Month: November 2023

Quebec Coroner Calls For Neuropsychological Testing For Fighters After Teenage Boxer Killed in Bout

November 29, 2023

In 2021 a teenage boxer died following a bout in Montreal. The boxer, Jeanette Zacarias Zapata, competed in Quebec just a few months after suffering a TKO loss in Mexico. In the Quebec bout she was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital where she died 5 days later. A coroner’s report, published this week, speculated … More Quebec Coroner Calls For Neuropsychological Testing For Fighters After Teenage Boxer Killed in Bout

Study – Breaking Down Boxing KO/TKO Rates By Sex, Weight Class and Experience

November 26, 2023

A study was published this month in the Journal The Physician and Sports Medicine drilling down into the KO/TKO rates in boxing based on various factors. In the study, titled “Knockout rates across the states as a way of predicting injury and knockout based on fighter sex, weight, or experience” the authors reviewed 6 months … More Study – Breaking Down Boxing KO/TKO Rates By Sex, Weight Class and Experience

Nevada Loosens Anti Doping Thresholds

November 16, 2023

This week the Nevada Athletic Commission voted to loosen anti doping thresholds for several banned substances. These include SARM’s, GW1516, DHCMT, Clomiphene and Epitrenbolone. In short they shifted these prohibited substances into the ‘threshold’ category meaning that testing positive for these substances in and of itself is not an anti doping failure so long as … More Nevada Loosens Anti Doping Thresholds

RCPA Admit CTE is “Caused” By Repeated Brain Rattling

November 8, 2023

Following last years groundbreaking admission by the US National Institute of Health that CTE is in fact ’caused’ by repeated brain rattling another leading medical institution, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia, have just published a Position Statement making the same blunt admission. In short the RCPA note that repeated brain rattling, particularly from … More RCPA Admit CTE is “Caused” By Repeated Brain Rattling