Boxing can be pretty dangerous because you can get concussions, broken hands,ribs, and noses.
I ended up choosing to write my essay on the history of boxing, and some facts about boxing. The reason why I chose to do my essay on boxing is because it is the only sport I am interested in, it is the only thing I am good at. I hope this essay helps you learn stuff about boxing that you never knew before. If you are against boxing I hope this essay helps you understand why people go into it. I also hope it helps you appreciate the sport a little more.
Boxing History tells you about when and how boxing was started, and who gave it its rules, and why they did. Boxings history is really long(2003).
Boxings history goes all the way back to ancient Greece, and Rome. Boxing back then was pretty brutal because all they did was taped leather to their hands(Jezek,2013). Bare knuckle boxing tournaments or contests were held all over england. Jack Boughton developed the very first set of rules for the sport and he published them in 1743 because he killed one of his opponents in 1741 (Boxing Today, 2003). According to Boxing Today the most revolutionary change for the sport of boxing occurred in 1856 when John Sholto drew up new rules for boxing which basically made the sport into what it is today (2003). One really important safety wear was created by a London dentist, Jack Marles(Boxing Today,2003). The piece of safety equipment that he made is now known as the mouth guard. The establishment of the National Boxing Association in 1927 ensured a fair governing body that looked into the game and it’s success (Jezek,2013). Boxing was once a very gruesome and brutal sport before they got better rules and safer equipment.
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...riety of contact-related injuries you can experience. Not all of the injuries are from getting hit but by hitting your opponent. You can break fingers, hands, or wrists from punching your opponent wrong. The long term injuries are way worse than the short term injuries because the short term injuries heal, and the long term injuries don’t heal. The long term injuries don’t heal because its from being hit to much and it’s neurological damage(livestrong.com,2014). Those were some of the disadvantages that come with boxing.
Works Cited
Geno Jezek, “History of boxing,” www.historyofboxing.info, 2006-2014
“Boxing Today,” http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring03/bueneventura/history.htm, 2003
“White Collar Boxing,” whitecollarboxing.com/boxinfo.htm, 2014
“Pros and cons about boxing’” http://www.livestrong.com/article/414514-the-pros-cons-about-boxing/, 2014
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.
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.
African American’s went through a tremendous amount of emotional and physical abuse in the past because of their skin color. White people used to set strict rules for blacks and deprived them of living a life where they could enjoy freedom. We still have racial discrimination today, but I believe it’s not as bad. Sports, such as boxing saw racial discrimination occurring in their sport. Fans will shake their heads, get angry, and have an admiration for African American boxers from the past when they watch “Shadowboxing: The Journey of the African-American Boxer."
Karl Stern is an artistic, lanky, beat up, Jewish fourteen year-old boy whose only refuge is drawing cartoons for his younger sister and himself. All that changes in an instant when he meets the boxer, Max Schmeling in his father’s art gallery. In exchange for a painting, Karl will receive lessons from the world renowned fighter and national German hero. Suddenly he has a purpose: train to become a boxing legend. As the years go by and he gets stronger, both physically and emotionally, so does the hatred for the Jews in Germany. This new generation of anti-Semitism starts when Karl gets expelled from school and grows until his family is forced to live in Mr. Stern’s gallery. Though the Stern’s have never set foot into a synagogue and do not consider themselves “Jewish”, they are still subjects to this kind of anti-Semitism. They try to make the best of it, but Karl can see how much it affects his family. His mother is getting moodier by the day, his sister, Hildy, hates herself because of her dark hair and “Jewish” nose and his father is printing illegal documents for some secret buyers. On Kristallnacht the gallery is broken into and the family is torn apart. Karl must now comfort his sister and search for his injured father and his mother. With the help of some of exceptional people, he manages to get over these many obstacles and make his way to America.
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
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The Terme Boxer or Boxer at Rest is a bronze statue with copper inlays that is cast in a manner representative of early Hellenistic statues. The exact location that this piece was used in is currently uncertain as the bronze statue was located in a form of storage within the foundations of an ancient unidentified building. Estimates regarding the date on this statue are mixed and generally fall loosely between 100 to 400c.e.. Following past examples of this type of statuary indicates that most likely this statue would have been located in a sanctuary or public commons like a bath to celebrate the athlete in question.
"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.
On an October afternoon in 1954 when Cassius was 12 he left his 60 dollar red Schwinn outside the Columbia Auditorium to visit a bazaar. When he and his friends left he realizes that his new bike was stolen. Cassius was in a tearing rage and someone said that there was a police officer in the basement of a boxing gym. He went in demanding a statewide bike hunt and threatening to beat the hell out of whoever had stolen it. The officer Joe Martin asked Cassius if he could fight, and Cassius said no, so Martin invited him to come to the gym and learn how to box, so he could get pay back on the bicycle thief. This is the story of how Cassius first got interested and determined to become a great boxer.
Thus, whether or not the case for legal prohibition is determinative, many reasons have been given for moral concern about boxing. It is perfectly appropriate for those who share such moral concerns to refuse to support boxing, to urge others to refrain from supporting it, and to advocate strong reforms in the practice of boxing. (Simon, 2001, p.355)
Cassius Clay, or Muhammad Ali, is considered the best boxer of all time. Boxing is one of the world’s oldest sports. Although it began in England during the 1700s, it became an Olympic sport in 1904, but did not become legal in the United States until 1920 (cite). Nearly every town and city in the United States in the 1920s had at least one or more gyms where boxing was taught. Boxers are categorized into different divisions based on their weight. Boxers who weighed less than 108 pounds were considered junior flyweight and boxers that weighed above 195 pounds were categorized un...
My essay is on concussions suffered while playing contact sports. Thought out this essay there will be a series of topic. For instance concussions in science for example committing suicide, symptoms they’ve developed and the research and testing they’ve done on the athletes brain after they’ve passed. The second topic is the number of concussions the athlete or individual suffered, the impact of the hits they received and the aftermath of the concussions. Finally the last topic is about contact sports such as football,UFC,boxing and hockey also ex athletes developing drug and alcohol addictions and finally blacking out. To conclude this introduction this essay focuses on concussions.
"Pound for pound, the best." The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson.
When it comes to physical contact sports, there are two categories, collision sports and tackling sports. American football, ice hockey, lacrosse, boxing, and many more are considered collision sports. Tackling sports would consider rugby, Gaelic football, Australian rules football, and even soccer as some of the world’s tackling sports. A collision sport is way more dangerous than a tackling one. For example, in a football game, it is pretty typical to see players lose their helmet’s, ripped out of their jersey’s, and be taken off the field by ambulance. Reason being is because nowadays players feel like they are Iron Man...
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