“Memory Loss and Slurred Speech”- Jake Paul admits he was advised to give up boxing after his very first year (Video)
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Boxing is a very dangerous and risky sport. The chances of getting irreparable damage are pretty high. Ask Jake Paul about that! Paul has been professionally boxing for about 2 years now and has been making his name, either by hook or crook. He is infamous for calling out many legendary boxers and has a rather embarrassing nickname, ‘The Problem Child.’
But he carries the name like a medal and strives ahead to call out and challenge stronger opponents. But as mentioned earlier, injuries are very prominent in boxing and some of them, permanent. Paul is a victim of such injuries. Ever since he took on the likes of Ben Askren and Tyrone Woodley, he has felt like he has got some internal damage.
In an interview with Graham Bensinger, he said that he has seen symptoms like slurred speech, memory loss, and many others, pointing towards the fact that he might be having concussions. He said, “I notice it in conversations with like, with my girlfriend or friends, like, not remembering something that I should be able to remember that happened a couple of days ago, sometimes in my speech, where like every hundredth or two hundredth word, I’ll mess up or, like, slur. Which I didn’t do that before.”
Jake Paul doesn’t entirely blame boxing for his internal injuries though, the other reasons might shock you
Jake Paul thinks that boxing isn’t solely to be blamed for the concussions and internal brain damage done to him. He says that playing football in his childhood days might also be the cause of these injuries. Absorbing the full-on impact of the players crashing into someone can be very dangerous.
Watch Jake Paul’s interview with Graham Bensinger in this video:
“The doctor told me there’s a lack of blood flow from the concussions I had when I would play football, into certain areas of my brain, one of them being the frontal lobe which is partially memory,” Paul said. “After my first year of boxing, I went back and it was worse.”
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