Taylor shouldn't be fighting until it's proven his mental state has improved, if it ever does. He could have psychological issues totally removed from boxing, or on the flipside worsened or created by boxing or drugs/alcohol. Valero had his brain bleed, but he was also a raging alcoholic. People who have a history of irrational behavior shouldn't be doing things which further remove them from reality. That's common sense.Datsue wrote: Someone with brain damage won a world title 'cos he was fighting a shot, 40-something Sam Soliman (without his favourite cocktail). However, I appreciate Jermain has a personal history to which his HBO hype-persona of a decade ago bears little relation.
However, the man has suffered massive head trauma, & has continued to get punched in the head since (I shudder to think what's been done to him in sparring).
Weighing those two things, I cannot help but favour the latter as the most likely cause, particularly as he rarely made the headlines for kerrayzeeeeeeee shite like the bath video & shooting his cousin before they had to slice his head open & let the blood that was coming out of his brain out before he turned into a vegetable. Having something like that occur does little, I believe, for one's continuing mental wellness.
Why do you even watch boxing? Yeah... Haymon is such a great guy. Those mismatches he routinely puts on are really to the benefit to the Rod Salkas of the sport.BAD INTENTIONS wrote:Most people don't understand drug issues. To the normal person, they're just people who "like to get high". It's much easier to think that way because 100% of the blame is on the individual.
I'm personally sick of seeing boxing being run in way that ensures brain damage and athletes left in the gutter. Harmon's league seems to be saying all the right things. I hope they follow thru.
Unfortunately, because boxing fans (people) are prone to irrational emotion dictating their logic, we are going to see more hate towards Haymon for doing what EVERYONE else was doing instead of fan support.