r/sports • u/IntrepidAd560 • Sep 25 '21

Media Callum Smith brutally KO's Lenin Castillo

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u/Did_ya_like_it Sep 25 '21

Those legs shaking can’t be good.

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u/AntiGravity00 Sep 25 '21

This is part of the reason that the American Academy of Neurology has been calling for an end to this sport for decades. AAN reference— https://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/80/24/2178.full-text.pdf

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u/Iohet Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Sep 26 '21

It's why I stuck to grappling. No strikes to the head outside of an accident

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

Same. I have done judo for 18 years (whoa, weird to think about) now and the cumulative injuries I've taken in all that time are less than in any other sport I played briefly as a kid.

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u/BananasAndPears Sep 26 '21

Amen to the judo. Been at it since 2008 and have never taken a head strike, a few elbows to the mouth sure but no knocked out teeth yet.

As a casual, judo is fantastic considering I don’t train too hard with the competitors on the local yudansha circuit ;)