Letter: Hammergran shouldn’t honor dangerous boxing

Thursday, Jan. 30, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

Further, it is particularly disturbing that a neurosurgeon who admits to having operated on at least five boxers for blood clots in their brains from this barbaric activity would invite former boxers, including some with permanant brain damage inflicted by this activity, to participate in such a travesty.

The only possible reason to suggest such a festival to honor boxing is that it brings money into the state, but any physician who is willing to allow the endangering of health for the sake of money needs to seriously question his values.

Even the American Medical Association, to which the Lt. Governor belongs, has stongly recommended that boxing be banned due to the serious and frequently irreversible damage that it does to the brains of the young men who participate.

Wallace J. Henkelman, RN

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