Many images comes to mind when a person thinks of the word sports, such as tennis, golf, basketball, football, baseball, swimming and bowling. Throughout these friendly competitive challenges of skill, fans watch as players do bouncing, hitting, passing, dribbling, throwing, or rolling a ball to knock over pins in order to score points. On the other hand there is a sport that remain where the object is to deliver blows to an opponent’s body or in order to achieve points. In boxing two powerful, strong, men or women, square off and contest in a intelligent punch off to see who will be knocked out first. This sport is boxing, a brutal exchange of jabs, hooks, uppercuts, and other swings that may eventually knock one athlete down to the canvass …show more content…
Boxing has been in existence since 3000 B.C. and have evolved from many forms of fighting to this recent type of fighting, a form of entertainment as we know it today. Boxing is considered a skill sport, very dangerous, high ambition, and passion. Professional fighters must have a strong love for the sport. Many people may think that boxing is a somewhat modern sport, but the fact is that boxing is one of the oldest sport in the world. People, approximately six thousand years ago in Egypt used boxing as a way to protect themselves, their families, and their land. Boxing then extended to Ethiopia and finally throughout the Mediterranean area. In 688 B.C. boxing became an Olympic sport. The Romans came up with the invented the boxing ring, rather than using chalk on the ground to mark off an area for fighter to compete. Boxing has come along way since ancient times to present day life. The basic rule of boxing still stands to knock your opponent out to win. Boxing has always been a cruel sport. A boxer risks injury and takes their life into their own hands each time they step in a ring. For the entertainment of people …show more content…
Fighters that obtain permanent brain damage may later be diagnosed with the Parkinson disease. Studies show that over half of the professional boxing population both past and present have permanent brain scars. Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to participate is the sport was diagnosed with Parkinson’s syndrome, a disease that is common to head trauma from activities such as boxing. Now the boxer whom experts still today address as the champ cannot walk without the aid of a cane and can barely speak.
Death is the most serious outcome of the continual beatings to the brain. Oscar Gonzalez and Duck Kim or examples of professional boxers that have suffered death for the love of this sport. Both fighters received many crushing blows to the head leading up to result of death. Nobody expects these types of things to ever take place in boxing, but boxing is a physical, dangerous sport. The cushioning of the gloves offers protection for both fighters but the human body can only endure so much. The number of punches to the face and body professional boxers endure during their career is unstable for the human
Boxing is combat with very little protection and it insures lots of injury. Having a career as a boxer one thing is guaranteed suffering countless injuries and possibly undergoing some very fatal blows to the head. In the article it says that boxers still box because people still go to boxing matches to watch boxers go at it all out till time is called. The article also mentions that boxer had a twenty percent chance of dementia. Boxers knowingly put their life in hazard for the amusement of other people.
The novel The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow is a story depicting the exploits of Karl Stern, a fourteen-year-old German boy who’s jewish ancestry has branded him as an outcast in a developing Natzi Germany. Karl, along with his sister and parents, live in an art studio in an unspecified town in Germany where he attends school, and aspires to be a cartoon artist. Karl begins experiencing shortcomings in the year of 1934 when he experiences strong animosity from his fellow classmates as word of his jewish lineage becomes public. Despite never setting foot in a synagogue, Karl gets expelled from school, his property vandalized, and beaten by self proclaimed Hitler youth. Karl begins to spiral into a spout of depression and self-hatred
Remnick does not shy away from discussing the shadowy history of the boxing world (no pun intended). It's well known boxing has been affiliated with the 'mob,' but perhaps what is lesser known is Clay's absolute refusal to be in any way associated with the Mafia.
However, Australian contact sports such as AFL and Rugby give the option for players to wear headgear for protection. In 2011, 14 year old Ben Robinson was hospitalised after being treated 3 times in a game for head blows in a rugby game . In 1994, professional boxer Bradley Stone died from head injuries whilst boxing against Richie Wenton . Examples like these show the brutality of contact sports.
James Braddock took his father’s lessons to heart when he practiced fighting in the old schoolyard before he reached his teenage years. He practiced for several years to be an amateur fighter. When Braddock first started boxing he avoided professional competitions for two years. Instead, they froze the title, which means Braddock earned money touring the country giving public appearances and boxing exhibitions. In 1926, he entered the professional boxing circuit in the light heavyweight division.
