Why isn't boxing a school sport?

[CinderelliMan]

Dont need kids going brain dead while their trying to learn.

[b Murphington]

Dont need kids going brain dead while their trying to learn.

It doesn't even need to necessarily be sport, just something to spark interest. Like part of the curriculum, learning basics type of stuff. The stance, the training. I would like it to be a sport though. No more dangerous than football really. I don't have the data to back that up, but I took quite a few hard hits in high school football.

[satiev1]

Trying to figure this one out. Hell they already have wrestling, which is combat and from what I can tell, causes the combatants some pain. We all know the dangers of football and I've seen concussions and injuries happen all the time, myself included.

Cuz I feel like most of the backlash for boxing in schools is fear of injuries to kids. Just treat it like they treat wrestling.

I think when I was in high school I proposed this to a gym teacher, and he said it wouldn't happen because everyone would be too much of a pvssy. Lol.

Anyways, let's get boxing into our public schools! If not an official sport, at least make it part of the curriculum or an after school program.

Wrestling is not a combat sport.

[juggernaut666]

Wrestling is not a combat sport.

ANY art that is desighned to control or defeat an opponent consisting of more than two techniques is a form of combat..wrestling is older than boxing and is certainly a form of trying to subdoe someone...sorry but thats a fact.

wrestling is not a combat sport???Well have you ever the olympics??What kind of sport would you label it???lol

[juggernaut666]

I can actually answer this ( as usual) LAWSUITS....

Back in my day teachers were actually allowed to let students settle things with fists and in orderly fashion..i remeber my own older brother knocking out some guy outweighing him by around 90/100 pounds this was late 80's....

you CANT do this anymore ...boxing is a physical sport and injuries happen that inclkude only TWO guys going at it so finger is easy to point ...its NOT a team sport and certainly one needs to go toa real gym if serious not a school.

[-Kev-]

Wrestling is not a combat sport.

Not The Rock vs Stone Cold type wrestling, but Olympic/grappling wrestling is. The wrestling in high schools is a combat sport. You can use wrestling skills in a real fight, if you're a good grappler, it goes a long way for when you need to subdue someone via takedowns, holds, and throws. Wrestling is literally 1 on 1 combat.

[-Kev-]

I can actually answer this ( as usual) LAWSUITS....

Back in my day teachers were actually allowed to let students settle things with fists and in orderly fashion..i remeber my own older brother knocking out some guy outweighing him by around 90/100 pounds this was late 80's....

you CANT do this anymore ...boxing is a physical sport and injuries happen that inclkude only TWO guys going at it so finger is easy to point ...its NOT a team sport and certainly one needs to go toa real gym if serious not a school.

Football has a lot of injuries and concussions too, but it's allowed.

I can give you the real answer: $$$

The money football brings to schools make it so that injuries are overlooked. In reality, amateur boxing can be made so safe for schools, that it is very realistic to say boxing would actually be more safe than football.

[A.K]

Football has a lot of injuries and concussions too, but it's allowed.

I can give you the real answer: $$$

The money football brings to schools make it so that injuries are overlooked. In reality, amateur boxing can be made so safe for schools, that it is very realistic to say boxing would actually be more safe than football.

Injuries are not over looked in football in high school no one would let you play with any type of injury or cuncussion, and same with college. Only in the pros guys will go out there for a paycheck it's on a game to game basis. If goodell modified contracts with pay for missed games none of that would happen.

[Pigeons]

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

I've always wondered if any NCAA college boxers from back then won a world title in the pro ranks.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Good thread. Some good points. I agree with those that say there's too much liability. There are other factors as well. The sport is misunderstood, by and large. Image is everything. And, let's face it, getting hit in the head over and over isn't generally a good thing. Lol