Get rid of the point system. Have them keep going till someone gives up or gets KO'd. This simultaneously makes the sport more interesting and will cut back on the corruption.
...and the strategy, and the focus on fitness and stamina, and the length of careers, and all amateur boxing, and the health of boxers, and the frequency of fights, and the likelihood of boxing remaining legal and sanctioned. Boxing has never been street fighting, and will never become such.
I can't believe so many of you alleged males are dogging on boxing and other contact sports. None of these fighters/athletes are slaves, they CHOOSE the sport and the potential consequences. Go back to saving the internet now.
Bravo. While I agree wholeheartedly, I can't help but find it a bit ironic that you question the manliness of boxing detractors while purposely concealing your own fake online identity.
Even _interesting_ sports are not highly regarded among geeks, I'm not sure how this article was even considered "stuff that matters."
Maybe gladiators would be worth posting about, but boxing is as Neanderthal as it gets.
You care enough to type about it. And as someone whose DNA is upwards of 3% neanderthal, I am offended.
Of course the spectators are only watching for the thinking.
Just like everybody reads Playboy for the articles.
The Playboy argument is a common one but a bad one, and I'll tell you why. If no one cared about the articles in Playboy it wouldn't exist in the form it does. There are plenty of other skin mags, most of which do not include any appreciable journalism or literary entertainment. So if Playboy's success were not largely (certainly not entirely) due to the articles, it would not exist, or at the very least would not be the clear cut most popular magazine to feature naked ladies. Of course dudes dig the boobs, but if they didn't like the articles they'd buy the competing products that feature way more nudity and little to no text.
For the record, I've never purchased a Playboy or competing mag, and I don't buy any sort of magazine anymore, because the internet. And I do like boxing for reasons other than brutality. If someone just wants to see knockouts and people getting hurt there's Youtube and a million other sites for that.
You realize that boxing isn't some new concept, right?
Of course it isn't, but in ancient times most men didn't live long enough to worry about anything like Parkinson's.
As already pointed out above, boxing does not cause Parkinson's disease, so please come up with a better argument.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?