Have you ever wondered, “What is the difference between MMA and boxing?” Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fights originated as hand-to-hand combat performed as a sport called Pankration from the greek words Pan and Kratas, meaning “all powers” (Shamrock). Often a practitioner of one of the skill groups in martial arts challenged a practitioner of a different skill for ultimate bragging rights (Shamrock). In 393C.E. Roman emperor Theodosius the first banned the Olympic games,spelling the end of Pankration as a popular sport (Shamrock). This style of fighting later resurfaced in the twentieth century in Brazil via a combat sport known as vale tudo”,anything goes” (“Encyclopedia Britannica”). MMA
"By a knockout, at one minute…seconds in the second round...tonight's light and heavyweight winner...from the great state of New Jersey...the Bulldog of Bergen, James J. Braddock!" Boxing was a sport that always existed, but in the 19th century boxing became a very popular sport. It was so popular that "boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908" and in the 1930's it even "spurred the sales of radio" as it was broadcasted on them. Boxing was the "second most popular sport in the nation," the first was baseball.
Being a professional boxer didn’t do much for his mental health because he says he would feel on top of the world and yet so lonely at the same time after a fight. Therefore, he suffered not only the physical demands, but the mental demands in the professional arena of the sport.
Muscular christianity pushes masculinity after some saw the feminization of our culture. This breeds danger in the ring, as it becomes the feminine thing to tap out of the fight. It’s not only muscular christianity that brings danger, it’s the attentiveness of the ringside doctors and referees. In the video “Death in the Ring (2014),” the video showcases Dennis Munson Jr's slow deterioration in his debut fight at the Eagles Club, but it also shows how the ringside doctor was on his phone, and how he deliberately kept the ambulance from coming for a while, as well as not administering oxygen. Even Munson’s coach was shown slapping Munson in the face before he collapsed. Overall, this shows the lack of safety in boxing, and the risk boxers take into their own
Contact sports today, such as hockey have had serious effects on the health of athletes. Perhaps the most common injury in hockey is the concussion. Modern day equipment has increased the health and safety of athletes across all ages. Organizations such as the National Hockey League have recently taken precautions in effort to reduce the occurrence of the injury. The argument here is that numerous players and fans disagree with the recent changes that have been made to the game due to the injury. The argument represented is that leagues such as the NHL should focus more on the players causing concussions, rather than changing the game that we all love. The altercations to the sport have helped
In Conclusion, a ban on boxing is not only illogical but impossible! In my mind,
Wrestling can be traced back to cave drawings during the ancient times. According to one source,”... wrestling has been around since people started to recorded history. In France there are cave drawings of people that are wrestling that are about 15,000 years old. The Egyptian and Babylonian people had wrestling bouts that were using most of the same grappling techniques, and throws that we know today (Wrestling History). The sport of wrestling came from ancient Greece. It was used as an exercise to train Greek soldiers for battle. Ever since then, the sport has changed dramatically (Different).
Boxing Should Not be Banned In recent years, there have been many campaigns to try and have boxing
Hard checks, high-impact hits, rough blows, knockouts, crushing tackles; some violence occurs naturally in some sports. Those naturally violent sports (e.g., football, hockey, soccer, wrestling, and boxing) with all that aggression and violence excites audiences and enhance enjoyment. However, aggression and violence in sporting competitions are clearly becoming an issue. Destructive aggression is often deliberate and frequently encouraged by coaches, spectators, and teammates. This aggression in becoming increasing accepted by the public and ever popular in today’s sporting events. Michael Strahan a player in the NFL said in 2007 that, “It’s the most perfect feeling in the world to know you’ve hit a guy just right, that you’ve maximized the physical pain he can feel….. You feel the life just go out of him. You’ve taken all this man’s energy and just dominated him” (Coakley, 2008). Clearly, Strahan’s words show the acceptance of aggressive behavior and even glorify this aggression.
This stating of terms of the definition of sport is arguably the most prominent of arguments in this chapter. As Donald Kyle, author of Sport and Spectacle, rightly suggests, some may indeed question his approach to the exclusion of fencing, duelling and gladiatorial combat. Whilst other reviewers such as Stephen Instone comment on Poliakoff’s general lack of argument, and some just waive this chapter as satisfactory, All...