You what? The beautiful game of boxing! (Is boxing worth the risk?)

Member Name: go jump

Product:	Is boxing worth the risk?
Date:	09/08/02 (253 review reads)
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Advantages: lots of money

Disadvantages: injuries

Right hooks, uppercuts,left jabs and all these other sorts of punches that can be dished out. Sounds kinda painful actually. So why do some massive guys (and now massive girls) decide to make a career out of bashing the daylights out of another human being?

Well to me boxing is just another sport. So what people get hurt - many rugby players get hurt, many footballers lose the ability to walk properly once their career is over, American footabllers get concussion many a time but you never hear then complaining.

So why do we hear all this about boxing? Is it because the great Mohammed Ali suffers from Pakinson's? Well I do not mean to sound harsh but when you take up a dangerous profession, you risk harming yourself.

And one thing that does annoy me about boxing debates is that the boxers themselves do not complain about the sport but its the viewers. Excuse me but isn't it the boxers who are putting themselves at risk? So whats the problem?

Ok many of them get injured and there is always a possibility that this could happen but at the end of the day the individuals themselves know the risks and are willing to take them.

So safety is being addressed by some people. How can you make this sport more safe? Well head pads can be used but that is deployed in amateur boxing so there will be no difference between professional boxing and amateur boxing. So I think that should be discarded. The padding on the gloves seems sufficient enough and if it gets more padded then it might begin to feel that someone is patting your head.

So this is a sport that cannot be made safe as the nature of it is brutal and people who participate in it are taking risks they are willing to take them.

It is unfortunate that accidents happen but they are obviously a factor that may occur in a boxer's career.

So to conclude this i reckon that boxing should remain the same. Besides boxers want the money so they do
n't seem to care about what happens to them.

PS Lennox Lewis is the best boxer around at the moment but I think that Mike Tyson at his prime (20 yrs old) was the greatest ever fighter

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