Comments Thread For: Boxing Should Throw In The Towel During The Age Of Coronavirus

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By Corey Erdman - When ShoBox: The New Generation went to air on Friday night, the scene of a quiet Minnesota casino ballroom hosting a boxing event in the middle of a global pandemic kind of didn't feel shocking at all. Even in the direst of moments, boxing acted like exactly what it is: Fearless, defiant, and just a little bit more dangerous than it ought to be...
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[PeterPancakes]

Ummmm.....

Can you please either write like a man or not write about boxing, at all? These whimpering "safe-space" articles are becoming all too frequent. Go cover tennis or something.... Boxing isn't for you.

[NachoMan]

The whole damn world has lost its mind. This is the future of our planet...everybody hiding under their beds for a month when somebody coughs or farts.

[NachoMan]

Corey Erdman should throw in the towel on his sports writing career.

[The Noose]

Good read.

Some highlights...

With COVID-19 most closely resembling the Spanish Flu pandemic, it’s interesting to look back at what precautions the boxing industry took during those times, which is absolutely none. In 1918, at the peak of the flu’s outbreak in the United States, there were 1770 documented professional boxing events of varying sizes. Many prominent fighters contracted the disease, and some even perished. According to a recent post by boxing historian and Boxrec.com editor Chuck Johnston, those who passed away from the Spanish Flu in 1918 included “Professor Mike Donovan, a well-known middleweight of the past and a boxing instructor; Jim Stewart, heavyweight boxer, Matty Baldwin, a retired lightweight contender; Battling Jim Johnson, heavyweight; Al Thomas, lightweight; Terry Martin, welterweight; and Joe Tuber, bantamweight.” Former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries also caught the flu, but eventually recovered.

Boxing and its younger cousin MMA, are among the only professional sports on the planet still actively announcing and promoting upcoming events.

Unfortunately, as much as it feels like a necessity for us hardcore fans, boxing is a non-essential service. The sport and those within it should not be doing things that potentially endanger the public, or the participants themselves, and contribute to the spread of a potentially fatal disease.

If this feels unfair to the fighters, that’s because it is..
The fight to take up isn’t for boxing events to go rogue, it’s for a structure governmentally and internally to look after the athletes, and the citizens like them, in trying times.

As we all remain apart, physically, for the greater good, we can take comfort in a common effort. We’re all in the same corner, taking up the plight of the fighters, and one another.

[Tutsa]

I see a whole change in the landscape of boxing and ufc . If you we do get in studio fights it forces the best to fight each other . One title for each weight class . This virus is here to stay and it’s going to come back stronger in the fall . All of Europe is a hot spot , Italy asked uefa to postpone Euro cause they are so crippled .

[Dolor]

Sad to see how many people fail to understand the severity of the situation.

COVID-19 is not comparable to Influenza; the reproductive number is much higher for COVID-19, and so is mortality (30-40x according to WHO estimates). This virus will wipe out a significant percentage of individuals >70 years of age if no measures to stop the spread are taken.

[Dolor]

I see a whole change in the landscape of boxing and ufc . If you we do get in studio fights it forces the best to fight each other . One title for each weight class . This virus is here to stay and it’s going to come back stronger in the fall . All of Europe is a hot spot , Italy asked uefa to postpone Euro cause they are so crippled .

The US is already a hot spot as well - the difference is that so far, the US has hardly tested for it, which explains the low number of officially reported cases. the CDC has published on this extensively. Hopefully that will change now, but with the number of confirmed deaths in the US so far, cases of infection are probably 5-10x as high as currently reported.

[MisanthropicNY]

Sad to see how many people fail to understand the severity of the situation.

COVID-19 is not comparable to Influenza; the reproductive number is much higher for COVID-19, and so is mortality (30-40x according to WHO estimates). This virus will wipe out a significant percentage of individuals >70 years of age if no measures to stop the spread are taken.

The Libtards and Social ********s a/k/a the Left-leaning losers who want Big Government want the old population to die off.

[MisanthropicNY]

As far as this article, so boxing should throw in the towel because of a virus that literally kills 0 adults under the age of 60? Might be the dumbest article of year so far that I've read on this site (and that's saying a lot if you know how many horrible articles are written here). People are dumb though - they love to be around other people in crowds for some reason. You know how many dumb women I know who don't even like sports will go to any event period just to go? People hate to isolate themselves that's the biggest issue with this Coronavirus pandemic. But the answer is probably to hold TV and PPV only events until this virus gets under control probably around the USA summer time and not to just throw in the towel like this moron writes.