Correct. Which is why my argument is, if we're going to keep having blood sports, let them use the drugs to improve their muscle mass to hopefully protect them slightly better from this stuff, improve recovery/rebuild time, and make the game more exciting, surely.

But that would also allow them to hit harder.. and there are no muscles around the brain to protect it from impacts or prevent it from moving. I don't see how that would make brain damage less likely.

Adding mass will increase the force. That's the opposite of what would protect the players.

A better solution would be weight limits and stricter controls on doping, not looser.

Boxing is not as popular as it was.

Yeah, but that has to do with MMA not brain injury.

How long has boxing been fading? When did MMA begin?