Can someone explain to me how boxing has "evolved" since the middle the last century

[Willow The Wisp]

No!

Video gaming as well, no.

Let's keep sport athletic.

Golf???

[Willow The Wisp]

- - If you have to ask, you don't deserve to know.

It was a statement, a condemnation of a foolish, non-value add tangential comment. A familiar thing?

Still, you are 100% correct about Basketball and its growth beyond it's humble birth in Springfield, Massachusetts. An honest omission. Thanks for that. Like Electricity, Flight, Electronic com*****g, the Personal computer, the Internet, GPS, the Telephone, Radio, the Lightbulb, the Moving Assembly line, Vulcanized rubber, Motion pictures, Mobile phones, Email, Chemotherapy, Video games, Light emitting diodes, Lasers, Microwave ovens, Radiocarbon dating, Traffic lights, Clasp lockers, Hearing aids, interchangeable parts, the Cotton gin, Computer aided design, Air conditioning, the Liquid fuel rocket, the Inertia shoulder harness reel, industrial robots, 3D printing, photographic film, etc, etc, etc.

Bloody Yanks, ya?

[Willie Pep 229]

Golf???

Isn't that one the classic argument?

Bowling? (Another classic debate regarding athletes.)

Boxing is a sport; prize fighting is a fist fight.

The problem is that the apologists keep trying to make prize fighting a sport by over emphasizing boxing skills. Too much punch counting not enough respect for effectiveness.

Stop apologizing for the brutality. Stop trying to BS yourself into believing prize fighting is a sport. You're ruining the game.

Split Decisions! What nonsense.

[Ivich]

Isn't that one the classic argument?

Bowling? (Another classic debate regarding athletes.)

Boxing is a sport; prize fighting is a fist fight.

The problem is that the apologists keep trying to make prize fighting a sport by over emphasizing boxing skills. Too much punch counting not enough respect for effectiveness.

Stop apologizing for the brutality. Stop trying to BS yourself into believing prize fighting is a sport. You're ruining the game.

Split Decisions! What nonsense.

Pro Boxing is a business, as is Football.

[Rockin']

Pro Boxing is a business, as is Football.

A business that specializes in fist fighting.................Rockin'

[Marchegiano]

Boxing is a freak show attraction. Not all the freak show attractions were derogatory to the performers. Boxing's just one of those.

If throwing balls at a target to dunk a clown got like ****** popular it too might be called a sport, business, event, etc. Still just a fair game.

World's Strongest Man, Miss Universe, Mister Olympia, stunts, etc. ... freak shows that got ****** popular. Like boxing.


Prize fight, sometimes, sport, sometimes, business, sometimes. Sometimes dudes do **** for legacy instead of money. Sometimes dudes are just brawlers. Sometimes they're sparring more than fighting, but always, freaks.

[Willow The Wisp]

Isn't that one the classic argument?

Bowling? (Another classic debate regarding athletes.)

Boxing is a sport; prize fighting is a fist fight.

The problem is that the apologists keep trying to make prize fighting a sport by over emphasizing boxing skills. Too much punch counting not enough respect for effectiveness.

Stop apologizing for the brutality. Stop trying to BS yourself into believing prize fighting is a sport. You're ruining the game.

Split Decisions! What nonsense.

Semantics in any language. I call em' da fights.

[Willow The Wisp]

Pole Dancing. Performance art? Sport? Dazzling skills.

[QueensburyRules]

Golf???

- - Mikey often accorded the worlds best athlete ain’t anywhere close to being the best athlete playing golf in spite of spending a million on lessons.

Not even the best BB player with a pro baseball career.

[kara]

I'll tell ya how - moved off TV networks and now on streaming platforms.