Ban boxing??

[Jsmooth9876]

While Boxing has had it's unfortunate accidents it also has a rich history... Olympic sport 688 BC (Ancient Greece) 1904 (modern).

They would have to ban MMA first!!
The sheer brutality of elbows & knees to the face just doesn't cut it for me.

Not noticing many MMA fighters dropping dead after fights lately that's for sure. It's a good thing our government has bigger issues to deal with lol....

[RENE BOX YOUNG]

Not noticing many MMA fighters dropping dead after fights lately that's for sure. It's a good thing our government has bigger issues to deal with lol....

I mean, you have a point. And I think a lot has to do with the limited number of rounds.

[john l]

No! There was nothing wrong with how that fight was officiated. These things happen and its not always someone fault. You can only make boxing so safe before you ruin it, and everybody knows what they are getting into. That being said my hopes and prayers go out to this young man and his family.

[Rhonda Drowsy]

Less rounds yes.. but AM boxers die too. I knew a nice kid who had 150+ AM fights at like 14 years old. I saw him basically end up like Jermaine Taylor in his late teens. He lives in a bad city but still, it makes me think boxing didn't really help him & could have turned him more violent.

Aslo when comparing stats with other sports you cants compare riding a bicycle to boxing.

Cars hitting the bikers raises the deaths I bet

[john l]

I mean, you have a point. And I think a lot has to do with the limited number of rounds.

No its the number of blows landed to head. Boxing has ALWAYS been more brutal then MMA. The UFC has said it themselves and to get license in NY they brought in a bunch of doctors who have experience in combat sports and ALL said same thing. It may look more brutal with the cuts, but real damage is done from shots to the head. In boxing there is more blows landed and also harder blows landed.

[Toffee]

Feels hard right now to support a sport where these deaths aren't accidents - the aim is to concuss. ie damaging the brain is the target.

I love this sport but things are eventually going to change.

[RENE BOX YOUNG]

Feels hard right now to support a sport where these deaths aren't accidents - the aim is to concuss. ie damaging the brain is the target.

I love this sport but things are eventually going to change.

Damaging the brain is definitely not the target, it's winning by points. But I feel what you are saying. And most likely there will be changes man.

[Marchegiano]

So, I make prosthetics for a living. I'm not really "medical" I can't diagnose much of anything y'all couldn't, but, I am around them a lot. Doctors and nurses and ****. I can tell y'all there's a constant medical lobby that is anti-boxing. Most of the medical industry is against the sport.

Which means two things, boxing has been ended in the past for its brutal nature and could be ended at any point in America for the same reason. They are waiting and looking for things like Day to use as a springboard for their beliefs, AND, more importantly, the docs we use in boxing are not highly accredited or very well respected docs in the industry, sadly.

Boxing's biggest problem, as always, is the bodies. The bodies have not stepped up to new atmospheres very well. They don't have much of a lobby, that's more of a private venture. They don't have distribution rights, DAZN, ESPN+, all dumb as ****, you should be able to watch all WBC fights on the WBC website, for money. They can't license you a single boxer to use in your video games or whatever, grill. They don't train doctors specifically for boxing despite Floyd being the highest paid athlete and most sports having sports doctors who specialize in the sport.

It's like half a sport. Sometimes the UFC makes boxing look like the baby sport that has yet to get its **** together despite boxing having 300 years of history on that promotion. Half the sport is ran right while the other half is just private deals mostly controlled by promoters and just co-signed by bodies.

TV came in the 1930s and to this day the sanctioning bodies are just like **** TV rights, we don't make no claim, y'all figure that **** out. It's really, really dumb.

You can't expect much pushback against people who are anti-violence expect for a natural grassroots one because that's what boxing is. A sport where the central authority ignores half the **** going on with in it. So while drs back an anti-boxing wave, and I know they are, who have we got? Maybe Suliman and co, privately, but officially, the WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO will do nothing. They might tweet a message here and there.

[VatoMulatto]

Boxing will never get banned but I can see why some people feel the sport should be banned. In other dangerous sports when people die it's because of an accident. Even though it's an accident when a boxer dies the whole thing about boxing is to punch your opponent. The main purpose of boxing is to land severe blows to the head or body and hurt your opponent. Knocking your opponent out is the sweetest thing. It's the nature of the sport that so many people are against.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Social media doesn't represent the feeling of society. "The majority of tweets come from a small group of “extremely active” Twitter users, a study from the Pew Research Center found. About 80 percent of all tweets from U.S. Twitter users come from just 10 percent of users"

Same vocal minority is the reason there is a "Pronoun Day" and a bunch of rainbow nonsense all over the place from businesses. They DO have influence. They shouldn't, but they do.