posted the link. That's odd, it vanished.

Oh well, I reposted.

 

[Spath]

With Nam it's important to note that after his MMA career he decided to become a can in boxing for a bit and lost 7 times in a row which will not have helped.

Wasn’t he also known to swang and bang in the gym? Left his career in the gym, octagon and the ring. Ouch

 

[xn7]

He also is doing muay thai fights (record of 1-1-1) and most recently got KO'd about a year ago.

Nam's CTE has been a topic that pops up periodically for the past 5 or 6 years.

 

[WillyWarminski]

Thanks for posting.

UFC are going to end up having to address this eventually.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Thanks for posting.

UFC are going to end up having to address this eventually.

I think the sport has kind of naturally addressed it by itself. Camps like Chuteboxe, MFS, Lions Den etc used to beat the shit out of each other every day and their sparring sessions were like real fights. People don't really train like that anymore and someone who spars as much as Strickland for example is an outlier, but everyone used to train like that and go twice as hard. Most of these guys ruined their brains in the gym rather than the cage.

 

[The_Renaissance]

With Nam it's important to note that after his MMA career he decided to become a can in boxing for a bit and lost 7 times in a row which will not have helped.

He's also like a lifetime fighter in various disciplines really.

 

[WillyWarminski]

I think the sport has kind of naturally addressed it by itself. Camps like Chuteboxe, MFS, Lions Den etc used to beat the shit out of each other every day and their sparring sessions were like real fights. People don't really train like that anymore and someone who spars as much as Strickland for example is an outlier, but everyone used to train like that and go twice as hard. Most of these guys ruined their brains in the gym rather than the cage.

This is true.
When I was training forever ago even for MMA, I was lucky enough for it to be controlled but two other gyms I visited were effectively fighting every spar. No holding back.

Still plenty to be found online "spar wars" has so many gyms still well deep into that culture but still vastly outweighed I think by those smartening up.

 

[Harlekin]

Tae Kwon Do at 4 years
Karate as a kid as well
Also Việt Quyền Đạo

21 - 17 MMA 38
4 TUF (not really amateur)
3 - 8 -1 Boxing 12
= 54 Fights
+ All his years of Karate, TKD, Việt Quyền Đạo fights

Pro from 2001 - 2018

A life of fighting

 

[Trabaho]

Brain damage is for competition. Sparring is for learning. Hai style sparring practice.

Also you can't compete as the underdog so much and get beat up over 2 decades.

He overdid it.

 

[cmw43]

He was already going downhill in 2012 if you compare to his 2007 pre-UFC interviews.

The guy just has had way too many shots to the head.

 

[tritestill]

Breaks my heart bro

 

[gracie_barra_samurai]

they're still overpaid and daddy dana deserves the bigger cut.

 

[blaseblase]

Nam Phan was still actively competing in Muay Thai as of 6 months ago. This is the original interview TS pulled the clip from. He's talking about having 50 Muay Thai fights.



I don't think you can blame this one on the UFC. He last fought for them literally a decade ago, had he called it quits then I imagine he would be talking normally today. Dude is in his 40s and still wants to get punched in the head for a living.

 

[fizzlehiss]

How many threads does this need.

 

[fizzlehiss]

Tae Kwon Do at 4 years
Karate as a kid as well
Also Việt Quyền Đạo

21 - 17 MMA 38
4 TUF (not really amateur)
3 - 8 -1 Boxing 12
= 54 Fights
+ All his years of Karate, TKD, Việt Quyền Đạo fights

Pro from 2001 - 2018

A life of fighting

Important to note that, not ony he has fought extensively, he went into bad gyms and also did boxing. Boxing might have contributed the worst damage out of everything as if he was boxed up in the ring, he was getting boxed up in the gym too, so there was no recovery period at all.