I believe it. His first amateur fight was in his early teens.A lot of sports about to get the ban hammer when these concussion studies are released.
Lawyers are going to have a field day with shit.
I always wondered why Muhammad Ali is/was the only boxer/athlete in history to be diseased with Parkinson's and nobody else.
Maybe I'm a conspiracy head, but I believe it was a sick motive by Cointelpro to silence Ali or to give him something that'll make him shut up.
Cointelpro was in the business of just shooting you in the head if you were a threat. Way easier to silence our leaders that way, unfortunately.
Not just shooting people in head....
Agent Infiltration
False Propaganda
Media Distraction
Manufactured letters
Phone tapping
Black mailing
Bogus crime allegations
Just to name a few....
Of course. I'm just saying that they took the shortest route to destroy our leaders. Parkinson's doesn't seem like the plan they would take to silence someone.
It's funny that as soon as I made my post I thought the same thing and edited it lol. You got me thinking. Ali had a lot of enemies it's no telling who may have plotted on him. The Nation was infiltrated by agents and Ali's circle was full of snakes...You maybe right. But I definitely don't rule it out neither that Amerikka would stoop so low do some shit like that.
It's just funny to me that no other boxers during Ali's generation got Parkinson's too.
It's funny that as soon as I made my post I thought the same thing and edited it lol. You got me thinking. Ali had a lot of enemies it's no telling who may have plotted on him. The Nation was infiltrated by agents and Ali's circle was full of snakes...
I'm not too familiar with what causes Parkinson's. Is it a link to concussions and/or blunt forced trauma?
You don't need head Trauma for Parkinson's. Just some fucked up luck and bad genes. Michael J Fox has Parkinson's. I think to some Degree Ali's later boxing career may have hurt his health but here is a guy before being stripped of the title that was very fast and hard to hit. I would say he really didn't start taking excessive punishment until after the Thrilla in Manila. There he should have quit. It is possible that Ali had Young Onset Parkinson's disease which in turn caused him to take more punishment in the ring in his later uears. The typical age for Parkinson's is about 60 yrs but Young Onset can strike in the mid 30s-40s. Boxers who end up with dementia pugilistica get that over the course of their career and it gets worse with age but it's not exactly like Parkinson's. I think Joe Frazier was a bit punch drunk as they say. His speech slurred a bit as he got older. Frazier took a lot of shots to the head over the course of his career due to his style and stature.
It's funny that as soon as I made my post I thought the same thing and edited it lol. You got me thinking. Ali had a lot of enemies it's no telling who may have plotted on him. The Nation was infiltrated by agents and Ali's circle was full of snakes...
I'm not too familiar with what causes Parkinson's. Is it a link to concussions and/or blunt forced trauma?
I can believe that... I'm not an expert but when I see videos and interviews of Ali in in the mid to late 70s when he was in his mid 30s his speech seemed like it was slowing down.
Have you ever seen or heard of people that have Parkinson's that was a severe as Ali's?
Somewhere in the late 60's when Ali vocally refused to fight in Vietnam between the ages 22-29, I believe Ali could have been poisoned/hacked before he had his return fight with Joe Frazier in 1971.
The government was doing all types of sick scientific experimentations with black bodies during that time.
Prime examples:
The Tuskegee Experiment
Targeting anti war hippies and black folks with LSD
Prison doctors experimenting with black bodies using dangerous drug enhancements
DNA stealing: Henrietta Lacks
Im not surprised!! You cant take all those shots to the front of your head and not walk away like nothing happened!!! Heavy weight boxer have sum big ass hands and sum power behind them!! Im really surprised boxing and mma are still around!! I guess people need their dose of gladiator fighters!! Anyway, brain injuries aren't to be taken lightly!!
I'll be shocked if the NFL is still around in 50 years. There's just too much we're finding out about the sport.
Bruh, my barber back home is probably about 200lbs and former boxer. Dude ain't boxed in like ten years. But, I saw him fight a dude from my town who was respected for his hands ...
...I saw him lay that nigga the fuck out in about three blows. This dude was about 235-230lbs.
This nigga was a nobody in boxing --
...point is, I can't imagine a damn heavyweight, world class boxer laying them hands on somebody.
I saw Sugar Shane in some recent interviews, and dude talk like he just learned to talk a year ago.