READ THIS

This cleared some things up for me:

"Buffalo News examines the medical details of Mesi’s injury: A subdural hematoma is a rupture of blood vessels, usually veins, between the brain and its outermost surrounding layer of tissue. The acute subdural hematoma, with severe bleeding and brain damage, is not a common occurrence in boxing but is the leading cause of boxing fatalities. The difficulty in judging Mesi’s case is that he falls into a different category. He had small amounts of bleeding with no apparent underlying damage. Since then, he appears to have fully recovered. The remaining question is whether the injury, however mild, places him at greater risk for another brain injury? Some doctors say he is at no greater risk, others say there simply is no way to know."

http://blog.thesweetscience.com/2006...m-rahman-more/

Mesi probably had a chronic subdural hematoma. "Chronic subdural bleeds develop over the period of days to weeks, often after minor head trauma, though such a cause is not identifiable in 50% of patients...Small subdural hematomas, those less than a centimeter wide, have much better outcomes than acute subdural bleeds: in one study, only 22% of patients with chronic subdural bleeds had outcomes worse than 'good' or 'complete recovery'"

The dangerous brain injury is acute subdural hematoma. "Acute bleeds develop after high speed acceleration or deceleration injuries and are increasingly severe with larger hematomas
...The mortality rate associated with acute subdural hematoma is around 60 to 80%."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdural_hematoma

AFTER you read the whole thing let me know what you think about Mesi coming back. I was very much against him fighting again but after researching I'm not sure he shouldn't be allowed to box again.