should woman be allowed box?

[Bum squad]

It's not for me, although you have the option to watch or not. Same with almost all women sport; a lot of it is amateur standard compared to the men so i have little interest in it but each to their own if you wanna watch it crack on.

[Marchegiano]

I believe that it is just your cultural and societal conditioning that makes you believe women should not fight.

In the animal kingdom the females have to raise the young and defend them, and they will die trying.

If you were in danger, watch your girlfriend or mother or sister fly into the situation (happened to me many times).

Women are fighters like the rest...... and if they want to box under rules, let them.

Yes, I reckon so.

The history of female combative sports goes far back into centuries, although not too many historical documents remain. In the past, women were extremely rare guests in unarmed combative activities which were considered as exceptionally men’s. However, in some places and at some epochs, female combative sports were relatively popular for those patriarchal times. Legendary ancient Spartan women, Andean indigenous women in South America, Polynesian women and British women in the 18-19 centuries can be recalled as good examples.

The first evidence of female hand-to-hand combatants has come to us from the Greek mythology. Women in many ancient Greek city-states were involved in some athletic exercises and even in competitions. Every four years the most respected married Greek women organized The Heraea Games, the Olympics for maiden competitors. Women were barred from even attending the Olympics let alone participating.

In contrast to other Greeks, ancient Spartans prized the physical fitness and courage of girls as well as boys. According to Xenophon, who seems to have approved wholeheartedly both of women’s sports and of Sparta’s atmosphere, the legendary Spartan legislator Lycurgus encouraged girls to run, wrestle, box and pankration. Since Spartan men most of the time were out for war and war training, there was shortage of capable men in settlements. That’s why full contact contests in different forms were quite natural for ancient female Spartans. They competed just for fun but sometimes for dominance in the society or over a man. Contests in boxing and wrestling were held according to strict predefined rules which female combatants followed. There are evidences that the ancient female pugilists wore special garments protecting important female functions from damage. Ancient pugilists usually wrapped leather straps called himantes over their hands and wrists. Evidently, married women competed in yearly harvest celebration side by side with girls.

The love poems of Propertius testify that at least one Roman poet was enchanted by the bewitching of physically active Spartan girls. His extravagant tribute deserves quotation:



I must admire the Spartan fighting schools,
But most of all I like the women’s rules…
Girls, like men, can compete nude.
Spartans think such exercises are good for women:
Girls practice in wrestling as Helen,
They bear the brunt of the Pankration match,
Put pygmachia straps on hands, so soft and fair.
They whirl the heavy discus through the air,
Gallop the circuit, helmets on their brow,
Buckling a sword too thighs as white as snow;
With hoar-frost on their hair, they join the chase
With the determination on the face
Like Amazons, breasts naked to the fray…

According to legends, Spartan girls from free classes annually competed in boxing, pankration, or wrestling in order to win the title of the village queen. Such competitions allowed girls to raise their status in the female society for years. According to a tradition, a former village queen was a referee of the competition.



So much is the story of the Spartan Queens

[Lucky86]

should women be allowed to do anything? the answer is a clear no.

Smartest thing I have heard all day.

[Articulateboxin]

Men are, study your evolution

I think you're referring to a study that was carried out on a pool of 20 men and 19 females. This is a theory that's been used to explain why men have more upper body muscle than women do. The theory of evolution and this theory of men evolving to fight are not the same and obviously do not originate from the same place. The upper body muscle is just as, if not more more likely to have resulted from 200 thousand years of labor, more so than it is fighting.

As I mentioned prior, there is nothing about the human body that is evolved for physical combat. We are sacks of water who break and cut very easily

[D4thincarnation]

I think you're referring to a study that was carried out on a pool of 20 men and 19 females. This is a theory that's been used to explain why men have more upper body muscle than women do. The theory of evolution and this theory of men evolving to fight are not the same and obviously do not originate from the same place. The upper body muscle is just as, if not more more likely to have resulted from 200 thousand years of labor, more so than it is fighting.

As I mentioned prior, there is nothing about the human body that is evolved for physical combat. We are sacks of water who break and cut very easily

Nope, it the fact that men fight and women don't.
The ***** and play games they are much more adept to detected body language as well.

It happens this way because strong men will prevail and many women will find him attractive and will have his genes passed down, through many women.

If women fight each other it can damage the reproductivity of the group, hence why they don't.

[nacho daddy]

women should only practice oral skills cooking cleaning and strip/pole dancing. that is it

[Papa Smurf]

So long as they fight real women then yes

no unfair advantage of men getting sex changes and caving in womens skulls