Is Mike Tyson showing PD signs?

**ykdadamaja** · 09-10-2017 06:18 AM

People NEVER talk about the drug abuse (both legal and illegal), poor diet, lack of sleep (long hours of training and concentration) and oxygen to the brain (due to weight draining) and other physiological factors play a part in the brain damage fighters incur.

To say that all boxers should get brain damage because they box is like saying all persons with brain damage were boxers.

From my cursory glance, the guys who have slurred speech and traumatic brain disease can either be traced back to 1. Hereditary issues, or 2. One or more of the above aforementioned issues.

Drug abuse is a main key factor along with weight draining. Also, to be honest, most of these guys were barely literate before they started to fight. James Toney wasn't a Rhode Scholar and other guys just were street thugs who barely could make a sentence. Sure, some guys took too much punishment- Hearns, Norris (Terry), Benitez and now Shane Mosely, but.... NO ONE TOLD THEM TO STAY IN WAY PAST THEIR PRIMES, DOING THE SAME THINGS, WHILE BEING POUNDED BY GUYS YOUNGER, FASTER AND NATURALLY STRONGER THAN THEY WERE!!

To some extent, you have to be like Oscar and Floyd- both at the top of their games, both got out just when they should have before someone kills them in the ring!

**ykdadamaja** · 09-10-2017 06:19 AM

Actually, to be fair, the sport has come a LONG WAY from the brute-carnage that happened during the 70s and 80s. It's amazing some of those men are still standing. Truthfully.

**GaMo** · 09-10-2017 06:53 AM

Look at Wladimir Klitschko, he had 140 fights as an amateur
And 69 fights as a professional (a lot at the highest level)
And he still speaks clearly and seems fine at 41.

That's a guy who was knocked out four times
And knocked down over ten times but he lived a clean lifestyle
And didn't abuse his body between fights by gaining lots of weight.

**brocktonblockbust** · 09-10-2017 08:01 AM

I think fights are stopped way too early nowadays. Tyson didn't really take any punishment except against Buster Douglas and Lennox Lewis. I would not say that Holyfield did any damage to Tyson

X · 09-10-2017 10:42 AM

Tommy Hearns had harder and more brutal fights every day in the gym than he ever did under the lights, on TV and with a neutral referee.

**GaMo** · 09-10-2017 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by X

Tommy Hearns had harder and more brutal fights every day in the gym than he ever did under the lights, on TV and with a neutral referee.

Here he is swapping shots with the greatest...

https://youtu.be/r2thglwsTak

**Spicoli** · 09-10-2017 10:53 AM

It's weird really, you get some guys just starting out like Gervonta Davis who make Mike sound like a word smith. Chances are he had a smoke, maybe not, before these talk show interviews. The guy is doing regular stage appearances with decent crowds so not like he's talking with a mouth full of marbles.