**Questions on the unionization of Boxing (J.A.B.)**

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Joint Association of Boxers

The unionization of boxing has been a topic that has been tossed around the sport for many years.

A boxing union should be one that protects the athlete's interests both physically and monitarily. Through the years we have seen many a boxer that would have bennifited from such a union. One that shoots into my mind is the G MAN, Gerald McClellan.

Gerald has been in bad shape for years being taken care healthwise and moneywise by his two sisters who are over the house in shifts.

Boxing, although not viewed this way, is still one of the safest sports out there. There are less deaths and serious injuries per year in boxing then say... American football(highschool, college or professional). But deaths and serious injury still happen. Ask Gerald. just one of scores of fighters

American baseball has a union... So that no one can f**k with the millions apon millions that these guys make per year.

Now, I am a big baseball fan. I live in boston and have been a RedSox fan my whole life so don't think I'm a hater cuz I love baseball season... But in all honestly... Who needs more help when the clapping ends... Manny Ramirez, who slaps a ball around a field and halfassed runs a few hundred yards or Gerald McClellan who has lost most of his functionality due to his sport he so valiently and wholeheartedly competed in?

I know what I think the answer is...

Why has J.A.B. not become more prominent in the sport? I have done some research on them but most of the information on both the website and the internet is so vague it's hard to even know what they're all about. When looking into it, it seems that only a few former boxers and some other fairly obscure boxers like Gary Balletto and others are part of it.

Are there other unions I am just not familiar with?

Why has this sport, of all sports been left behind in unionization?