Does anyone ever just sit back and let it occur to them just how weird the sport of boxing is? Punching someone else in the head until they're incapacitated? It's really rather bizarre if you think about it.
It's wierd in todays views, but if you think about it, as a sport it's far more pure then basically anything else.. I mean it's a competition where you want to prove you are the better man. What better way to do that then to ko the other guy using the most lethal things you posses? Your hands.
Other sports are games. Things you do to prove your dominance in a round a bout way instead of just getting down and dirty and doing what your instincts are telling you.Throw a punch.
Anything can be thought of as weird and ridiculous if you over think it.
My motto is always fuck it, so nothing seems weird or crazy to me.
but to answer your question, yes it weird I not being a boxing historian so I dont know the story of how boxing came to be but just wondering/Thinking out loud, I bet it was pretty interesting how boxing evolved to this sport we all love from maybe a street fight etc etc.
Football is a sport which consists of 11 guys vs 11 guys trying to kick a ball into an opposing goal.
Basketball is about guys trying to throw a ball into a basket.
I guess all sports could be considered as weird.