Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
I think heavy sparring is what got Gerald McClellan hurt, he was a notorious gym rat and sparred near 100% and I think he may have been not 100% when he started the fight with Benn much less after repeated blows to the back of the head.



I don't know about you guys but I think bigger gloves make for more brain damage (to a certain point) because no one worries about breaking their hands ergo you throw harder because you're not thinking "if I land this punch wrong it's going to hurt really bad" (as much).
Contrary to popular belief and some outdated reports it is not glove size that really matters when it comes to the damage....a pair of 18oz gloves will cause as much damage as a pair of 10oz over a long period of time...Glove size really only helps during the duration of the bout....

The constant sloshing of the brain is what causes the damage....

Punch Drunk Syndrome/Pugilistic Dementia- is from a long periods of abuse...most signs show up after 10 or so years in those effected

It can be developed one of two ways...

1. Abundance of concussions in a short period of time

2. Exposure to blows to the head not hard enough to cause a concussion but hard enough to cause the brain to move out of it's comfortable status

It is actually the second of the two that is more likely to cause the damage since the first one will force the body to stop taking abuse before the damage becomes to severe....(Those guys that are KO'd 5 times in a row and can not get licensed)

I actually did a study of it in College as a theseus for one of my classes....

They claim to find new things out all the time and reword things to un needed extents but it always comes back the same in the end......

Too much hits to the head....Glove size really has little effect in protecting a fighter from brain damage unless he has a very short career in mind