Fighter Overestimates Himself and Pays For It

Pride goeth before the fall.
articiansays...

Heh, evidently his opponent doesn't pack much force, but every fighter should know it doesn't take much if you get hit right on the button. On the chin or in the nose, there's a nerve signal there that avalanches straight into your brain if it gets tagged. Heh.

grintersays...

>> ^artician:

Heh, evidently his opponent doesn't pack much force, but every fighter should know it doesn't take much if you get hit right on the button. On the chin or in the nose, there's a nerve signal there that avalanches straight into your brain if it gets tagged. Heh.


I think it has more to do with the leverage provided by the chin causing the head to whip around quickly, thereby causing the brain to smack around inside the skull like Jello salad in a piñata.
..what? didn't your mom stuff the piñata with Jello salad?

MonkeySpanksays...

It's good to see the ref turn the unconscious guy immediately on his side in case his tongue is blocking his air passage. Maybe I just have never noticed that before, but that was the right thing to do.

SFOGuysays...

Chin blow carries mechanical force from mandible directly to the skull with no soft tissue shock absorption along the way--and the direct mechanical force of the blow translates to fore-and-aft movement of the skull WITHOUT any rotation absorbing the energy---skull imparts blows force directly to soft tissue of the brain as the inertial mass of the brain leaves it standing in place, being sloshed through the normally cushioning layer of cerebral spinal fluid to make direct mechanical contact with the inside of the skull (albeit through the layers of the pia, mater and dura) ----forebrain and probably including midbrain structures---and then whipsaws backwards with a contra-coup impact on the back the brain as the head snaps back. (occiput/visual centers)

The mechanical impact of the brain tissue on the inside wall of the brain probably causes (now I'm guessing, but it's an informed guess) the neurons to respond to the blow with a mass ionic depolarization/electrical potential trigger---and concussion.

If he's only averagely unlucky, he'll also have a intra-cerebral/parenchymal micro bleeding---and if he's really unlucky, he'll keep getting in that ring and he'll end up like the NFL players with serial concussions or like Muhammed Ali. A demented, Parkinsonian cripple.

Don't get hit in the head.

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