Many images comes to mind when a person thinks of the word sports, such as tennis, golf, basketball, football, baseball, swimming and bowling. Throughout these friendly competitive challenges of skill, fans watch as players do bouncing, hitting, passing, dribbling, throwing, or rolling a ball to knock over pins in order to score points. On the other hand there is a sport that remain where the object is to deliver blows to an opponent’s body or in order to achieve points. In boxing two powerful, strong, men or women, square off and contest in a intelligent punch off to see who will be knocked out first. This sport is boxing, a brutal exchange of jabs, hooks, uppercuts, and other swings that may eventually knock one athlete down to the canvass …show more content…
Boxing has been in existence since 3000 B.C. and have evolved from many forms of fighting to this recent type of fighting, a form of entertainment as we know it today. Boxing is considered a skill sport, very dangerous, high ambition, and passion. Professional fighters must have a strong love for the sport. Many people may think that boxing is a somewhat modern sport, but the fact is that boxing is one of the oldest sport in the world. People, approximately six thousand years ago in Egypt used boxing as a way to protect themselves, their families, and their land. Boxing then extended to Ethiopia and finally throughout the Mediterranean area. In 688 B.C. boxing became an Olympic sport. The Romans came up with the invented the boxing ring, rather than using chalk on the ground to mark off an area for fighter to compete. Boxing has come along way since ancient times to present day life. The basic rule of boxing still stands to knock your opponent out to win. Boxing has always been a cruel sport. A boxer risks injury and takes their life into their own hands each time they step in a ring. For the entertainment of people …show more content…
Fighters that obtain permanent brain damage may later be diagnosed with the Parkinson disease. Studies show that over half of the professional boxing population both past and present have permanent brain scars. Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to participate is the sport was diagnosed with Parkinson’s syndrome, a disease that is common to head trauma from activities such as boxing. Now the boxer whom experts still today address as the champ cannot walk without the aid of a cane and can barely speak.
Death is the most serious outcome of the continual beatings to the brain. Oscar Gonzalez and Duck Kim or examples of professional boxers that have suffered death for the love of this sport. Both fighters received many crushing blows to the head leading up to result of death. Nobody expects these types of things to ever take place in boxing, but boxing is a physical, dangerous sport. The cushioning of the gloves offers protection for both fighters but the human body can only endure so much. The number of punches to the face and body professional boxers endure during their career is unstable for the human
Yes they might get paid handsomely but the lifelong damages it causes to the boxers are overwhelming. Life expectancy goes down even more when it comes to boxing because boxers have no head protection so if they get hit in the head it will cause severe
The novel The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow is a story depicting the exploits of Karl Stern, a fourteen-year-old German boy who’s jewish ancestry has branded him as an outcast in a developing Natzi Germany. Karl, along with his sister and parents, live in an art studio in an unspecified town in Germany where he attends school, and aspires to be a cartoon artist. Karl begins experiencing shortcomings in the year of 1934 when he experiences strong animosity from his fellow classmates as word of his jewish lineage becomes public. Despite never setting foot in a synagogue, Karl gets expelled from school, his property vandalized, and beaten by self proclaimed Hitler youth. Karl begins to spiral into a spout of depression and self-hatred
Remnick does not shy away from discussing the shadowy history of the boxing world (no pun intended). It's well known boxing has been affiliated with the 'mob,' but perhaps what is lesser known is Clay's absolute refusal to be in any way associated with the Mafia.
Injuries are common in most sports that have a contact component attached. Whether it’s at a professional level, or a school level, injuries are always bound to occur in contact sport. This analysis will look into the role headgear could, should and would play, and debates whether it should be made mandatory. Olympic sports such as Ice Hockey, Bicycle Riding and Baseball are just some examples that currently require athletes to wear a form of headgear. However, Australian contact sports such as AFL and Rugby give the option for players to wear headgear for protection. In 2011, 14 year old Ben Robinson was hospitalised after being treated 3 times in a game for head blows in a rugby game . In 1994, professional boxer Bradley Stone died from head injuries whilst boxing against Richie Wenton . Examples like these show the brutality of contact sports. Because of this, my paper will look at the issue of headgear in contact sport and will particularly look at this issue at junior sports level.
