Get off you’re anti-boxing stance, mate

[RonPrice]

On 12 October 1853 during a heavyweight championship bout between John C. Morrissey and Yankee Sullivan, Sullivan left the ring to throw a few punches at a group of Morrissey supporters who had been heckling him. He failed to get back into the ring in time to answer the bell for the next round. Morrissey was, therefore, awarded the decision.-Ron Price with thanks to AmericanHeritage.com, American Heritage Magazine, October 2003, Volume 54, Issue 5.

In October 1853 the second Nayriz upheaval occurred in Iran in which 600 female and 80 or more male Babis, a cause that claimed to be founded by the Promised Qa’im, indeed a new religion in Iran then in its ninth year, were taken prisoner. With them the heads of some 180 martyrs were marched to Shiraz.


Bahá’u’lláh, the leading Babi, and His family had been exiled to Baghdad from Iran some ten months before. This exile is now compared by Baha’is to the migration of Muhammad, the exodus of Moses and the banishment of Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees to the Promised Land. Incalculable blessings flowed from Abraham’s banishment as they were destined to be vouchsafed to the whole human race.-Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, Baha’i Publishing Trust, Wilmette, 1957, p.107.

And you think boxing is a bloody sport!
It’s not even in the running with the sport
of religious and political fanaticism that
has been tearing our world apart for at
leas the last two centuries if not the last
several millennia, mate. Give it a rest this
anti-boxing stance of yours. Boxing is some
form of child’s play compared to, say, the
Mafia, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, just to name
a few of the moderns going back to, what?
Where would you like to start in the longue
duree that is the history of humankind?

Just get off your anti-boxing operatic stage
and all your pussy-footing around in the
midst of wars and rumours of wars that
are threatening, at this great climacteric
of history, to bring an end of civilization!

Ron Price
29 December 2008