Should boxing be banned?

[Del Coqui]

Boxing, in its own and different form, has been around for many centuries. People love to watch combat sports. If boxing goes away, let it be for the wrong reasons, as in too much corruption in the sport. Fighters get paid good money to risk their lives out there, anyone who can't see that doesn't need to follow the sport. If boxing goes away, maybe MMA or some other sort of combat sport will take over, as it is right now, and its just as brutal as boxing. So in other words, no its shouldn't be banned.

[squealpiggy]

First of all banning boxing sends it underground. A lot of the people fighting will be still fighting but without the opportunity to make real money from it. Proceeds will go straight into the hands of criminal gangsters (no, I'm not talking about Don King!) and the sport will be horrendous. Second thing is that if we banned a sport every time there was a fatality then we wouldn't have any sports left. Maybe chess...

[platinummatt!]

First of all banning boxing sends it underground. A lot of the people fighting will be still fighting but without the opportunity to make real money from it. Proceeds will go straight into the hands of criminal gangsters (no, I'm not talking about Don King!) and the sport will be horrendous. Second thing is that if we banned a sport every time there was a fatality then we wouldn't have any sports left. Maybe chess...

I dont know, some of those pieces are pretty pointy.

But yeh, thats a very good point.

[TheDanniIce]

Boxing was banned in Iceland until 2004, then they allowed olympic boxing.

Professional boxing is still banned here.

[duffgun]

I dont think they should ban boxing, but i think there should be a governing body that looks after boxers when they retire and help them with money and other things, perhaps take a small amount of there purse for each fight and put it into a pension scheme.

[Mishra100]

If boxing should be banned because people can have tragic things happen to them... then these things should be banned too.

Astronauts
Stunt Devils
Car racing
Construction
Everyday Normal Driving

You get the point.

[ben41193]

NOOOOOOO never lol..Boxing is basic human nature it will never be baned and never should

[Easy-E]

Stay in the lounge, Matty.

[BmoreBrawler]

Yes it should, but ill keep watching

[ELPacman]