Shane Gillis has a great bit about Connor McGregor in Roadhouse.

He goes, Connor Greger basically played a coked out Connor McGregor in Roadhouse.

And Shane does like a Connor impression, so it's fucking hilarious.

He's like, ah, fucking, I mean, he's, he likes coke.

But I think there's another issue to talk about.

A lot of fighters, when they've sustained a significant

amount of damage over the course of their career, and there's no way to not get that, right?

I mean, we've all seen Connor get beat up and knocked out. We've seen Connor's sparring footage.

He spars pro boxers. He's sparring elite fighters. You're getting hit in the head a lot.

And a lot of fighters, especially towards getting hit in the head a lot.

And a lot of fighters, especially towards the end of their career, turn to drugs.

And I think there's probably like a constant state of discomfort that they live in where their dopamine levels are all fucked up.

Their cortisol levels are all fucked up.

Their bodies just, you're not supposed to get punched in the head a thousand times a year. It's just not supposed to happen. And that's the reality of consistent training. So if you think about consistent training, like say you and me are sparring and we meet at the gym three times a week and we spar three times a week.

And let's say we spar five rounds three times a week, five rounds of five minutes each.

You might hit me 15, 20 times a round.

And then we're doing that three times a week and we're doing that over and over and over again.

And it's not even this is a

thing people say oh you spar light sure sure sparring light is important but subconcussive

trauma to the head is what causes soccer players to get CTE now soccer players are getting CTE

I've bounced a soccer ball.

I played soccer when I was a kid.

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