Why isn't boxing a school sport?

[VatoMulatto]

That would be cool but won't ever happen. There are so many people that hate boxing and think its primitive so there's no way boxing will be a school sport

[b Murphington]

I presented a paper about this about 6 years ago in college. It was about amateur boxing being implemented in high school and college. I thought since I love boxing I will just write about it and thought how I would've loved to join a boxing team in HS or college. Brought up injury stats for Football and amateur boxing, football had more injuries and concussions. I also said why it's good, brought up things like it teaches discipline, it's even used in US military, it changes troubled people's lives, etc. I talked about the price of joining a boxing gym in NYC, the membership, inner city kids can't afford that. Said how, many of the poor-street-kids-turnt boxers just happened to get picked up by someone who wanted to support them but it's not all fine and dandy for every kid like that. It was a great paper, used power point slides and stuff.

In college I did something similar. It wasn't a persuasion paper or anything. More of a descriptive paper. Describe an experience in depth using a lot of detail. I pretty much described what it's like being at a fight. The atmosphere and excitement, the anticipation of the event. That kind of stuff. General stuff. Got a good grade.

[Graz]

I think it would be a great idea. It should be mandatory gym requirement. Kids today need the discipline and it should prevent them from getting too soft.

[hectari]

Boxing used to be in highschools and was a Collegiate sport for years until someone died in competition and the USA government deemed it too violent for college sports

you can find info it, I think this was the 1960s when it was banned.

At the 1960 NCAA Championships Charlie Mohr, a boxer on the University of Wisconsin–Madison team, collapsed with a brain hemorrhage and died one week later

Before Boxing was banned from the NCAA college sports in 1960, Wisconsin was the Goat college with 8 team championship titles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Boxing_Championship

[-Kev-]

In college I did something similar. It wasn't a persuasion paper or anything. More of a descriptive paper. Describe an experience in depth using a lot of detail. I pretty much described what it's like being at a fight. The atmosphere and excitement, the anticipation of the event. That kind of stuff. General stuff. Got a good grade.

A few classmates approached me after class and told me my paper got them interested in boxing. Including one girl, who had made a paper about bullying. So I did my job lol kind of. I just really wanted to put boxing out there a little bit. Oh I also made an argument for boxing as a self defense sport, being good against bullying. I argued that the whole thing about "telling an adult" will not always be available, there will be a time where you can't tell anyone because you're cornered, and boxing helps to defend yourself in situations like these. I also linked boxing to just all around life, you get dropped in boxing you have to get up and continue going some how, just like in life. Boxing helped give me that mentality.

[pacmanis1]

Kids these days need safe spaces to be protected from words that might be offensive, but yeah, let them get punched in the face.

[repsa]

There used to be college boxing teams. They probably dropped it.

[Graz]

Kids these days need safe spaces to be protected from words that might be offensive, but yeah, let them get punched in the face.

You're right and that's exactly the problem. Parents have coddled their kids so much the boys are turning into girls. Wussification of today's youth. If words hurt their feelings imagine what getting punched in the face will do. Still think it would be a good thing to see in the curriculum.

[Sir_Didymus]

It is here in some schools in the UK. The school I went to always had the option of either playing football, rugby or doing boxing for an hour every 2nd day.

All three had scouts coming out from professional football clubs, rugby clubs and boxing academies which try and recruit members for the GB Olympic teams.

It really depends on which school you go to though. Not all schools have these links to professional clubs and academies, the equipment needed or the appropriate fields or boxing rings along with professionals qualified to teach the sport.

We used to use boxing all the time to settle playground disputes so it's probably a great idea to implement it in all schools. We even had our boxing trainer referee some of these fights which he knew full well why it was even happening in the first place and he was a good sport about it making sure you shake hands and dead the situation once the final bell rings at the end of the 3 rounds we used to box for.

[MOMENTO MORI]

The skill and talent disparity is huge in high school sports. Can't have Tyrone beating little Jimmy to a bloody pulp.