Nekota challenges Anderson, but loses due to developing punch-drunk syndrome from his fight with Kamogawa.

Dementia pugilistica (punch-drunk syndrome)

Dementia Pugilistica (Punch-Drunk Syndrome)

Quarterback-concussion syndrome might not yet be a recognized medical term like, say, punch-drunk syndrome, which has its own entry in the Bantam Medical Dictionary.

But, Cope adds, "from the tests that we've done we have established that it is not punch-drunk syndrome -there's no evidence of deterioration of his ability to think.

For example the clinical syndrome of dementia pugilistica, otherwise known as punch-drunk syndrome found in boxers, is highly associated with NFTs and neuropil threads.

Dementia pugilistica, also called "chronic traumatic encephalopathy", "pugilistic Parkinson's syndrome", "boxer's syndrome", and "punch-drunk syndrome", is a neurological disorder which affects career boxers and others who receive multiple dazing blows to the head.

A variant of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) it is also called chronic boxer's encephalopathy, traumatic boxer's encephalopathy, boxer's dementia, chronic traumatic brain injury associated with boxing (CTBI-B), and punch-drunk syndrome.