# what's wrong with boxing today?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-boxing-today/294012
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [March 11, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-boxing-today/294012 "2005-03-11T13:41:48Z")
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### Author: ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-boxing-today/294012/21 "2005-03-15T04:06:29Z")

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> [@Valgard](#):
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> Sorry, this is getting a little offtrack…I still maintain that Duckster’s original point (that boxing requires damaging your opponent’s brain to win) isn’t quite right.

Well, I agreed with you in my first post, but wanted to bring you back on track.

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> Anyone have any stats regarding the number of boxers who wind up with brain injuries?

I did a search not too long ago on the Google Scholar for “boxing brain damage” and found a number of studies with conflicting results (most were abstracts only, so I couldn’t comment on the methodology) regarding how awful boxing is. In some cases, they said that _dementia_ is something that most amateurs will never have to worry about, and that it’s really only heavyweight pros that will have problems. Others say that even the strawweights will become drooling fools by round two of their first fight.

That’s probably not terribly helpful though.

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