Obviously boxing isn't heathly, that goes without saying. However, there are certain things that have to happen in order for a fighter to be effected on a permanent basis.
Normally one (or both) of two things happen when a fighter is injured badly during a fight.
1.) Negligent commission/promoter, who don't have the proper medical people ringisde to deal w/ a serious situation after a brutal fight. Sometimes even if the doctors ringside do everything correctly, it won't matter b/c the fight was so brutal.
2.) The fighter shouldn't have been fighting in the first place. This is where you saying someone who is fat and not in great shape may help. That's kind of wrong, but you're right in the sense that people cut too much weight nowadays.
I believe you should fight at or around a comfortable weight, instead of cutting as much as you can in order to have a size advantage. This is a major problem in MMA too.
Little guys dehydrate themselves, and that causes less fluid to surround the brain. Obviously if that's the case, brain damage is more likely and your brain is more open to being damaged.
You rarely see heavyweights get brain injuries or messed up badly. That's b/c they can weigh whatever they want, and don't drain themselves.
On top of that, few heavyweights are capable of fighting at a very fast pace. It's worse for your brain/health to get hit semi-hard a hundred times than knocked out with one really hard punch.
Yes, especially in the lower weight category's like featherweight where there is more brain trauma received and dished out. After being in the sport for 3 decades I have seen many/over 50 former boxers usually lower weight/former featherweights suffer from Parkinson's syndrome directly from boxing
A wise man once said boxing is the only sport where you can get your brain shook,, your money took and your name in the undertaker's book. Definitely bad for your health. Also the added danger of the amount of scumbags that hang around the sport, guys with pockets full of cocaine and promoter that probably actively try to get boxers into debt.
All boxers are all brain damaged, its just a matter to what extent!
Taking hits to the head isnt good for you but your more likely to pick up a serious injury playing football(soccer), hockey, baseball, basketball, rugby, american football, ballet, cricket + many others
No matter the boxer's weight, every punch to the head kills brain cells.
It can b if you don't have the correct equipment, make sure if you really want to stay unharmed you wear headgear, if there will be face and or headshots me personally inbox ALOT with my friends and we don't use headgear, so it should be ok if you don't.
our body adjusts to a given condition, gettin punched as a sport makes your body work on it...
anythin too much aint healthy
Like are there any bad effects to the brain later on or in the moment of boxing. I'm talking about like featherweight boxing. Like do they get really bad brain damage to point where can affect their daily lives or is it not as bad. I mean it would be better to be really in shape doing boxing than be fat but after all those brain injuries I'm guessing fat is better???
