An interesting read, though the layout gave me dizzy spells and I think I might need to lay down for a bit.

There are obviously risks involved with boxing. Sometimes tragedies happen, but I think todays boxing is so much safer than it has been in the past. I would never want to see boxing banned, the risks fighters take are their own and they choose to do it. And I see it as an incredibly brave thing to do and to dedicate oneself to the trade is a means of minimising risks further. Boxing has done a whole lot of good and involving people who just want to fight. I look at people like Barrera, Calzaghe and even Wlad Klit. who have sharp minds and faculties well and truly intact over a career of boxing. I look at someone like James Toney who probably wants to do nothing else with his life ever given the chance. It's a brutal sport, but I don't hear about tragedies day in day out. It's awful when they happen and getting hit in the head cannot be good for you. But it's a way some people choose to live and I can see nothing wrong with that. It's up to them to try and get out before they take too much punishment and I think most fighters know that point eventually. Not my most most coherent post and just a collection of thoughts more than anything.