Can you make boxing safe?

[Ron Swanson]

If we were honest about how little head trauma causes life long damage the sport would surely be gone. There isn’t a fighter in the sport that has the brain they started with.

While I love standing 8s and wish they were used they are yet another way for a hurt fighter to recover. But, you don’t recover after you are concussed. Each blow after a concussion is far far more damaging.

We have to be honest, we know it’s dangerous, fighters know it’s dangerous. The real question is should we allow people to take such risks. I say their body their choice.

Most attempts to be safer would probably backfire. They’d probably go to bigger gloves and get more people hurt. Forcing people to fight at their actual weight by weighing them all through camp is a fantastic idea but promoters would never allow it. The last thing promoters want is fights canceled.

[Ron Swanson]

You have to question if fans care because this

https://www.mma-core.com/videos/Tyso...loves/10327964

Has been out for at least a day and not a peep here.

[Spicoli]

You have to question if fans care because this

https://www.mma-core.com/videos/Tyso...loves/10327964

Has been out for at least a day and not a peep here.

Isn't that from November of last year? Seems a little iffy random worn gloves laying around and is he actually sparring now with that eye.

[Ron Swanson]

You have to question if fans care because this

https://www.mma-core.com/videos/Tyso...loves/10327964

Has been out for at least a day and not a peep here.

Isn't that from November of last year? Seems a little iffy random worn gloves laying around and is he actually sparring now with that eye.

Yes, but the guy put the video out yesterday. No doubt the gloves were garbage. The question is if Fury used those garbage gloves. And the question should be asked of our never was lineal, steroid cheat champ.

[Spicoli]

You have to question if fans care because this

https://www.mma-core.com/videos/Tyso...loves/10327964

Has been out for at least a day and not a peep here.

Isn't that from November of last year? Seems a little iffy random worn gloves laying around and is he actually sparring now with that eye.

Yes, but the guy put the video out yesterday. No doubt the gloves were garbage. The question is if Fury used those garbage gloves. And the question should be asked of our never was lineal, steroid cheat champ.

Yeh that would be a pretty crappy thing to do and damn dangerous. But I'm also wondering if dude was still sparring him after he took his footage. Why wait

[Fatboxingfan]

He's doing in sparring not in actual matches, because he wants strengthen his hands, toughen up his knuckles for when it's the time for the real fight!

[Gandalf]

If we were honest about how little head trauma causes life long damage the sport would surely be gone. There isn’t a fighter in the sport that has the brain they started with.

While I love standing 8s and wish they were used they are yet another way for a hurt fighter to recover. But, you don’t recover after you are concussed. Each blow after a concussion is far far more damaging.

We have to be honest, we know it’s dangerous, fighters know it’s dangerous. The real question is should we allow people to take such risks. I say their body their choice.

Most attempts to be safer would probably backfire. They’d probably go to bigger gloves and get more people hurt. Forcing people to fight at their actual weight by weighing them all through camp is a fantastic idea but promoters would never allow it. The last thing promoters want is fights canceled.

I don't know. Some fighters like Calzaghe or Froch or Eubank seem just as lucid as they have always been. I am sure boxing takes its toll on many, but plenty seem fine and live long productive lives. If you didn't know Calzaghe was a fighter you wouldn't think of him as damaged in any way.