Doesn't Ali have Parkinson's? I mean, getting hit in the head so much probably didn't help, but it's not a causitive factor for the disease that I know of.
But still, that's the right idea. So much of the injury in boxing in silent, cumalative injury. You're pretty much gonna get some level of concusion unless you can defend every punch to the head all the time.
All that repeated brain injury will add up. Not to mention the broken noses and just getting uglier and uglier.
Now, you probably do have a better chance of acute traumatic injury in football, but I would think that your chances of permanent impairment after a career in boxing is greater.
But don't get me wrong. I love boxing.
Linebacker, what's wrong with you that you haven't watched rocky?;)
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