The game of fists has at all times existed, and over the centuries it has reworked, however the actuality is that it was at all times a wild one, brutal, just about inhuman and harboring vital threat to the contestants. There have been primary guidelines of the game, however for a few years there was nothing close to the bodily integrity of the members, their security and well being.
When my dad accepted the Presidency of the World Boxing Council, he did so conditionally on beginning a revolution and transformation, to implement security measures, adjustments to the rules, and struggle towards all varieties of abuse of energy and discrimination.
In 1978, a analysis course of started with UCLA hospital in Los Angeles. The million {dollars} the WBC donated to research the results that boxing has on the mind produced preliminary outcomes that led the US authorities to donate 50 million extra to proceed these research.
The ultimate end result led to the implementation of a protocol that’s used in the present day in all emergency rooms of hospitals on the earth, the therapy of accidents within the armed forces, and all subsequent actions associated to the difficulty.
In boxing, these discoveries led the WBC to alter many guidelines, primarily lowering world championship fights from 15 to 12 rounds and weighing-in a day earlier than, and never on the very day of the struggle, amongst many others.
Necessary medical research have been applied for all boxers from the second they apply to acquire a boxer’s license, annual exams for its renewal, necessary particular exams for individuals who struggle in world championship fights, exams and evaluations the week of the struggle, the day of the weigh-in, and earlier than coming into the ring, in addition to after the struggle.
Boxers are brave warriors, prepared to get into the ring it doesn’t matter what, and that’s exactly why the duty to guard them falls on the governing our bodies of the game and the boxing commissions the place the fights happen. We endeavor to guard their well-being. We will all take delight that collectively now we have saved numerous lives and have improved the standard of lifetime of fighters after their years within the ring. So many medical doctors, commissioners, and members of the boxing trade have labored passionately to make boxing safer yr after yr.
The WBC has organized three World Medical Congresses and numerous regional conferences in lots of international locations world wide. It’s there the place specialists meet, the place displays on common and particular matters are introduced. Seminars are held, data is shared, and case research and steady work plans are decided to proceed investigating, evaluating, and discussing to regulate and refine guidelines, implement protocols, and create education schemes to embody all members of the trade. Federations, commissions, medical doctors, trainers, promoters, and naturally the boxers themselves are an integral a part of this.
Final week, the third nationwide medical congress of the FECOMBOX was held in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico, in coordination with the WBC. It concerned 120 medical doctors from all through the Mexican Republic. This assembly was on the Pueblo Mágico, and achieved probably the most profitable outcomes.
Areas of nice significance have been mentioned, together with:
· Medical suspensions, periodicity, efficient communication between entities and their necessary nature
· Psychological well being in boxing
· Administration of medical providers earlier than, throughout and after the playing cards
· Obligations of promoters when presenting boxing playing cards
· Diet and Hydration
· Accidents, cuts, consideration to ringside conditions
· Weight, weighing and whole administration.
One of the vital necessary platforms for the administration of medical data of every fighter was introduced. BOXMED, developed by Conexión Fácil and its president Andrew Kluger, is an utility that’s obtained on the cellphone by creating the profile of everybody. This platform is supported by a novel system that permits the administrator to be the help for boxing commissions, organizations, and primarily for the boxer.
The primary merchandise to take care of at BOXMED is weighing. It would take time, however the aim is for all boxers to report, by way of a video on the platform, their precise weight as soon as a month, thus monitoring that they don’t have to lose an excessive amount of weight within the countdown to a struggle, in addition to monitoring their weight to attempt to make them conscience of the quantity of weight that’s placed on when there isn’t a struggle scheduled.
The knowledgeable testimonies of Guadalupe Pintor, Rafael “Bazooka” Limon, and Tomas Rojas, all former WBC world champions, offered necessary data and clearly centered and reaffirmed the matters that have been mentioned.
The Congress proceedings will probably be additional developed to function a piece plan to realize uniformity on the nationwide degree, and among the matters will probably be taken to the WBC Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in order that the medical committee can search worldwide implementation.
