Argument Against a Ban on Boxing
The entertaining sport of boxing, an athletic event consisting of
numerous health conflictions, has been receiving some heat from legal and
medical advocates, yet “Some of the qualities that have open boxing to
attack have, at the same time, been its salvation”(Sammons 235). Boxing,
which has been in existence and evolved from other forms of fighting longer
than this country has been established, is a skill, talent, an ambition, and for
most professional fighters, a love. Professional boxing, like virtually any
physical recreation, is performed so that there are health risks, yet it is the
athletes right to decide their personal levels of danger. Indeed, boxing
discloses America’s disposition towards tradition.
During the United States’ brief history, Americans have consistently
managed to acquire cultural, social, political, and intellectual institutions
from England, leaving no surprise to why the modern controversial sport of
boxing, or prizefighting, traveled over sea to America. This high-demanding
sporting event definitely must be one of the ultimate exceptions of our time.
The 1820s and 1830s were marked by increased urbanization and
industrialization, which stimulated a need for new and accessible diversions.
The mood of society at large was captured in Beyond the Ring with this
classic line, “Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone, need
something to satisfy their lighter moods and hours”(4). Leisure’s and, more
importantly, boxing’s opponents lost further ground as the giant cities
attracted more and more immigrants who were unfamiliar to limitations upon
amusements and games.
As Jeffrey Sammons so concisely explains, “It is because of, r...
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...nd upper class men “don’t mind professional baseball and
football, but to be labeled a ‘prizefighter’ is something they can’t quite
swallow”(237).
In opposition to my current beliefs, Elliot J. Gorn, the author of The
Manly Art, believes that “boxers are victims of racial and class
discrimination, that the ring encourages voilence, and that pugilism appeals
to all that is barbarous in man”(11).
In Conclusion, a ban on boxing is not only illogical but impossible! In my mind,
if you want to minimize the number of actual life-long injuries related to
sports, you would be better off coming up with elaborated rules for motor
sports or rock climbing. Who wants to terminate a sport that has been
entertaining the world for centuries? How could medical ethics eliminate a
sport which participates in the Olympics? Yes, boxing may be risky but so is
life.
Cousins believes that it is futile to investigate the referee’s role because they are the ones who amuses crowd or audience. Although the referee’s role is to stop the fight early, it disappoints the audience to their viewpoint to stop fight too soon. The supreme moment of boxing is when the audience see the live fight that two men beautifully dodging and swingout each other’s jabs or the time when the two boxer ends up with gory battle and continue to smash at each other with pole-axe impact and that is the most amusing part of boxing.
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