Is Overeem putting on an act?

[cevo]

Or do most Sherdoggers totally over exaggerate brain damage in mma?Boxing is 10X more brutal.Lots of doctors here too.

Yeah I'm sure we're completely over exaggerating the effects of getting knocked out unconcious 13 times....

Overeem is lucky he's not in a wheel chair at this point.

 

[GrantB13]

How can you fake not having memory loss and slurred speech?

 

[Necromantic]

He seems pretty normal in his interviews but dude has been knocked out cold like what, 15 times? That can't be good. .

Not everything entertaining is good.

 

[RaZer Cruz]

What does "crack his skull in half" have to do with anything? lol

That's what i'm talking about though is simple minded people who take things to the extremes like you are doing. Reem is nowhere near the amount of punches boxers regularly took and the issue with danger for fighters is not taking enough time between knock outs/damage or just taking too many shots which is mainly a boxing problem.

Actually I was talking to damage as a whole not just the damage Overeem is taking and why people would be concerned, you in your previous points made towards me never mentioned this debate about who takes more damage Overeem or boxers. That is why I did not suit the argument towards that debate.

 

[RaZer Cruz]

Empathy and delusional thoughts are two different things though.

Most adults are going to understand fighters are a different breed and are going to take damage. Acting afraid for them and watching scared wanting them to retire after every KO is incredibly silly.

I agree on wanting someone to retire talk about a simple KO. You have to also see it as when fighters take a certain amount of damage people naturally get worried especially the damage Overeem is taking because it looks worst that it is.

 

[Fullmount Triangle]

all these mma noobs not understanding that the dutch brain is made to be shut off. Kickboxing worked when the dutch ran it, they'd fight 8 times a year, lose twice by knockout, dust themselves off and fight again quickly. It's the way of the road boys.


Overeem is fine, he's dutch, it's in his genes.

 

[Kumason]

Yeah I'm sure we're completely over exaggerating the effects of getting knocked out unconcious 13 times....

Overeem is lucky he's not in a wheel chair at this point.

So all his 11 ko/tko losses in mma left him unconscious?That's false and a stupid thing to say as it's obviously not true.Sherdog is obsessed with this stuff lol.According to many on Sherdog Daniel Cormier's chin is not the same and he'll never be the same after losing by TKO once.

Dementia pugilistica is a real and terrible thing but according to all the doctors on Sherdog anyone that gets slapped in the head will soon die or be in a wheelchair.There's a reason fighters go through all kinds of testing so just leave that kind of stuff to the smart people or up to the competitors that aren't forced to step into the cage.

 

[ChoKuRei]

You can pretend to have brain damage, not the other way around unfortunately

 

[Dirge]

Have you ever boxed?I would rather be punched in the face with a bare fist then with a boxing glove.That shit rattles your brain and is worse.

Actually I have... Getting punched with a glove the size of a dinner plate that I can partially block with my glove the size of a dinner plate is preferable to being hit with a mass of bone. I boxed from pre-teen to my early 20's without any significant injuries. And yet one bar brawl, I took a punch to the face that broke my orbital socket.

 

[swarrrm]

TS seems to be one of those guys who creams themselves hoping for brain damage after every KO

 

[cevo]

So all his 11 ko/tko losses in mma left him unconscious?That's false and a stupid thing to say as it's obviously not true.Sherdog is obsessed with this stuff lol.According to many on Sherdog Daniel Cormier's chin is not the same and he'll never be the same after losing by TKO once.

Dementia pugilistica is a real and terrible thing but according to all the doctors on Sherdog anyone that gets slapped in the head will soon die or be in a wheelchair.There's a reason fighters go through all kinds of testing so just leave that kind of stuff to the smart people or up to the competitors that aren't forced to step into the cage.

"All kinds of testing" LOL

We can't even detect CTE on humans that are alive yet..

But I'm sure sparring hard for 15 years and getting severly rocked 11+ times is great for your brain.

 

[Kumason]

"All kinds of testing" LOL

We can't even detect CTE on humans that are alive yet..

But I'm sure sparring hard for 15 years and getting severly rocked 11+ times is great for your brain.

Yeah I know,thanks doc.Maybe you can plan an intervention for him.

 

[cevo]

Yeah I know,thanks doc.Maybe you can plan an intervention for him.

From Dr Johnny Benjamin:

The question out there is how many sustained concussions is too many, and according to the latest literature that's coming out, the answer is starting to look like it's somewhere between two and three. That's where you start having permanent changes.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...r-old-heavyweight-stefan-struve-should-retire

Overeem better pray to god this doctor is talking out of his ass.

 

[Homervanderjaz]

The 300k per fight he earns can buy a lot of ibuprofen

Was it not a lot higher than this?

 

[Karelinator]

Aside from ~15 Tkos he had suffered between MMA and kickboxing, there are couple of beatings to the head he had taken without going out....

Hunt, Werdum 3, Roy Nelson fights for starters.

He definitely should think about hanging them up while he still feels allright.

 

[Kumason]

Was it not a lot higher than this?

$810,000 in show money alone.

 

[Workaholic]

Nobody could eat that uppercut from hell from naggonu.. this time I'll say it wasn't a chin problem.. anybody would get KTFO with that shot

Lots of his KO losses were those kind of shots. Which kind of makes it worse

Overeem hasn't just been KO'd like 15 times. He's been KO'd 15 times... and at least like 10 of them were brutal devastating KO stoppages.

 

[Karelinator]

.According to many on Sherdog Daniel Cormier's chin is not the same and he'll never be the same after losing by TKO once.
.

Welll, they've apparently found the degeneration due to CTE in Jordan Parson's brain.

And he was only 25 years old with single KO loss when he had died.

So even once may, sadly, be enough.

 

[bergueg]

 

[jcow3]

Or do most Sherdoggers totally over exaggerate brain damage in mma?Boxing is 10X more brutal.Lots of doctors here too.

eh

they're probably equally brutal lets be honest. along with american football. I think at some point it sort of maxes out