Nick Blackwell also had headaches before Eubank Jnr - Calls for pre fight brain scans

[El Kabong]

I remember hearing that some folks who believed that Gerald McClellan was injured from hard sparring going into the fight with Nigel Benn.


It's not beyond the realm of possibility especially if you are sparring a lot...head gear and bigger gloves don't protect the brain. The brain just sloshes around in your skull regardless of headgear or mouthpieces or poofy gloves. No real way to stabilize it and keep it from getting rocked around like a brick in a clothes dryer

[smashup]

I remember hearing that some folks who believed that Gerald McClellan was injured from hard sparring going into the fight with Nigel Benn.


It's not beyond the realm of possibility especially if you are sparring a lot...head gear and bigger gloves don't protect the brain. The brain just sloshes around in your skull regardless of headgear or mouthpieces or poofy gloves. No real way to stabilize it and keep it from getting rocked around like a brick in a clothes dryer

Very true and it's been proven by neurosurgeons that most damage is done in sparring, i mean ask yourself if you had son who boxed would you rather these devices were used prior to the fight or not used at all?

Im sure everyone on this forum would want them used

[Memphis]

McClellan was apparently experiencing all the symptoms that both Blackwell and Towell were experiencing. Intense, prolonged headaches, dizzy spells. The blinking and hanging the mouth guard out started before the fight with Benn.

There has to be a distinction between par for the course symptoms following a tough spar or lead up to a fight, and persistent issues that cause you to lose your memory, blink repeatedly, hang your mouth guard out of your gob.

Master mentioned Tam and the white collar stuff he was doing. Tam can correct me on this but if memory serves, his problems resulted ironically from trying to be more 'professional' and squeezing himself down in weight to a place where he perhaps didn't belong.

[Master]

I was waiting for Tam to respond. Come on @Tam Seddon

[smashup]

This is as simple as running the device over a fighters head which takes 2-3 minutes before he fights, if there's a bleed he doesn't fight if there isn't he does fight.

And yeah where is Tam..?

I know he was booked to fight on my mate Scotts card over in Malta but had some kind of seizure before it started, has he been on since then?

[Master]

This is as simple as running the device over a fighters head which takes 2-3 minutes before he fights, if there's a bleed he doesn't fight if there isn't he does fight.

And yeah where is Tam..?

I know he was booked to fight on my mate Scotts card over in Malta but had some kind of seizure before it started, has he been on since then?

Yes he has and is OK and well but not fought just training.

[generalbulldog]

Slightly off topic, but I remember reading years ago that fighters below the HW division would really dry out to make weight and then rehydrate on average 10-15 pounds before stepping into the ring. The article mentioned that by severely dehydrating and rehydrating like this, the brain isn't fully rehydrated yet and it's actually pretty dangerous and can cause numerous problems, just for a size advantage on fight night. Maybe some of the problems lies in that too?

Come to think of it, I don't even remember if a HW has ever died in boxing since I've been following the sport, it's usually the divisions below it.