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It might not snip off the back end, but reading this thread is 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Head trauma doesn't take years off your life? If not years off your life how about years off your career or diminished fighting ability? What about parkinson's or other problems later in life. It can affect fighters in many ways. You disagree?The kind of damage you get from a UFC fight does not take years off your life. Junior Dos Santos did not lose years of his life in the Cain Velasquez fights. Rory Macdonald and Robbie Lawler did not lose years of their life in their fights. It's idiotic to say these things. There are people who lose limbs in wars who go on to live in their 80's and 90's.
so you think life is a video game and every hit to the head reduces your health bar?So OP thinks humans can take repeated blows to the head and be fine afterwards?
so you think life is a video game and every hit to the head reduces your health bar?
its not like that lolBasically, take enough shots to the head and you reduce your bar enough that you get CTE.
Take no hits and you don't get CTE.
Kind of agree with TS.
I think most of the damage is done in training.
Guys who sparred like idiots (Shogun, Wanderlei) were completely shot in their mid 30s.
PEDS, CTE, weight cuts.....can't be good for your life.
These threads that say "Stop saying _______" always turn out so well for the thread starter.
People on forums love being told what to do, they are very open to modifying their behavior because a thread from another anonymous poster tells them to LMAO.
Then why do people die from combat sports?The kind of damage you get from a UFC fight does not take years off your life. Junior Dos Santos did not lose years of his life in the Cain Velasquez fights. Rory Macdonald and Robbie Lawler did not lose years of their life in their fights. It's idiotic to say these things. There are people who lose limbs in wars who go on to live in their 80's and 90's.
I don't care if anybody listens. I don't care if every single person on this forum trolls me for saying it.
All I care about is that it be known that my stance is this: It's stupid to say _____ fight took years off so and so's life. Because you don't know that.
NFL players life expectancy is less than 60 years, UFC hasn't been around long enough to see these guys into old age but its clear many fighters have brain damage that will shorten their life