Boxing and brain damage.

[Taeth]

Which rules? From what I've seen of Robinson fight, I am surprised he lived as long as he did, and he was known as one of the more defensive fighters in that era, but he virtually had no defense compared to what fighters have nowadays.

[El Kabong]

Before the Queensberry Rules were adopted the Broughton or London Prize Rules were used they had different views on rounds. A round today is 3 minutes a round under the old rules it was whenever someone was knocked down...they had 30 seconds to rest and 8 seconds to "come to scratch"....scratch being the chalk line in the middle of the ring much like the walk forward command today's refs give to a fighter who has just been knocked down.

[Youngblood]

This thread is
doing my head in