"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book."
-Smokin Joe Frazier

“How many times did you get hit and know it damaged your brain ?”
Joe: “oh 100% percent”

After hearing off these head traumas and brain damages I'll probably just settle for ju jitsu

Joe "I have the most minor of brain damages" Rogan

In the next 40 years we'll see the true effects of brain damage in MMA

The irony of learning martial arts is, in trying to protect yourself, you end up getting hit a lot more than people who never bothered to learn it

A good story I heard was from michael Bisping after Dan henderson knocked him out cold at UFC 100. Bisping says that he was in the back room after the fight and didn’t know he’d already fought. He thought he was getting ready for the fight and his team had to tell him about 5 times that he’d just been knocked out. If that’s not brain damage then I don’t know what is 🧠 💣

It took me more than 10 years to overcome a concussion I had when I was 17.
I couldn't even speak a sentence immediately after like my mouth and brain were out of synch.

If you get concussion in F1 they won't let you drive for 3 months because a second concussion in that time can cause irreversible damage.  American contact sportsmen just seem to dive back in right away(e.g American Football).  It's pretty horrific when you think about it.

After I got my first concussion from sparring, I seriously backed off from sparring for months. Used to do it 3-4 times a week, now I do it once every couple months, and I go light. It's not worth your future health. Once you feel that fuzzy, dumb concussed state, you realize how serious it is.

God. I want to learn MMA, but the brain damage stories and studies are making me hesitant

some of the UFC fighters are going to have a lot of brain trauma.

"People knocked each other out all the time" now thats some serious sparing

Roe Jogan

Joe spinning elk kick to the liver Rogan.

It's still shocking that Brendan's came on almost immediately

This means Wilder has ruined 40 lives even if they don't know it yet

In 10 years Chuck Liddell won’t be able to walk

I talked to a neurologist and he said sometimes people can take up to a few years to recover from a head injury. This can be reversed with eating fats, sleep, and doing something like dance lessons to improve neuron connectivity.

TBI and CTE are two different things but can be POTENTIALLY related. It's weird because you have guys like Joe (and my 60yo uncle who has over 50 kickboxing fights) and they're very cognitive, healthy, and smarter than the average person. xD

Anyways, I think grappling will become much more popular because of the knowledge we have about brain damage lol

I was in a car accident nearly 20 years ago where I rolled my vehicle 8 times, and my head hit on the grass field separation between interstate lanes at least 5 times. I still feel the effects today, and now and then they are horrible. I can't imagine what boxers go through...I have terrible hours or days...they must have terrible weeks or months.