And you're whining on here every day. Do you enjoy being contrarian/always wrong? His voice sounds very different, and for anyone who actually saw his frequent screen time and interviews back in the day, his speech is slower, more slurred, more stuttering and filler-words . . . it's bad.
Yup. Just did some digging on Nam's past, and boy did that make things appear even worse for him...
It really sucks to even think about it, but I'd say it's likely that Nam was already suffering from a progressed form of CTE
even back in the early 2010's, and what we're seeing/hearing in present time is a manifestation of the degenerative progress in the brain tissue accumulating closer and closer to a point of literal critical mass.
Shit, a lot of examples out there of even non-combat sport athletes (football, hand-egg, hockey etc.)
as young as 16 having well-progressed forms of CTE revealed by postmortem brain autopsies.
Considering the above, I don't even want to imagine how bad the brains of some of the lifelong martial artists like Nam could potentially have it.
Dude has been involved in striking sports since he was 4 years old, started training BJJ + MMA at 16 and started competing professionally in MMA just two years later at 18yo.
He also competed in amateur boxing from 2004 and onward, had a few pro boxing bouts in 2006,
while also taking pro MMA fights on the side without giving his brain any recovery time in between not just the matches themselves, but also in regards the training and sparring involved in both sports.
Returned to professional boxing in 2017 and went 0-4, finishing up his pro boxing career with a total record of 3-8-1.
That's a shit ton of sub-concussive blows to the head right there...