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Pathologists of Lemmy : does most people (36y old, ...) dying from a single punch have a pre-existing condition ? Looks quite odd.
It can happen. Punches to the face, head, and neck are more dangerous than some people realize. I won't say lethality is super common. But if you punch someone in anger, be prepared for serious consequences.
For example, sometimes a sinus collapses, sending bone fragments into the brain from a single hard blow to the wrong place. (I am not a doctor, but this happened to a kid in my home town in the 80s.)
It happens quite often. I'm a paramedic and have responded to scenes numerous times where the patient was only hit in the face once and died. I actually remember, years ago, it happened two shifts in a row in the same parking lot. There was a bar there that commonly had fights outside after it closed. Both times, people told me the person was punched in the face only one time. One of the two he was laying in the grass, so it wasn't even like he bashed his head on the pavement after.
Yeah, I know a couple of stories like this. The one that stuck with me was a bunch of kids who did like a regular unsupervised boxing group. One day, one guy got clocked just right, said he was out, sat down, then collapsed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-nevada-student-dies-after-participating-fraternity-boxing-match-n1284847
~~pretty much the same thing, but not the incident I'm referring to, these were highschoolers~~
edit I re read it, that event was sanctioned by the school wtf
How are combat sports a thing? I've seen so many MMA fights end with a dude getting knocked out then the winner wailing on his lifeless face a few extra times before the ref pulls him off.
Those are trained athletes. These are drunk red necks.
I tried a quick Google for some statistics and didn't dig deep. One of the first results shows 90 deaths in Australia from a single punch in a 2 year span. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36878145/
Yes, but how does training help a knocked out fighter when he receives 3-4 more uncontested blows to his face? Is it because their head is already flat on the mat, and is absorbing less impact from the punches or something?