Boxing: Down For The Count
The tenth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines boxing as
"the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport." I could be
mistaken, but there is a certain emphasis placed on the idea that boxing is
practiced as a sport. It is rather ambiguous. Is boxing a sport to begin with?
Is boxing something else that is just practiced as a sport? Is it, can it, or
should it be practiced as something else rather than as a sport? Maybe I am just
making too big a deal out of a simple definition here. Nevertheless, this simple
definition of boxing gives rise to one question we should all take some time to
answer: should boxing be practiced as a sport? Examination of ...
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other. [t]hey are two closely matched
athletes seeking, through the use of such skills an footwork, timing, accuracy,
punching, and feinting, to determine who is the better man in the ring" (Farley
26). Unfortunately, dead boxers tell a different story. A study on dangerous
contact sports conducted by Patrick Malone of the Knight Ridder News Service in
1980 revealed that from 1970 to 1978 in America, there was an average of 21
deaths per year among 5,500 boxers, or 3.8 deaths per 1,000 participants,
compared to college football's 0.3 deaths per 1,000 and high school football's
0.1 deaths per 1,000 (Sammons 247). Another more recent study conducted by the
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia revealed that
361 deaths have occurred in the ring worldwide since 1945 (NHMRC 22). Deaths and
serious injury suffered in boxing contests reveal only a small percentage of the
potential for danger. Unfortunately, the damaging effects of the "sport" are
cumulative and ...
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which victory is obtained by rendering the opponent injured, incapacitated,
defenseless, and unconscious, can be quite hazardous to your health.
Although the extreme physical hazards of boxing is, in my opinion, reason enough
to abolish the "sport", perhaps a more important reason is the fact that boxing
just does not belong in modern society. It is surely one of the supreme
anomalies of our time. Modern society is supposedly against violence. We
constantly hear about controlling violence on television, violence in music, and
violence in movies. Large segments of society would want to see guns banned.
There are strict laws that protect wives and children who are victims of
domestic ...
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