Is boxing the worst sport for crowd trouble?

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

Football violence has been back in the UK press in the last couple of weeks for mindless thugs fighting at and outside matches (an idiot, welfare scrounging Newcastle fan punched a police horse ffs) and when walking around my town about a month ago I saw a gang of morons get arrested just as they were about to smash up a pub.

Now, what about boxing? Every time I watch a fight on TV I seem to see people at ringside turning around to look at trouble in the crowd and a lot of posts I read on here say that fighting in the crowds is expected at an event.

Is boxing worse than football? What about other sports?

[Cubanborn87]

lol i always wondered wtf was up when i all of a sudden see the crowd turn around during the fight

[Tom Cruise]

I dont think boxing crowds are so bad, you get a few scraps between individuals but generally you dont get the full scale riots you can get outside (and occasionally inside) football games.

Having said that though Martin Murray should probably chill out with the 'Argie' talk...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/boxing/4132253/Boxing-fans-riot-in-Argentina-Filipino-boxer-Johnreil-Casimero-attacked.html

If he somehow did pull off an upset it could get very sketchy for him, especially with the recent Falklands stuff getting in the news again!

[J.Dempsey]

no way man...u being a fellow brit u know footy hooligans are the worst..

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

I'm nearly 30, have been to quite a bit of football (I'd guess probably 150 matches) and the idiots trying to smash up the pub was the first I've ever personally witnessed. There's lots of shouting and bad language at football but in my experience a punch is rarely thrown.

[stefl14]

Yeah it's got better over the years but it depends on which team you support. There is too much security surrounding the matches these days for much violence as the violence is usually between opposing fans. Football is still terrible compared to other sports across the world though and I can't for the life of me think why.

[Tom Cruise]

I'm nearly 30, have been to quite a bit of football (I'd guess probably 150 matches) and the idiots trying to smash up the pub was the first I've ever personally witnessed. There's lots of shouting and bad language at football but in my experience a punch is rarely thrown.

Dont forget that football isnt just in UK



But even if it was its still bad in places:



Maybe its just you hear more about football violence than others but to me it seems football fans are the biggest ****s around

[croz]

Not really. The only "riot" we had in a while was the one in Argentina a while ago. There seems to be football riots every week in the UK and we haven't had anything close that hockey riot in Canada a while ago

[mezoomozaa]

Football is the worst , in Egypt we had 74 of Ultras Ahly killed in a football post-match riot . it was a massacre , one of the most tragic ever .
Check what happens between Lazio & Roma fans in Italy before and after EVERY SINGLE match between them .


it is impossible to happen in a boxing match , the worst won't be more than Bowe-Golota riot .

[HanzGruber]

It's either soccer or American football. Nfl there are so many drunk people