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9 June 2016

1:00 PM

9 June 2016

1:00 PM

Boxing brains

Muhammad Ali died aged 74, after more than 30 years with Parkinson’s Disease. How many boxers suffer brain damage?

— A 1969 study by A.H. Roberts examined 250 retired boxers and found 17% had lesions of the nervous system.

Many had started out in the 1930s, when a professional boxing career could involve over 300 bouts; it’s fewer than 20 now.

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