"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. (Muhammad Ali)". Boxing should not be abolished because the fighters premeditate precautions to the sport, it does not promote violence, and there are other sports that are more dangerous. Boxing is a one-on-one combat sport that involves sparring. A way to determine the winner of the match is by points, depending on where the opponent is hit, and the fighters must survive all 3-12 rounds. Another way to win the match is by knock out. Risk is part of the game and it just so happens that all sports contain a factor of taking risks. Therefore, abolishment should not be the solution.
Boxing is taken to precaution by everyone. By everyone, there are the doctors, the parents, the coaches, and the fighter. Every sport requires a physical and consent form by the legal guardians and the family physician of the player. On the physical, the doctor notes both the player's abilities and disabilities to determine whether or not he/she can play. This gives full consent by both the doctor and the parents of the player to play the sport, and by agreeing, the parents understand the natural consequences and that they hold full liability if anything were to happen to their child. With that, there are athletic trainers and a doctor at every boxing tournament to analyze and help with any medical disabilities of the players. Also, amateur boxing requires fighters to wear protective headgear at all times during a match and players must go through a strict medical procedure before being able to play (Boxing). This helps lower the risk of causing any head injuries. If the player is not fully aware of what the consequences of boxing are, then the coaches will r...
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With that being said, we begin to notice the comparison between both dogfighting and football. This was shown by using a system called “HITS, in which six sensors are placed inside the helmet of every player on the field, measuring the force and location of every blow he receives to the head” (Gladwell 56). The HITS system helped to conclude that practice can be just as dangerous as the games. With this being said, football is an overall reckless style of play that can continually cause brain injury. Not just football but both of these high intensity sports are viewed as damaging to one 's body both physically and mentally. Because of this, if people consider dogfighting to be unjust, illegal, and abusive then they should believe football to have the same damaging effects. Unfortunately, there is such a high demand for football, because of all the money it brings. Because of this, scientist and doctors will ignore the realistic facts and continue to allow people to participate in this
“The 1910 Jeffries-Johnson Fight and Its Impact” was by far my favorite reading from the text this semester, which is the main reason for my choosing of this topic. Throughout this article, I found it to be incredibly intriguing how detailed it was on the struggles that Johnson went through. Discussing the difficult experiences he had as a rising black athlete and then to end up with a white woman who, to many, could or could not have been considered a prostitute. All of the events during Johnson’s life make him such an amazing person and a very interesting athlete to learn more about.
Original Production and ESPN films created "Shadowboxing: The Journey of the African-American Boxer” in 1999. This incredible documentary shows us how African American fighters broke
...e in the case of a lawsuit pressed against them. These policies usually have guidelines and limitations, which must be considered before enrolling in a plan. Education and supplemental training is another useful risk management resource. This can be done by achieving and maintaining additional certifications in areas such as first aid, CPR, AED, or any intervention applicable to the clinician’s setting. Continuing education is a valuable opportunity for professional’s to continue acquiring knowledge and training even after their didactic coursework is completed. All of these methods demonstrate proper utilization of resources to minimize and control the probability of harm or injury to the athletes. Proactive risk management is crucial to the sports medicine professional in preventing negative situations and protecting themselves from liability in potential lawsuits.
It is clear that this moment in his childhood stuck with him throughout his life and eventually manifested into something that would change the way he would look at things. As technology progressed we were able to watch “slow-motion replays showing us the precise angle of a grotesquely twisted ankle and a quarterback’s contorted face at the exact moment he is concussed” [Almond]. Watching this violence would stir any soul would it not? The beauty of morals is that it is seldom black and white but rather many shades of grey. This violence to me could be perfectly acceptable whilst to Almond it is absolutely unacceptable. People could be okay with the violence in football but not the violence in boxing. The grey area in these situations lies in the individual 's knowledge and compensation of said risk. Yes professional athletes are prone to serious injury but they are paid a handsome amount of money to compensate for such danger. Not only is there money involved but there is quite a bit of fame as well. Playing professional football can open many doors for a young aspiring athlete. In life there are many unknown risks and factors that come into play. If you are given a choice to do what you love knowing there are risks and be largely compensated for it that is hands down a win in my book. It doesn 't
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
Violence has become a normalized concept in society.Children play video games based on beating and shooting others, people watch violent news stories without a second thought, and people watch people hit, punch, and fight each other for pure entertainment. In Norman Mailer’s “The Death of Benny Paret” Mailer assigns animalistic qualities to the boxers, comparisons of the boxers to inanimate objects, and pacing to convey that boxing is inhuman and uncivilized.
