Is boxing worth the risk? Reviews

I love the sport and have followed it for about 25 years. I have been to many big fights, my first being Frank Bruno's first challenge for a world title against Tim Witherspoon in 1986 with my dad as a fourteen year old kid. The atmosphere was incredible and I can remember imagining what it must feel like standing in front of all ...  Read the complete review

I do understand this question, but find it hard to answer, I spar and train with punchbags but have never had the desire to get in the ring, but if I wanted to get in the ring and box, I think I should have every right to do it. It is known as the noble sport, pitching two warriors against each other in combat, it is a skilful trade ...  Read the complete review

Is boxing worth the risk? Now I could ask thousands of people this and get countless responses back. Boxing can be a very dangerous sport, and has led to recent injuries in the past, the worst case being death but also long term mental injuries such as the all famous Muhammed Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease after one of his bouts. Also ...  Read the complete review

This is an interesting one because reading a good few of the reviews already on this subject, it looks like people's opinions on boxing is completely split down the middle. Boxing is really a matter of opinion. On the one hand it is a barbaric sport which centres around two human beings punching each other until the other submits or is ...  Read the complete review

I am surprised at the comments here...justifying boxing as good sport by throwing out freedom of man etc etc. well i have the freedom to run over people in my car and its a risk, and it can be made into a sport, the rist is people have to simply make way through the car without being hit. See where i am going? This simply shows the viloent nature of man!

With the upcoming big one I felt like covering this brilliant and rather poignant subject that dooyoo have allowed us to discuss. I'm also hoping for not serious harm to any of the combatants on Saturday, a day which is very very special to big boxing fans, world wide. Not only is their to super card in Las Vegas, thanks to Oscar De La Hoya's ...  Read the complete review

i think boxing is worth the risk because i think if the great boxers never boxed they will be in even more danger. all the great boxers have said they boxed to get off the streets because they did not want to die so if you ask me boxing is worth the risk for them. furthermore a reporter asked sugar ray leonard a boxing legend do you think boxing ...  Read the complete review

I believe boxing should not be banned. Even though i'm only 15 I still have strong views and here they are : Boxing is a noble art. A fraction of our national sporting life. Therefore why is there such a great need for a ban? In a free society a young man should have the right to fight. Injuriges are no more common than they are in motor ...  Read the complete review

Is boxing worth the risk? It is and it isn't. Let me expand on this. Boxing is a working class sport. It is a sport of the poor man. Boxing clubs are used in England and other countries to keep teenagers away from trouble. It gives them something to do. If you look at the professional boxers, most come from humble ...  Read the complete review

I believe boxing is worth the risk! Live on ITV on Saturday night at 9.45pm there is a night of boxing from the Millenium Stadium in Wales. Wales' WBO and Ring Magazine Super Middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe defends is title for the 20th time against the runner up of the USA contender boxing series, Peter Manfredo Jr. ...  Read the complete review

I have to say that as a big boxing fan i had to ask the same question after watching the Joe Calazage v Jeff Lacy world title match .I haven't seen such a one sided beating in a long time, if lacy wasn't the champ and didn't have such a fearsome reputation then the fight would have been stopped at the halfway point.However , i would stay that ...  Read the complete review

Is boxing worth it in my opinion YES it is. Firstly I know what you are all saying how could such a sport be worth it with all the things that happen to you like broken bones severe damage to most of your body. But I am going to show you that to some people that don’t matter. I was never very good in school I just couldn’t do it ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Boxing has a reputation for violence, sometimes leading to serious injury and brain damage. Mike Tyson's recent actions have hardly helped to encourage attitudes towards the sport. Do we have the right to participate in such brutal and harmful activities, or to pay others to do so for our entertainment? The right to danger: Injuries ...  Read the complete review

Two most pathetic things for me this week have been the 2m pound lottery winner who did on his sofa surrounded by two crates of beer and a bottle of whisky. The other was that pre fight hype press face off where Tyson laid into Lennox Lewis crew. It certainly makes you smile when you see those Lennox Lewis commercials about keeping his cool if ...  Read the complete review

RISK! Don’t we take them every day of our lives? Isn’t walking across the street a risk? What about walking home alone at night, isn’t that a risk? So boxing is a VISIBLE risk, one that has everlasting kickbacks on families and supporters of this violent, but sportsman like game. ...  Read the complete review

Boxing is a gentleman’s sport that has been practised for many years from the grim northern gyms to the glittery delights of Las Vegas. In recent times there have been countless life threatening injuries incurred by some of the participants. In turn this makes people question the validity of the sport. It’s the same stale points every ...  Read the complete review

I know that most men like nothing less then staying up all night because the boxing is on the television through my experience. Although I have to ask them and myself is it worth it. I mean, do they honestly watch it because they enjoy watching two men battering each others heads out or is it just the frill of staying up late. ...  Read the complete review

Ppl have your own right to say if they can box or not...it's their life!!! - Advantages: entertainment, passion, money - Disadvantages: injuries, death, greed

Risks!,you mean a fight might break out between Daudley Harrison and whichever bum the BBC have put up for Saturdays farcical primetime bout.This guy is Auntie’s only sports budget income for the next five years by the look of him. The other boxer in the corner last time out Lennox”lucky punch” Lewis is one of those away from ...  Read the complete review