Casualty in the Ring: Difference between revisions

** Bret Hart got ''seriously'' lucky in this regard. He suffered a concussion so severe that every blow he took to the head afterwards gave him a minor concussion. These days, he can't lift weights, fly in airplanes, or professionally wrestle. It was a miracle he didn't die outright. (This is why his in-ring work is so limited in his more recent WWE appearances.)

* Luis Resto vs. Billy Collins is mired in controversy even after 30 years. Though Collins didn't die as a result of the match, the injuries he suffered in the ring, (which included permanent eye damage) ruined his entire livelihood. And about nine months later he died in a suspected suicide when it appeared that he deliberately crashed his car into a culvert. Then there are the other two reasons the bout is mired in controversy: Resto's trainer removed some of the padding from Resto's gloves, making the punches much more deadly, and according to Resto, gave the boxer crushed asthma pills mixed into his water, increasing his stamina. In other words Resto was able to hit much harder and for far longer than usual, leading to the [http://x22.xanga.com/f5ae163552532280939391/m223805751.jpg severity of the injuries that Collins suffered].

** It's actually been argued by many specialists that fighters drying out to make lower and lower weight classes may cause a fighter to be more prone to taking more sever damage. They point to the low number of ring deaths among heavyweights, who don't have to make weight before fights, even though they punch much harder than fighters in other weight classes. The above-mentioned Duk Koo Kim was reported to have had a monumental struggle to make weight for his title fight against Mancini, in a way understandable because this was a once in a lifetime chance (a title fight against one of America's most popular fighters at the time in Las Vegas on national television) for the obscure Korean boxer. These specialists believe the dehydration to try and make weight reduces the amount of fluid between the brain and the skull that cushions the brain during head trauma.