Watch everyone start talkin **** bout boxing now....

[+= El Jefe=+]

The girl who died in the golden gloves will be on the front page of every website, newspaper, tv, etc. I read it and it was very sad, may she rest in peace..

All of a sudden people die in amateur boxing...out of every 100,000 amateur boxers, there is 1.3 deaths. In football, soccer, basketball, etc. There's 1000 times more deaths...

All of a sudden boxing turns into a sport where all the people die? What the **** is up with that ****...I wish some people would stop talkin **** about it, it's just really pissing me off...

My dad sees it on yahoo when he opens the internet up, then he says u hear a girl died in a boxing fight, then i say ya i know, and he says it's very bad..

I'm sure nobody would be sayin nothin if i was playin basketball..where the deaths are actually more than amateur boxing, and theres stats that back my words up...

There can be ten thousand deaths a year in football and it will still be boxing known as the "dangerous" sport...

I bet more people die walking down the street then in a amateur boxing match..

1.3 out of 100,000..That's just a huge number, i'm sure there is more deaths then that just by walking down the street of my boxing gym..boxing has saved my life and i dunno where i would be without it, it helped me in so many ways that people just can't appreciate that, if i wasn't boxing, what do they want me to do, go drink? go smoke weeD? go shoot up drugs? I'm sure boxing is more safer then all those, and even if there is a slim chance of death of dying in that ring, then i shall take the risks, i'd rather die in the ring then on the streets, i'd rather die like a warrior...

(not saying i'm gonna die, just really pissed off)

One person dies walkin down the street, and nobody says it's dangerous to walk down the street..ONLY BOXING THEY DO, what has this world come to...Thank you for reading what i feel at this moment, i wrote this when my dad starts actin like it's a bad sport cuz of one death....

i agree
they are gonna talk crap
but is the same about everything else tho
who was talking about living will's until the
Schiavo case??

[masterdirector]

it is called Agenda Setting Theory. They tell us not what to think, but what to think about.

The media takes it a step further with Framing...where they do tell us what to think.

[FrankJack]

Man, I live in Texas, and EVERY year I hear about how a kid dies at his school during track practice or football practice. I dunno if this Golden Gloves incident is gonna get blown up around my area (DFW) though, I'll have to peep the papers.

[Stickman]

Well, it's already on Fox News, and they're doing to do an interview with Lady Ali about it....I expect the usual ******* media hype (not from Fox....they're pretty non-biased most of the time) trying to (unsuccessfully) get the sport banned, but I expect the publicity to eventually work to help the sport, rather than hurt it. Any publicity is good publicity, as they say. And even if people tune into fights hoping to see serious injury, they are more/new viewers, making more advertising money, more cash in fighter's pockets, and all in all, a good thing.

[boxernyc]

There are definitely sports that the media has a vested interest in only reporting when something goes wrong. Actually, that is true of the media in general. Steroids in baseball anyone? But the reason this became such a big story is that it was a girl in boxing. Especially after Million Dollar Baby (I won't give anything away for those who haven't seen it yet).
There was a story a while back that made big news too when a kid died running around a track in a plastic suit in 90 degree weather trying to cut weight for his high school wrestling team. That was messed up but it gives people a biased view of wrestling. Most people don't know anything about wrestling and know very little more about boxing, so when all that gets reported is the deaths people think that these sports should get banned. Like someone before mentioned this sport does a lot to help people straigten out their lives. It does a lot for kids on the edge. You will rarely hear about that, you will more likely hear about the Floyd's and the Mike Tyson's the guys who let the fame get to them and think they can do as they please. They rarely talk about the people like B Hops who reformed and became role models for people who follow the sport. Damn I wish I could have his dedication to the sport. It may be an exaggeration but I hear he trains 365 days a year.

Anyways, sorry for the rant. I just had several people e-mail me this trying to convince me to stop boxing and I just didn't reply because they do care for me and I can't get that pissed at them for it.

[Bombardier]

Fact is boxing has been around since the beginning of time. It was one of the original sports in the Ancient Olympic games, in a form not too much different from what you see today. And it will be around long after these other sports have disappeared. The modern poitics and politeness that drag it down are just an illusion. Boxing is indestructible.

[neils7147933]

Have a look at this site:

http://boxingact.org.au/safety.html

Obviously there's not 1000 times more deaths in those other sports that he mentioned, but there are around 100 times more deaths in horse racing, which is a huge difference.

I would say that a boxing death gets at least 1000 times more media coverage than a death in any other sport. When have you heard anyone call for a ban on horse racing?

That was my point. Hyperbole has no place in making an argument like this. It takes away from one's credibility. He probably should have just linked this site or put up a real number.

[neils7147933]

Well, it's already on Fox News, and they're doing to do an interview with Lady Ali about it....I expect the usual ******* media hype (not from Fox....they're pretty non-biased most of the time) trying to (unsuccessfully) get the sport banned, but I expect the publicity to eventually work to help the sport, rather than hurt it. Any publicity is good publicity, as they say. And even if people tune into fights hoping to see serious injury, they are more/new viewers, making more advertising money, more cash in fighter's pockets, and all in all, a good thing.

lol...........

[Bombardier]

That was my point. Hyperbole has no place in making an argument like this. It takes away from one's credibility. He probably should have just linked this site or put up a real number.

I see your point, though I think he was just pissed off and not exactly worried about fact-checking. I wanted to put the link up though so people could have a look at the real numbers.

[Kid Achilles]

Fox News is crap. The most biased station by far. Right before the GOP convention, every other news station on TV had extended coverage of the rallies going on in the city. There were thousands upon thousands of people protesting. What did Fox News have? Some electricians putting up lights inside the convention hall and the brief mentioning of a "few hundred" protestors outside. It was almost surreal, flipping through C-Span, CNN, etc. and seeing the angry mobs and then going to Fox and watching some prominant **********s being interviewed inside the building.

There is a media bias, and it is a ********** one. Well more accurately a corporate one, but since the vast majority of corportations are conservative in their interests, it can be said that the **********s dominate the media.