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To: Know your rights
Yet you'd keep unsafe professional boxing legal until it is shown that it *can't* be done safely.

It can be done safely. It is done safely in the Olympics. Geez, I always get the short bus posters.

344 posted on 05/28/2004 11:36:12 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
It is done safely in the Olympics.

Wrong. Ready to ban it now? (And where's the evidence that condomed porn, such as is practiced by the 'elite' porn producers, is unsafe?)

Acute Traumatic Brain Injury in Amateur Boxing

Erik J. T. Matser, PhD; Alphons G. H. Kessels, MD; Muriel D. Lezak, PhD; Jaap Troost, MD; Barry D. Jordan, MD

THE PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE - VOL 28 - NO. 1 - JANUARY 2000

[...] CONCLUSION: Participation in amateur boxing matches may diminish neurocognitive functioning despite the use of headgear. The neurocognitive impairment resembles cognitive symptoms due to concussions.

350 posted on 05/28/2004 11:46:21 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: AppyPappy
Geez, I always get the short bus posters.

Hilarious!

362 posted on 05/28/2004 12:07:19 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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