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Anonymous08/10/25, 22:26No.240046
>hard sparring
>more than 4x a year
Couldn't be me!
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Anon08/10/25, 22:46No.240049
Yeah, really tragic. Honestly, unless you're intending to go am/pro, I see little to no value in hard sparring. Obviously you need some sparring just to put shit together and to get a feel for timing/distance, etc. Anyone who's pushing it as some kind of "you gotta know what it's like to get hit," bullshit is a retard. That's what amateur matches are for. If you're just a hobbyist or learning for self-defens, I would even say that just doing drills with someone on mits is good enough.
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Anon08/12/25, 06:03No.240120
>Anyone who's pushing it as some kind of "you gotta know what it's like to get hit," bullshit is a retard.
You need to condition your body to not freeze up when it feels pain, or else you'll be like all those Chinese Kung Fu masters that got rocked by Xu Xiaodong. They knew all the stances, but when the first punch landed on them, they had no idea what to do.
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Anon08/12/25, 15:22No.240140
Sparring 6-12 rounds once a week isnt going to result in CTE. And you would be a 10x better fighter than if you didnt
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Anon08/13/25, 02:31No.240163
There is no acceptable level of head trauma
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Anon08/14/25, 11:39No.240253
Is there anything scarier in this world than going the distance?
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Anon12/09/25, 18:33No.250101
If you don't like sparring then don't spar, it's that simple. If you want to test yourself knowing that you're going to get hit in the head, then go for it. Boxing's not for everyone.
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Anon03/31/26, 02:12No.258705
They died specifically from sparring? Wtf, how?
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Anon03/31/26, 22:11No.258801
All the uproar about boxing deaths is based on emotionalism rather than rational reasoning. People have crunched the numbers, and there have been less than 500 fatalities since the 1950's, and that's out of millions of bouts. A disproportionate numbers are also from before 1983, which is when they tightened up a lot of safety regulations. Since 2000 there's about 1-2 fatalities per year, on average. Being a pizza delivery driver is probably more dangerous than being a boxer.
Two fighters dying on the same card is a complete freak statistical anomaly, and as unfortunate as it is, it's not really representative of anything.
It doesn't even relate to sparring, anyway. Dying from subdermal hematoma because you got walloped for 12 rounds straight by a pro boxer is a completely different ball game than playing patty cake at 30% intensity at your local gym Muay Thai gym.
Also if you want a real redpill, the clinical evidence we have for CTE even existing in the first place is very poor, let alone its prevalence.
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Anon04/17/26, 03:25No.259948
This is the subhuman process I go thru:
86% Light - Low Med - Med
14% Heavy (Rare Heavy Day/Survival)
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Anon05/03/26, 21:13No.261108
Hard to the body, touch to the head, simple as