Dr. Joe McKeever:

There is. In 2013, the international organisation adopted the view that headgear should be removed and I agree with this. Incidentally, I came here on a 1,200 cc motorbike and I will put on my helmet when I leave. However, with regard to helmets in boxing, they do not prevent concussion but prevent blood injuries that often look quite dramatic but actually are quite trivial. There is, if anything, a move towards the removal of helmets, which I believe we probably will see in the context of the Commonwealth Games of 2014. Those games just this year have been studied and it was found there were no significantly higher levels of concussion with the removal of helmets.