Social Media Boxing Star, Jake Paul Has Memory Loss and Slurred Speech, Won’t Retire, Fights Saturday
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Tampa Bay, Florida (December 17th, 2021)–YouTube social media star Jake Paul, ahead of his upcoming rematch with Tyron Woodley, has gone public with the revelation two years into his boxing career he is suffering from slurred speech, memory loss, and mood swings two years into his professional boxing career, and will not retire even though doctors have already advised him to stop boxing altogether. Paul, a 2-0 cruiserweight, will fight a rematch with Woodley on Saturday, December 18, 2021, at Amalie Arena, in Tampa, Florida.
The 24-year-old YouTuber opened up about his symptoms in an interview with journalist Graham Bensinger ahead of his fight against Tyron Woodley.
“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,” he explained.
“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,” he added. Paul claimed he’s had anywhere between 20 and 30 concussions in his lifetime, though “it’s really hard to say” exactly how many. Some of them, he noted, came from playing football as a kid and taking “lots of hard hits,” but many of them have come in the short time since Paul began pursuing boxing.
Paul had his brain scanned before entering the boxing profession. A doctor informed Paul he already had a lack of blood flow in certain areas of his brain due to concussions he sustained while playing youth football in his formative childhood and teenage years. one of the impacted areas is the frontal lobe, which deals with memory ability (or loss), and emotional issues (detrimental responses to be attributed to contact sports).
Like former World Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, to combat the symptoms he is experiencing, Paul is ingesting psychedelics such as toad venom to arrest the symptoms of brain injury and mood swings. The statements by Paul raise issues as to whether or not social media stars should be allowed into boxing, MMA and contact sports in grudge matches or social media pairings, and to what degree the prefight physical was conducted on Paul. By his own description, there are enough issues raising medical red flags to give rise as to why Paul is being allowed to continue boxing in the first place. Different states have different rules and regulations regarding the prefight physical. Even if Paul passed the requirements of the prefight physical in the State of Florida, by his own admission he should be retired if he is suffering from an accumulation of brain injuries from football and boxing to cumulative effect.
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