Parkinson's disease likely for Hatton? - ABC News article.

The knockout that Ricky Hatton suffered in the heavy hands of Manny Pacquiao was no ordinary knockout.

Because in the eyes of a medical expert, the pride of Manchester who went down cold after taking a solid left hook to the jaw showed signs of seizure while he lay motionless on the canvas.

Dr. Rolando Jeremillo Jr., an ortho surgeon and medical director of the Ambica Biotechnologies here in the Philippines, is no boxing expert. But he surely knows his way around the brutal sport.

“I’ve seen a lot of knockouts, and some big ones, too. But what Ricky Hatton suffered was a different one. It was a scary knockout,” said Jeremillo, who saw the fight live on pay-per-view.

“There are knockouts where the boxers fall hard and wobble on the way up. And there are knockouts of this kind, where the boxers, in this case Hatton, lose consciousness for a brief time.”

Based on his observation, Hatton appeared to have lost his consciousness even before he hit the blue canvas of the MGM Grand that was packed to the rafters. His eyes rolled, breathed heavily and hardly moved for some time.

“To me, it looked like a seizure right there and then,” observed Jeremillo.

No wonder Hatton’s fiancée, Jennifer Dooley, was almost hysterical at ringside, being consoled by the girlfriend of the boxer’s brother, Matthew. His parents, Ray and Carol, were also at ringside.

A seizure, according to wikipedia, can last few seconds, and are often associated with a sudden and involuntary contraction of a group of muscles and loss of consciousness.

As Pacquiao and his fans celebrated, ring physicians attended to Hatton who appeared to be in a very dangerous state.

It took a few minutes before he managed to get up.

He was later taken to the Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, underwent brain scan and few other tests before being cleared.

The day after he was at the pool area of the MGM, cooling off.

Jeremillo can only hope that the worst is over for Hatton. He said punches like that may cause Parkinson’s disease, the same one which fighters like Muhammad Ali or even Freddie Roach suffers from.

“It may come 10 or 20 years from now. But even if Hatton retires tomorrow, he just became a candidate for Parkinson’s (a disease that causes movement disorders),” said Jeremillo.


Parkinson's disease likely for Hatton? | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

Here's keeping the fingers crossed that this won't be the case.

That article strikes me as a load of old bollocks. When it said 'a seizure, according to wikipedia', I decided it couldn't be taken seriously. Ricky is as much a candidate for Parkinson's as any other boxer who's been brutally KO'd.

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That article strikes me as a load of old bollocks. When it said 'a seizure, according to wikipedia', I decided it couldn't be taken seriously. Ricky is as much a candidate for Parkinson's as any other boxer who's been brutally KO'd.

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Totally agree. The article itself is in poor taste, and the supposed doctor is clutching at straws for the sake of sensationalism. Second rate journalism really.

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That article strikes me as a load of old bollocks. When it said 'a seizure, according to wikipedia', I decided it couldn't be taken seriously. Ricky is as much a candidate for Parkinson's as any other boxer who's been brutally KO'd.

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My thoughts exactly!

Such a vague article.

retarded and plain stupid

Anyone who works in the medical proffession will tell you you dont walk about 5 minutes after suffering a seizure and you definitely dont instantanionsly become a sufferer of parkinsons disease


this guys a dick

the news source itself are fraud according to my cousins from Manila.. the most hated channel in there i think ABSCBN..

Hell the article doesn't even go into any medical detail on really what a seizure is. I am no expert except that I have had a few of them, and basically it is like a lightning storm passing through your brain and setting of nerve impulses through out your body. Hence the uncontrollable shaking one sees in a typical seizure and the incoherence shown by the person suffering one.

Basically Hatton suffered a massive concussion not a seizure.

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the news source itself are fraud according to my cousins from Manila.. the most hated channel in there i think ABSCBN..

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well ur cousin is obviously a "kapuso" slogan of gma 7 they are equivalent to pac nuthuggers. i hate to say this but gma7 vs abs2 is just a thing for class d-e people. a,b,c people watch cable. :)


i saw this doctor on TV he is just there watching the fight just for the sake of it. he commented about the KO and thats it its not like its a 30min detailed explanation of the whole thing.

whoever wrote that suffers from writers block who cant think of anything with sense to talk about.

only time will tell.

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That article strikes me as a load of old bollocks. When it said 'a seizure, according to wikipedia', I decided it couldn't be taken seriously. Ricky is as much a candidate for Parkinson's as any other boxer who's been brutally KO'd.

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There are far too many boxers who suffer from parkinson's or other chronic brain maladies, but most of them aren't in the lime light.

Sorry He is talking out of His arse, But in 20 years we will have forgotten Him and His statement. ;D

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Sorry He is talking out of His arse, But in 20 years we will have forgotten Him and His statement. ;D

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I've forgotten the first post of this thread:confused:

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That article strikes me as a load of old bollocks. When it said 'a seizure, according to wikipedia', I decided it couldn't be taken seriously. Ricky is as much a candidate for Parkinson's as any other boxer who's been brutally KO'd.

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Totally agree. The article itself is in poor taste, and the supposed doctor is clutching at straws for the sake of sensationalism. Second rate journalism really.

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Before I started reading this article I told myself "I wonder if it was written by someone in the Philippines or a hardcore PacFanBoy"...bingo!

What's next? We will hear news that Pac was going to open the door of his car and pulled it all off "by accident" because he's just that amazingly strong and can't control his SuperMan strength or that his house was blown away as he blew his birthday candles.:rolleyes:

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retarded and plain stupid

Anyone who works in the medical proffession will tell you you dont walk about 5 minutes after suffering a seizure and you definitely dont instantanionsly become a sufferer of parkinsons disease


this guys a dick

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Actually you can be walking around after having a seizure, especially micro seizures.

Sorry how many of you have medical degrees? And how many of you have read extensively on neurologists studies of brain trauma? Boxing is terrible for the brain, I stil watch it because I love the sport, and these guys are making enough money IMO to compensate for the risks involved.