The repeated head blows sustained by fighters during their matches has been a link to slower cognitive processing speeds and smaller volumes of certain brain parts. Fighters are not allowed to strike another fighters head or face with a straight up and down elbow, or hit the top or back of another fighters head and neck, but other head and neck hits are still allowed. Most of the head injuries suffered by the fighters have been done after the fighters have already been put out cold. Fighters are allowed to kick and punch, as well as use wrestling like techniques on the ground with their opponents. Half of the knockouts occurred because of blows to the mandible or lower jaw and roughly 2.6 head strikes occur after a knockout. MMA fighters get what is called “boxers dementia” after being hit in the head so many times. The symptom that fighters get after being hit in the head so many times is called post-concussion syndrome. The symptoms are eye strain, sensitivity to light and noise, and depression. Post-concussion syndrome goes away within three months, but it can last for more than a year. It is important that referees and fighters can recognize signs of a concussion. That is why part of the treatment in preventing a concussion is to take the fighter out at the first sign of injury to prevent a more severe
Boxing in the early and mid-twentieth century had an appeal that captured the eyes and ears of millions of Americans. Championship fights and popular fighters were on national television and in newspaper headlines. At the time, boxing was relevant in the American sports world. However, over the past 30 years, boxing has regressed and lost its popularity. Spectacles like the graceful Muhammad Ali and the hard-hitting Mike Tyson are gone and have been replaced by lackluster fighters and greedy fight promoters who only care about their profit cut. On top of that, an increasing pile of evidence is starting to show more clearly the dangers of repeated head trauma and how corrupt the business of boxing has become. Lastly, boxing is pressured by the rapidly growing sport, mixed martial arts (MMA), because of its safer nature and a strong corporate leader. These causes combined will finally cause boxing to die as a sport in America unless serious steps are taken to reform the sport.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a syndrome of emotional lability, Parkinsonism, ataxia, and cognitive impairment suffered by athletes who undergo repetitive concussive and subconcussive blows to the head (Cantu 2007). Owing to its initial discovery in boxers, CTE has been various known as "punch drunk," "dementia pugilistica," and "psychopathic deterioration of pugilist." This paper will take a step into the science behind this disease. Starting with the first descriptions in the medical literature and covering the progress made in understanding the clinical presentation, epidemiology, neuropathology, and genetics of the disease.
Calvin Inalsingh, the head of the World Boxing Association’s medical advisory committee, admits that “boxing is the only sport in which the objective is to render blows to the head and body of the opponent so as the cause the opponent to be incapacitated.” The whole point of boxing is to inflict brain damage and as more medical knowledge comes to light, many believe that boxing will banned sometime in the future. Many people believe that boxing is too unnecessarily dangerous, including medical experts.
First, why there is violence in sports is because of the fans and how fans like to see such things to be entertained. In boxing people pay to see blood, or somebody
Confusion on the definition of a concussion can affect athletes, coaches and trainers when it comes to diagnosing a concussion. The knowledge to know the signs and symptoms of a concussion can reduce the short, medium, and long-term consequences of them. Signs of a concussion could be an inability to focus, vomiting, nausea, dizziness, and slurred speech. Concussions have been around for many years. More and more research is being conduction on concussions as the years pass for a better understanding. As a better understanding of concussion is being researched, sports teams should force and make better rules when it comes to hitting players. Athletes that has had a concussion can suffer from short-term symptoms like verbal delay or long-term symptoms like a disability. Helmets are being improved constantly, but the reduction of concussions is not decreasing. Reduction of concussion starts with the player reporting his injury. After reporting the injury, the proper steps can be taken to get rid of symptoms and prevent the likeliness of the injury from happening again. To prevent to the likeliness of the injury to reoccur the athlete must take time away from the sport and spend a certain amount of time recovery. Before returning back to play, the athlete must be check for readiness. Readiness can be checked by testing the athlete’s behavior and abilities. Sports come with pros and cons. The pros can be working with others to complete the same objective while having fun. The con can be simply suffering from a concussion. So an athlete has to be willing and well educated on the sport he or she wants to play before committing to a certain
Parents around the country are taking notice. Within the last decade alone, the exorbitant amount of coverage and publicity revolving around concussions has caused many to question whether it is safe for children to participate in contact sports. However, it is beneficial that more attention is being paid toward this subject matter as more research is now being done to improve safety for all participants. Kids should not be prevented from participating in contact sports because of the life lessons that that can be obtained and because of the increased priority that that has been placed on medical care, prevention, and overall awareness. However, it is pivotal that proper guidance is available after one suffers their first concussion so that the appropriate decision can be formulated as to whether one can return to the sport.
Boxing Should Not be Banned In recent years, there have been many campaigns to try and have boxing