We've had this conversation a couple of times already.

Mesi has been staying active, fighting low profile fighters, looking for his way back in to a more important fight. He should be at the stage now where he's ready to fight a top 10.

Apparently, there's no greater risk of second injury of the kind he suffered than there is of a first; meaning, the fact that it happened to him once puts him in no greater risk of it happening again than any boxer has of it happening at all. The fact that it was brain-related makes it easy to make blanket statements like VD's here, and I'm not disrespecting VD by saying that. Lots of folks hold that position.

But if he really is at no greater risk than any other boxer for the kind of injury he received, there's no point in keeping him from fighting on.

That said - I doubt that he is likely ever to get a meaningful belt or be a contender for a title. He might do well picking away at some of the bottom half of the top 10. He has some good skills but his defense against a big and strong HW isn't good enough. Jirov may not have ruined him, but he got to him way too much.