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Its not the promoters job to check for these credentials, the id and physical. The promoters job is to get the venue lined and organize everything that goes with the show, including matching bouts. But just because the bouts were made by the promoter does not mean the fight will go through. If it is judged to be an un safe match it will not be made. Amatuer boxing is VERY serious about safety. To write on this site that it lacks in checking for proper health and identification is so wrong. It is the chief of officials or another official with proper training who check the passbooks, ala I.D. It is the physician who checks EVERY fighter before they step into the ring. Please watch who you knock with saftey, the USA/ABF deserves no words such as yours as saftey is the MAIN ingredient in a properly run show in the USA/ABF............Rockin' :boxing:
Just going by my experience, boxing may be different. I should have said which sport, don't get yer panties in a twist.
I was just at a show 2 months ago and the promoter asked my name, shook hands and had me jump on the scale, that was it.
Not every sanctioning body is ran the same as the ABF.
The ISCF has rules on fighter safety the same as the ABF but not all promotions use their sanctioning.
Checking a fighter before a fight Is no substitute for a complete physical and neurological test. There's not a lot of tests you can run on site. The point I was trying to make was that it's the fighter's responsibility to get the proper medical tests.
There has been no deaths in MMA but once there is they'll be a bandwagon of politicians trying to get their name in the paper by banning the sport. You won't see anyone trying to ban cars and people die in them every say. Kids get paralyzed and killed in high school contact sports every year but they keep wrestling and boxing out of the schools because they're "dangerous". Other sports are more accepted so injuries and even deaths are just wrote off as freak accidents where as combat sports are considered "unsafe". Even though we have statistics proving how safe combat sports (boxing mma wrestling) are, stories like this will always set us back. MMA is illegal in a lot of states because politicians won't take the time to learn what the sport is all about. Ignorance is what hurts us the most.
I can't see why women bother boxing. Nobody is going to watch to any extent at all. Why would they? They average guy can beat the crap out of just about all of them.
This has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read, and I've posted at sherdog. I guess you think other women's athletics are just a "Novelty, fad, whatever" I guarantee I can find hundreds of women fighters that could make you cry like a little girl. I've seen women's MMA matches and they go at it just as hard as the men.
You're probably one of those guys who say shit like "boxing is a science" and "I love the sport" so why should it matter the gender of the fighters if they're competing in the exact same sport with the same passion for the game?
do we need a better physical before boxing
At age 34, and I know cause I fight and I'm in my mid 30s, you should have an EKG, MRI, CAT, complete physical, etc done before you fight. Unfortunately, most amateur promoters don't even check your ID much less ask for a physical. It's up to the fighter to make sure you're in good health. Even with all of that, some things you don't know about until it's too late.
Baby seal or anything that makes people go awwwww when they see it.
I wouldn't do it for me but for the ugly animals who get no love. You never se anyone walk up to a baby aligator and go awwwwww, no it's always those damn seals. Well now it's time to ugly them up a little. Let them know how it feels!!!!!!!!!!!!