Hello everyone, new to the forum, long time lurker.
I was curious, which is worse on the body:
-getting knocked out cold by a clean shot in the first couple of rounds
-getting grinded up and worn down and eventually stopped or dropped via late round knockout
Have any professional boxers/coaches/doctors given their opinion on this?
Personally I'd rather be knocked out by a clean shot. I've sparred before and even if you're winning, the longer the fight goes, the more sore and achey you are. But I never got knocked out so I'm biased.
Clean Knockouts vs wearing down
Re: Clean Knockouts vs wearing down
A clean KO is your friend vs being hit in the head hundreds of times during a fight.
Problem can be that second hit when your head hits the canvas, which had varying degrees of denseness, and can add to the trauma. Though IF you are out at that time, you probably hit it while very loose, and that can be better than hitting it when you've tightened up.
But these days, a KO will get a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, and it could come to pass that your going to have to go through tests to show just how much damage you took.
Depending on just how far the up the ladder of notoriety you happen to be.
Problem can be that second hit when your head hits the canvas, which had varying degrees of denseness, and can add to the trauma. Though IF you are out at that time, you probably hit it while very loose, and that can be better than hitting it when you've tightened up.
But these days, a KO will get a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, and it could come to pass that your going to have to go through tests to show just how much damage you took.
Depending on just how far the up the ladder of notoriety you happen to be.
Re: Clean Knockouts vs wearing down
Some of the worst instances of brain damage in boxing have occured when guys not known for there punching power were allowed to land shot after shot without a fight being stopped.
Re: Clean Knockouts vs wearing down
A steady beating is almost always more damaging than a one shot knockout.
Re: Clean Knockouts vs wearing down
I agree with the posters here in their belief that absorbing punches being thrown by a light puncher or feather fisted puncher over a series of rounds if far more dangerous to a human body than one big punch to the chin resulting in a knockout. The concept of the double concussive injury (Head slamming against the canvas after the knockout blow withstanding) while presenting its own dangers does not present the accumulative damage of a sustained beating. A good example of this would be Bennie "Kid" Paret vs Gene Fullmer, Fullmer a full blown middleweight was matched against the courageous Paret on December 9, 1961 for National Boxing Association Middleweight Championship worn by Gene Fullmer. Paret was savagely pounded over for 10 rounds in a fight that should have been stopped probably 3 or 4 rounds earlier. Paret ( A former welterweight World Champion) was known to be a courageous and tough battler albeith a light puncher. Many boxing historians feel that this fight with Fullmer was the pre cursor that softened him up and eventually led to his death at the hands of Emille Griffith in Paret's very next fight for the World Welterweight Championship fought on March 24, 1962. In fact ABC Sports had just developed their instant replay camera at the time of this the 3rd fight between Emille Griffith and Bennie Paret, the director decided to show a helpless Paret being hit by a barrage of clean punches landed on his head as Ruby Goldstein (An otherwise competent boxing referee) stands by transfixed by the action. Watching either Kinescope film Griffith vs Paret 12RDS or Paret vs Fullmer 10 RDS is difficult in light of the wanton punishment that Paret was allowed to absorb.