Midnight Mania! Josh Barnett believes CTE is a think about Phil Baroni’s ‘horrible and extremely tragic’ homicide cost

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The state of affairs doesn’t look nice for UFC and PRIDE veteran Phil Baroni.

Whereas many particulars stay unclear, a report yesterday claims that Baroni stands charged with homicide in San Pancho, Mexico after a dispute along with his girlfriend. Per the primary report, Baroni bloodied up his girlfriend then known as the police, who discovered her unresponsive and battered.

Former UFC champion and basic MMA legend Josh Barnett has plenty of expertise working with “The New York Badass” through the years. In his opinion, Baroni’s present state of affairs is the results of an extended decline probably on account of persistent traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

“The information about Phil Baroni is horrible and extremely tragic as effectively,” Barnett tweeted. “I’ve identified Phil for twenty years plus, and on the first JB Bloodsport present may see that his persona and habits was erratic, displaced, and emotionally he was everywhere, and it was apparent why: CTE.

“It was so robust coping with him on the present that I couldn’t hold reserving him although I needed to. He was an excessive amount of to deal with and so scattered. He blew up at me as a result of I hadn’t used him once more and I blocked him on social media however there wasn’t a lot I may do. Fighters, must take [care] of themselves, and people round them must be vigilant and watchful as effectively. I’ve seen the decline from the person I’ve been pals with for therefore lengthy to the place he was final I noticed him, and it’s heartbreaking. Now with what has occurred in Mexico it’s simply so terrible.”

CTE is a scorching button subject in all of contact sports activities proper now, a difficult-to-detect mind situation trigger by repeated trauma that may trigger fast deterioration. It’s been extensively claimed that MMA is more healthy for the mind than sports activities like boxing or American soccer, however the sport is so comparatively new that some are questioning that concept.

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