Dr. Joe McKeever:

Absolutely. In my own capacity, of the 753 fights I have done, I have organised a scan of any boxer that ever was knocked out. It was not always an MRI scan but could have been a computed tomography, CT, scan. However, quite often nowadays, MRI scanning is employed. One must remember that the rules in boxing regarding concussion, for example, were written in the 1970s when such scans did not exist. The radiology and the safeguards are evolving and improving all the time and therefore these rules will evolve. As they do, there probably will be a new mandatory radiological test, which I believe would transcend boxing and would apply to any sport, be it football or rugby. In other words, if one is concussed, one is concussed and if it is the case that the best test to diagnose the level of concussion is a radiological test, that should be applied across the board to all the sports here.