Is boxing a cruel sport: ( Archived) (28)

I think so but I am in a bit of a dilemma because my dad was a professional boxer, welterwight champion for those of you who know boxing. I saw him box a couple of times when I was a child and I really only remember being worried about him but now I have formed opinions about the sport partly based on reported head injuries sustained by boxers and a recent fatality. My dad's view is that sport is often the only way poor kids can pull themselves out of the gutter. What do you think?

Boxing is a great sport sport..One of the only ones I really enjoy watching..

it is a dangerous sport, but I don't think in our time, that it is a way out of poverty.

People go in it aware of the dangers, and the excitement of it.

I am a fan of boxing and this short girl used to take boxing lessons too.


PS:Football is just as dangerous.


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Yes I agree that other sports are dangerous but I still think that kids today without any academic skills can aspire to untold fame and wealth through sport.

Many young people with out academics do aspire to to wealth through sports, the chances of them being chosen for the matches, or any other sport is very slim, the competition is strict, just as it would be for any other way of pursuing money, or job.

Nope!!

I believe that at times boxing can be a cruel sport. But, it doesn't have to be. I don't know what recent fatality you're referring to, but I remember watching one. Many times in boxing, trainers and promotors who are seeking to pad the record of a fighter whom they favor, will deliberately schedule a fight against a lessor opponent. They send the lessor man into the ring to get beat. They don't want him to win. Now, if a man were to volunteer for such a fight that's one thing. I mean, I'd do it if the money was right. I'm strong enough to take it I think. It's when they don't tell you that it becomes cruel. As was the case of the fight I saw. It took place in Mexico. A world class fighter vs. some chump from the local gym. They sent the guy in round after round, they told him, "You're doing great! Keep it up." Round after round, he got pummeled. They didn't throw in the towel. The referee didn't stop the fight, and the guy died later on that night. When a man is deliberatly butchered, that is cruel, and it is not sport. I mean, you wouldn't schedule you kid's t-ball team to play the Yankees, and expect it to be entertaining. With all that said....Yes,I like boxing. I like it a lot.

Any sport where the main objective is to render the opponent unconscious, and at times near death, is in reality barbaric and base. But like so many other things in life, we accept it and embrace it. Paws

Well Leo there are a lot of sports like that...for example football and yes even the great Canadian game of hockey..I see much more injury in hockey that I ever have in boxing. Broken necks lost teeth ect...