Did you see Muhammad Ali before the Orange Bowl?

[baronbvp]

He came out on the field in a Louisville uniform. The poor guy does not look like he's doing well. I know there's debate about whether his Parkinson's was caused by chronic encephalopathy from boxing, but it sure makes you want to strap on the head gear. What a shame for such a great fighter. Good on him for getting out on that field tonight.

[bushido_man96]

I didn't see him tonight, but I have seen him recently, and he is a shadow of his former self. Nothing like he used to be. You have to wonder if he took too many shots to the head, though.

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Watching a documentry recently it was interesting that they mentioned ali having parkinsons "syndrome" not parkinsons disease.

They also noted that the syndrome has a number of causes, but they beleive in ali's case its from repeated trauma to the brain stem.

[bushido_man96]

I thought that he had meningitis, or something like that. Very interesting.

[Elky]

He came out on the field in a Louisville uniform. The poor guy does not look like he's doing well. I know there's debate about whether his Parkinson's was caused by chronic encephalopathy from boxing, but it sure makes you want to strap on the head gear. What a shame for such a great fighter. Good on him for getting out on that field tonight.

I'm not sure headgear helps all that much. Since you never take a blow to the brainstem directly - it's the shaking of the brain that does much of the damage. Headgear doesn't protect you from having your brain shook about inside your skull.

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I'm not sure headgear helps all that much. Since you never take a blow to the brainstem directly - it's the shaking of the brain that does much of the damage. Headgear doesn't protect you from having your brain shook about inside your skull.

Agreed.

[baronbvp]

Hmmm...sounds very reasonable.