May 17, 2001 04:34 PM
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Simply the word boxing brings out vastly varying levels of emotive response ranging from real passion for the sport to hatred of the sports incumbent violence.
Every single human being on this planet has a natural propensity towards violence. Only a thin veneer of the indefinable value that we call “civilisation” separates us from the use of that ability. As a result the use of the highly emotive language that has been used in the pursuit of banning boxing I find very frustrating. I fully respect peoples opinions and their wish to see what they construe as organised savagery stopped, but I personally believe that it would be dangerous to ban the sport altogether. The four main reasons for my opinion are laid out below
A: Banning the sport will force it underground creating an uncontrolled environment for the matches to take place in.
B: Medical attention is liable to be sparse if any and if somebody suffers the same injury as Paul Ingle there is very little chance of them ever reaching hospital let alone receive the care that they will need.
C: If it is forced underground it is highly likely that it will degenerate into bare knuckle fighting where anything goes and the participants are far more likely to take or deliver both mental and physical damage on a permanent basis
D: Underground fights will see a massive increase in illegal betting thereby losing betting tax money that could be ploughed back into the hospital system as an example.
The sport engenders a sense of discipline to the competitors through their strict dietary, exercise and training regimes. Anybody not capable of sticking to the incredibly demanding requirements will soon leave the sport succumbing to an almost Darwinian process of natural selection. Obviously the sums of money available play a big part in the attraction of this sport but any fighter stepping into the ring has an informed picture of the dangers they are placiing themselves in the way of and by doing so they are exercising their right of freedom of choice.
It is a bloody, brutal sport and nothing I say can change that but at least at the moment it has governing bodies and codes of practice that are there for the protection of its participants. I really enjoy watching a good boxing match and any man, woman or schoolchild (I refer to the fight between two English schoolgirls that took place at the beginning of May 2001) who climbs into the boxing ring has my every respect.
