How CTE is Destroying UFC fighters

[00:00:00]All the MMA fighters. Or all the boxers.

[00:00:03]You know, because like if you really you just tested regular folks or football players.

[00:00:08]Probably it's like football players is probably in the country the most people that have had trauma.

[00:00:13]>> Absolutely.

[00:00:13]>> Cuz you think about high school kids. I mean, they did a study of I forget how many different people, but they found that everyone it was like nine out of 10 had it in every group. Whether it was high school kids, college kids, some level of CTE.

[00:00:30]>> Yeah.

[00:00:31]>> Not just NFL, not just college, high school kids.

[00:00:34]>> This is yeah, well everything everything that we've learned and we know today comparatively. I'm from here I'm going to Florida for the Association of Ringside Physicians. They have their annual conference. And they put on all these different things and we, you know, put together programs for down fighter things and all this stuff. But we know so much more now. Joe, it used to be, you know, I would go and and do a a presentation for them.

[00:00:57]And it was, you know, one of the one of the first things that, you know, when I when I first did it, I asked them a question. And it was a real simple question was, let me ask you this.

[00:01:04]If if a guy gets hit with a shot, boom, and he's out, going down, and he hits the ground, and the fighter comes in and hits him with a shot, is it possible for him to to hit him with a shot and actually wake him back up?

[00:01:18]Everyone from back then, no. That's impossible. All it will do is intensify the effects of the first shot, all this stuff. And it's I took a DVD. I said, let's watch.

[00:01:27]>> [laughter] >> What fight did you use as an example?

[00:01:30]>> Dude, I I had a bunch, you know, and it was a matter of it was trying to show them, hey, all these things that we think are just not true. Okay? When when we have to we have to branch out and start to figure this stuff out a little bit more because it, you know, in boxing it's different because boxing establishes time for me to make decisions. MMA takes that time away.

[00:01:51]Because I have a fighter that is now, instead of walking towards or, you know, trotting towards a neutral corner or something like that, they're trotting towards that person to do more damage to him. And so, you're making that quicker decision. And, you know, we've had too many fights where we have someone that, you know, they're out going down and then hit the ground and they're out and you have to actually wait. You know, I just had, you know, one in last week with Jason Jackson is fighting uh his opponent Jeff Craton. And Craton gets hit and he's going down and I'm going to stop it and I see he starts sitting up and I go, "I got to wait." And it's like, "I don't want to wait. Don't sit up." And he's comes out, boom, hits him, goes out, I stop it. But it's like, those are the ones that you look at and you go, "Man, to understand the way the human body everyone responds differently in certain situations." But, we've learned more as far as the human body will do weird things in traumatic situations and that it is the ability to hit someone and to take those synapses that are connected and to separate them. There is no difference in being able to hit them and putting them back. And they can get snapped the same way. Yeah.

[00:03:03]>> In the Hermes Franca fight, we're in the third round, I catch his leg and he throws a little loopy shot and drops me.

[00:03:08]I have the leg in my hand and I'm just going I can see my face headed towards the canvas. My eyes are wide open, but I can't put my hands in front of my face.

[00:03:15]My face bounces off the canvas, it wakes me up and then I start fishing for legs.

[00:03:19]>> Wow.

[00:03:20]>> just I could see everything, I could hear everything, I just couldn't put my hands in front of my face.

[00:03:25]>> [laughter] >> And my face hits the canvas, I wake back up and he starts jumping on me, I start trying to fish for legs and that's how that goes.

[00:03:31]>> Wow.

[00:03:31]>> And the first thought to go through his head is, "I hope I didn't damage my face because I'm so good looking, right?"

[00:03:36]>> [laughter] >> Jealous.

[00:03:37]>> It's a problem.

[00:03:39]>> This guy's jealous over here.

[00:03:40]>> I told you the whole time >> you violated the stereotype that good looking guys can't fight. They're going to fall apart because they're too good looking.