Boxing Is Bad

[rocco1252]

I love boxing and its athletes, but wow...i just watched Kid diamond vs. Campbell on tape and i gotta say...i was watching with my bud and we were actually getting heated. If refs, trainers, and doctors don't stop fights when needed, boxing is a joke. IM through with boxing if they continue to send boxers to the grave and hospitals with brain damages. Letting legends keep on fighting and taking punishment(i.e., holyfield, RJJ, etc.) is crazy. One sided beatings like the Campbell vs. Kid Diamond fight ain't even entertaining. I don't wanna hear that bull**** about how we are in a hurt sport, because so is football, and basketball. If we wanna watch people get brutally beat, and sent to the hosspital, we are better off watching that bull**** UFC or a real life execution or something. Im not saying that i dislike watching boxers boot it out, but these days, its just getting too brutal and those DUMB**** refs are like ****in machines that don't have common sense. I wanna see a change in our sport.

boxing is left up to the fighter when he wants to quit, unfortunately after time your ability to realize its time to quit is gone. Although in a situation like that or with Holyfield for instance, they should just make a judgement call as well as most fighters. But the difficult thing there is that how can you tell a 37 year old who has been champion and in wars all his career that has no signs of damage (what doctors can see) that he cant do it because he is healthy. Then there's the 48 year old fighter great condition been in many many fights through so many years and is still healthy and allowed to fight despite age and performance.

It's a no win situation for either side. The ref has to make the call when a fight can and cannot go on despite the fact a person is fighting back periodically or non stop but is just being punished and is going to lose anyway on points, it just has to be stopped. But when I think back to the days of Lamotta, Marciano, Ali and all those great fighters, they fought 15 rounds, their knee would touch the canvas after a good shot they would hop right up and without a count continue to fight. Refs back then set the standards for today and unfortunately boxing is boxing and its probably not going to change. Thats what comes along in the sport and it's dealt with and always has been.