Media Ngannou reminding us Reem fans...

[sweetviolenturg]

Wow, if what you just said are all true, we gotta see more of you 'round here, bud! Your insight, needless to say, is valuable.

Thanks, man. And yeah, I'm always around.

 

[gaffbyknees2]

3 fucking years???? HOW LONG HAS 2020 BEEN?!?!

a decade

 

[DS66]

Alzheimer's and dementia also happens to people, and fighting or getting hit in the head has absolutely nothing to do with it. CTE, alzheimer's, and dementia all look the same so it most likely is genetic.

Getting hit in the head has "absolutely no link" to dementia? Are you sure about that? Do you have the science to back that claim up?

 

[Ultra O’Dia]

What's crazy is that both men have had 6 fights since with identical 4-2 records. How Overeem keeps coming back from the land of living death with no visible CTE symptoms is a medical mystery

I mean, you are totally correct, Im just looking for a reason..... Overeem doesnt have a chin that allows him to get in those 15 minute beatdown fights like Hunt, JDS, Tony Ferguson now, so maybe that helps? He is good at not getting hit, then he takes a couple of big ones and hits the deck.

That uppercut wouldve removed my head and spine, so im still very impressed with his ability to continue fighting at a high level with what seems to be a fully functioning brain.

 

[Ashen One]

Looked like a fucking mortal kombat 1 uppercut

I think that is the most accurate description of that I have come across.

 

[FIghtxIQ]

Getting hit in the head has "absolutely no link" to dementia? Are you sure about that? Do you have the science to back that claim up?

Not to the extent people are claiming. Dementia and Alzheimer's happen to people who have never fought, and never got hit in the head. So the basis of those and CTE being strictly related to fighting and getting hit in the head becomes invalid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/sports/cte-bennet-omalu/

That's a link to the original study that the movie "Concussions" was based on and the reason CTE became a buzzword for contact sports. The original doctor that did the study is looked at as a fraud and snake oil salesman in the brain science/neurologist community. He basically made a bunch of stuff up and used examples that can be found in other healthy brains with no history contact sports/combat sports/head injuries. The issues seem to be more genetic.

Concussions are real and with proper healing/recovery most people make a full recovery. It's just like any other injury, your body/brain repairs itself. If you don't let it recover properly then you will have issues, just like any other injury. Of course there are also freak accidents that happen, and that goes for all types of other injuries as well. But overall CTE is overblown and there is more false assumptions relating to it than actual fact.

People tend to confuse the handful of people dealing with drugs/alcohol/personal problems as CTE just because they have a history in contact/combat sports. But ignore the thousands throughout history that are perfectly fine.

 

[DS66]

Not to the extent people are claiming. Dementia and Alzheimer's happen to people who have never fought, and never got hit in the head. So the basis of those and CTE being strictly related to fighting and getting hit in the head becomes invalid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/sports/cte-bennet-omalu/

That's a link to the original study that the movie "Concussions" was based on and the reason CTE became a buzzword for contact sports. The original doctor that did the study is looked at as a fraud and snake oil salesman in the brain science/neurologist community. He basically made a bunch of stuff up and used examples that can be found in other healthy brains with no history contact sports/combat sports/head injuries. The issues seem to be more genetic.

Concussions are real and with proper healing/recovery most people make a full recovery. It's just like any other injury, your body/brain repairs itself. If you don't let it recover properly then you will have issues, just like any other injury. Of course there are also freak accidents that happen, and that goes for all types of other injuries as well. But overall CTE is overblown and there is more false assumptions relating to it than actual fact.

People tend to confuse the handful of people dealing with drugs/alcohol/personal problems as CTE just because they have a history in contact/combat sports. But ignore the thousands throughout history that are perfectly fine.

I'm not disagreeing with most of what you're saying. Of course there are a bunch of different causes of Alzheimer's/Dementia, most of which still aren't very well understood by doctors. I was just commenting on your statement that there is absolutely no link between head blows and dementia, which I don't believe is true. From my understanding, there are several studies linking traumatic brain injuries/concussions to the increased likelihood of developing dementia later in life. A lot of the studies are listed here: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-deme...ublished in PLOS,dementia even 30 years later.

On your comment regarding concussions needing the proper time to heal/recover, and if you don't let it recover properly there will be issues, I agree with that as well. The thing is in combat sports, it's nearly impossible to give head injuries the time to heal up. You might get a concussion in round 1 of a boxing match, and keep going taking dozens of more shots to the head for 11 more rounds. You might get dropped in sparring, and then have to keep training and fight a couple weeks later. These things are part of the game. If fighters took a ton of time off to heal properly every time they got hit hard in the head, they wouldn't have much of a career.

 

[FIghtxIQ]

I'm not disagreeing with most of what you're saying. Of course there are a bunch of different causes of Alzheimer's/Dementia, most of which still aren't very well understood by doctors. I was just commenting on your statement that there is absolutely no link between head blows and dementia, which I don't believe is true. From my understanding, there are several studies linking traumatic brain injuries/concussions to the increased likelihood of developing dementia later in life. A lot of the studies are listed here: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/related_conditions/traumatic-brain-injury#:~:text=The study, published in PLOS,dementia even 30 years later.

On your comment regarding concussions needing the proper time to heal/recover, and if you don't let it recover properly there will be issues, I agree with that as well. The thing is in combat sports, it's nearly impossible to give head injuries the time to heal up. You might get a concussion in round 1 of a boxing match, and keep going taking dozens of more shots to the head for 11 more rounds. You might get dropped in sparring, and then have to keep training and fight a couple weeks later. These things are part of the game. If fighters took a ton of time off to heal properly every time they got hit hard in the head, they wouldn't have much of a career.

Of course there are links to brain trauma to brain damage. But those are extreme cases and a lot are freak accidents. Just like any other injury, the damage taken is going to take more time for recovery like comparing a bruise/sprain/fracture/complete break in healing time.

Yes if people are fighting/sparring with unhealed concussions they are making it worse just like fighting/training with an injury. That injury will get worse every time it gets hit and will and make the injury worse. There is other training that can be done instead of getting hit in the head. It's a matter of adjusting the training. Your not going to keep running marathons with a broken foot/knee, you shouldn't be getting hit in the head with a concussion - it's counterproductive and increases the time needed to heal.

Without proper healing then yes they can and will cause problems. But there are also neuroprotectants that can aid in healing/recovery. So it's more of a matter of proper healing/recovery.