Talk:Dementia pugilistica
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Is it confirmed within the scientific/medical community that Muhammad Ali's parkinsonism is attributible to dementia pugilistica?
I would also like to suggest a merging/linking of this page with the boxing page, as it would encourage some proponents of boxing to provide a balanced review of this page.Reaper Man 04:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)Reaper Man
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Is Leon Spinks afflicted with this condition? I've heard interviews with him and his speech pattern appears to be affected, but I don't know if that implies a chronic neurologic condition. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 152.133.6.2 (talk) 14:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
Ali has parkinson, it is true that many feel that his parkinsons is largley due to boxing. but that is still not dementia pugilistica, the same goes for freddy roach, who has parkinsons, but not demntia pugilistica....that is NOT Dementia pugilistica...also i can find no other documentation that jack dempsey suffered any major mental decline. Dempsey died at the age of 88...and from what i can find he was lucid up to the end...but even if their was some mental deteration, it would be diffcult to pin that down to pugilistic dementia.
I have to agree with the above author. I've read quite a bit about Jack Dempsey and this is the first time I've ever seen anyone claiming that he suffered from dementia as he got older. What was the source for this point in the original article? Orton992000 20:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
- I removed mention of Roach and Ali because they have Parkinson's. If someone has a cite that they have dementia pugilistica then by all means restore this. Also, I removed Dempsey and Meldrick Taylor from the list. As mentioned above, there's no evidence that Dempsey had it. And while Taylor is suspected of having it, I don't know of any conclusive evidence that he does. So it is improper to put him on here without a source stronger than some editor's assumption that he does.MKil 17:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)MKil
Am I the only person who has heard this used to describe someone who is tired and having trouble functioning? one can be "punch drunk" after working a 20 hour day, for example. Anyone feel that this should be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.248.119.33 (talk) 20:45, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
