Thread: Renewed calls to ban boxing after death of Aussie fighter

Renewed calls to ban boxing after death of Aussie fighter.


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Originally Posted by jacksonmann

Renewed calls to ban boxing after death of Aussie fighter.


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Obviously this kinda questions going to be questioned when a young boxer dies in the ring. And it's in Australia, I'm surprised his opponent didn't get sentenced to lifetime.

May he rest in peace and I hope his family and friend the best!

How about banning drones, arms trading and the police? These are far more dangerous than boxing.

Originally Posted by Gandalf

How about banning drones, arms trading and the police? These are far more dangerous than boxing.

yea, also drugs ans coffee

Originally Posted by Gandalf

How about banning drones, arms trading and the police? These are far more dangerous than boxing.

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This kind of puritan anti boxing stuff really pisses me off actually. You have all these shitty things going on in the world mostly caused by psychopaths and then you get an individual tragedy and the emotion is whipped up to say ban boxing. Screw those people with their BS! They are cockheads. Governments must fall before they ever touch boxing. Hypocrites. How many people die in boxing? How many lives has it saved? Boxing is a valuable and fantastic sport. Do gooder idiots.

Originally Posted by fan johnny

Originally Posted by Gandalf

How about banning drones, arms trading and the police? These are far more dangerous than boxing.

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Originally Posted by Gandalf

This kind of puritan anti boxing stuff really pisses me off actually. You have all these shitty things going on in the world mostly caused by psychopaths and then you get an individual tragedy and the emotion is whipped up to say ban boxing. Screw those people with their BS! They are cockheads. Governments must fall before they ever touch boxing. Hypocrites. How many people die in boxing? How many lives has it saved? Boxing is a valuable and fantastic sport. Do gooder idiots.

Exactly what I wanted to say but you worded it better.

Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust

Originally Posted by fan johnny

Originally Posted by Gandalf

How about banning drones, arms trading and the police? These are far more dangerous than boxing.

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Banning things is usually the easiest and most primitive solution to any problem.

I'm sure alcohol causes more brain damage on a global scale, not to mention deaths and torn families. Ban that then.

It's a pussy mentality surrounding this new daft model of masculinity; bashing physical violence just because it's in your face and you can't look the other way like people do with all kinds of phycological violence.

Originally Posted by jacksonmann

Renewed calls to ban boxing after death of Aussie fighter.


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Oh, boy... here we go.

If they're going to ban boxing (which they won't), they'd better ban MMA first.
At least in boxing the punches stop coming when the other guy falls down.

Originally Posted by TitoFan

If they're going to ban boxing (which they won't), they'd better ban MMA first.
At least in boxing the punches stop coming when the other guy falls down.

Both are brutal sports, but the logic is that there's less head trauma in MMA (in general) than boxing. If a guy gets knocked down in MMA, usually the opponent will jump on him and throw a few punches (usually not landing clean) and the ref will stop it, whereas if a boxer gets knocked down, he'll get 10 seconds to get up and clear his head to take more punishment. The bigger boxing gloves allow a fighter to take more concussive blows to the head without being knocked out (in comparison to smaller MMA gloves), and history shows guys really don't get killed with one punch or on a quick, brutal KO - like this case here, boxing tragedies always happen after prolonged punishment. But yeah, I think if you get rid of one you probably have to get rid of all combat sports.

Boxing is a brutal sport, there are real consequences to getting your brain rattled over and over, and it's always going to be a hard one for the general public to accept because it's one of the few sports where the objective is to give your opponent brain damage.

It's obvious here in the US boxing is making an admirable push to become network mainstream. It's a sport in what tragedies will undoubtedly take place. The first time something of the sort happens on network it does concern me what calls for change will come about. Will we see pros wearing headgear? I'm glad boxing is going network but it does concern me what movements will come about to make boxing safer.

I don't think headgear makes it any safer if the new studies on concussions are correct.

I don't think you can make it safer. It's a relatively primitive sport and you're always going to have that kind of stuff happen now and again. I really don't think the push to ban boxing is going to have enough support, to be honest, unless it were to happen in a huge fight like Pac/Mayweather. People rally in big numbers when they have self interest in mind (i.e. is the activity a threat to them, is it corrupting their children, ect). Boxing violence just really isn't a hot topic.