Boxing Blog Analysis

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of North Carolina when he called for regulations against boxing, confusing it with something, “brutish and inhuman.” However, this didn’t describe the actual sport of boxing; instead these words described gouging in the Southern backcountry (Riess, 64). This confusion so clearly illustrates this public misconception of boxing because it distinguishably confuses the brutality inherent in gouging to with boxing. This misconception is one of the reasons that even still today some cannot distinguish between boxing and fighting or brutality.
It is not surprising to think of some of the misconceptions that people held in the time period, as even in matches that were considered boxing matches this “science” was not present and we see brutality and excess unfold. There was an incident in 1842 where a boxer was killed in the ring after nearly three hours of battle (Riess, 57.) This incident shows how fine the line between boxing and brutality really is, and drives home the idea that it is ...

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