Comments Thread For: The Beltline: There are now even scarier and sadder ways for a boxer to fade out

[BoxingUpdates]

With bare knuckle boxing, influencer boxing, and slap fighting all on the rise, It has never been tougher for a boxer to retire than it is today, writes Elliot Worsell.
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[ScrollPeruser]

Elliot Worsell could give Diçkens and Tolstoy a run for their money!

[JeBron Lamez]

Bruh it isn't the other sports' fault that fighters don't know when to quit.

If you can wrangle a pro boxing license then someone will pay you to fight if you say you want to. Even if these shiddy other combat sports didn't exist, fighters like Rankin would still be fighting past the point it has become uncomfortable for most people to watch them do it.

Mr Worsell says "we are seeing an attempt to minimise what it takes to both box and appreciate boxing" but we are not seeing an attempt to minimise anything.

It's worse than that, global pro boxing has undermined itself into a position where its own conceptual framework & indeed some of it's operational framework can be hijacked by all kinds of chancers.

But the chancers are not trying to minimise what it takes to box at the highest sporting level of pro boxing, they're just hustlers successfully running plays by putting on independent events & essentially lowering the bar for entry as a fighter. The two are not the same.

it is not on BKFC to become less dangerous for washed boxers, it is not on Power Slap to become less reetaarded.

It's on pro boxing to become more compelling & it's on fighters to quit before they go too far.

[TonyRespectful]

Elliot, unfortunately I think most people just don't care. Empathy is actively derided these days. The Marquis of Queensbury came up with boxing as an alternative to the mma of his day. Now in many aspects we humans have devolved and "human ****fighting " is bigger than ever. The positive thing is that boxing looks civilized in comparison.

[PNUT901]

Good article , well done Elliot.

[landotter]

Bruh it isn't the other sports' fault that fighters don't know when to quit.

If you can wrangle a pro boxing license then someone will pay you to fight if you say you want to. Even if these shiddy other combat sports didn't exist, fighters like Rankin would still be fighting past the point it has become uncomfortable for most people to watch them do it.

Mr Worsell says "we are seeing an attempt to minimise what it takes to both box and appreciate boxing" but we are not seeing an attempt to minimise anything.

It's worse than that, global pro boxing has undermined itself into a position where its own conceptual framework & indeed some of it's operational framework can be hijacked by all kinds of chancers.

But the chancers are not trying to minimise what it takes to box at the highest sporting level of pro boxing, they're just hustlers successfully running plays by putting on independent events & essentially lowering the bar for entry as a fighter. The two are not the same.

it is not on BKFC to become less dangerous for washed boxers, it is not on Power Slap to become less reetaarded.

It's on pro boxing to become more compelling & it's on fighters to quit before they go too far.

All you need to do is do a search for Ali's last fight to understand this not a new thing. The appeal of a sport where violence is the only purpose has existed since humans first got organized. I mean seriously, tough man contests were thriving in back rooms and in local arenas when I was a kid, and all you had to do was pay a fee and sign a waver for the opportunity to throw hands and try to earn the cheap trophy and low end cash for winning. However, it is very, very true that as social media has grown, the stoopidity has as well. It was only last year a friend told me about this slap thing, and I truly thought he was making it up.

But I agree with the highlighted part of JeBron above.... The lowest common denominator will always show up for the most moronic events. It is on the participants to use more common sense. If these "sports" (using the word lightly) can thrive in the same back alleys as the tough man contest used to, all I can do is not support it.