James Braddock took his father’s lessons to heart when he practiced fighting in the old schoolyard before he reached his teenage years. He practiced for several years to be an amateur fighter. When Braddock first started boxing he avoided professional competitions for two years. Instead, they froze the title, which means Braddock earned money touring the country giving public appearances and boxing exhibitions. In 1926, he entered the professional boxing circuit in the light heavyweight division.
Boxing was earlier known by the name Pugilism ,meaning “sweet Science”(The Editors Of Encyclopedia Britannica).Historical evidence lead to the fact that boxing was prevalent in North Africa in four thousand B.C, it was also popular in Greek and Rome(HOB).Now Back to MMA, the fastest growing sports organization in the world ,the Ultimate Fighting Championship(UFC),started in 1993 as a professional mixed martial arts(MMA) organization(UFC). UFC matches take place inside the Octagon ,an eight-sided structure comprised of metal chain link fence(Britannica). The fence is six feet high and allows for 30 feet of space from point to point of the Octagon(Britannica). For a fight recap if a kickboxer was matched with a brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, the kickboxer would realize that he must become more adept at defending takedowns ,thus prompting him to train with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner(UFC). From that point forward ,competitions were no longer between athletes who focused on a singular martial art ,but between to an athlete with two are or more
"By a knockout, at one minute…seconds in the second round...tonight's light and heavyweight winner...from the great state of New Jersey...the Bulldog of Bergen, James J. Braddock!" Boxing was a sport that always existed, but in the 19th century boxing became a very popular sport. It was so popular that "boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908" and in the 1930's it even "spurred the sales of radio" as it was broadcasted on them. Boxing was the "second most popular sport in the nation," the first was baseball.
Being a professional boxer didn’t do much for his mental health because he says he would feel on top of the world and yet so lonely at the same time after a fight. Therefore, he suffered not only the physical demands, but the mental demands in the professional arena of the sport.
Contact sports in America, like football and boxing, carry a rich history of the spirit of the game, and the feeling of victory. These games bring us together as we cry out and cheer for our team or fighter as they deliver the winning touchdown, or the knockout that brings them the undisputed champion belt. However, these players are facing injuries that can destroy their career and affect their brain for the rest of their lives. We shouldn’t outlaw contact sports, but we should force safety to become more important. If we want to keep our players safe and continue the tradition of the contact sports we enjoy as a country, then we must evolve our safety in sports, and change the way we view contact sports as a country.
Hard checks, high-impact hits, rough blows, knockouts, crushing tackles; some violence occurs naturally in some sports. Those naturally violent sports (e.g., football, hockey, soccer, wrestling, and boxing) with all that aggression and violence excites audiences and enhance enjoyment. However, aggression and violence in sporting competitions are clearly becoming an issue. Destructive aggression is often deliberate and frequently encouraged by coaches, spectators, and teammates. This aggression in becoming increasing accepted by the public and ever popular in today’s sporting events. Michael Strahan a player in the NFL said in 2007 that, “It’s the most perfect feeling in the world to know you’ve hit a guy just right, that you’ve maximized the physical pain he can feel….. You feel the life just go out of him. You’ve taken all this man’s energy and just dominated him” (Coakley, 2008). Clearly, Strahan’s words show the acceptance of aggressive behavior and even glorify this aggression.
Contact sports today, such as hockey have had serious effects on the health of athletes. Perhaps the most common injury in hockey is the concussion. Modern day equipment has increased the health and safety of athletes across all ages. Organizations such as the National Hockey League have recently taken precautions in effort to reduce the occurrence of the injury. The argument here is that numerous players and fans disagree with the recent changes that have been made to the game due to the injury. The argument represented is that leagues such as the NHL should focus more on the players causing concussions, rather than changing the game that we all love. The altercations to the sport have helped
This stating of terms of the definition of sport is arguably the most prominent of arguments in this chapter. As Donald Kyle, author of Sport and Spectacle, rightly suggests, some may indeed question his approach to the exclusion of fencing, duelling and gladiatorial combat. Whilst other reviewers such as Stephen Instone comment on Poliakoff’s general lack of argument, and some just waive this chapter as satisfactory, All...
Boxing Should Not be Banned In recent years, there have been many campaigns to try and have boxing
to all that is barbarous in man”(11). In conclusion, a ban on boxing is not only illogical, but impossible! In my mind. if you want to minimize the number of actual life-long injuries related to. sports, you would be better off coming up with elaborated rules for motor.
Wrestling can be traced back to cave drawings during the ancient times. According to one source,”... wrestling has been around since people started to recorded history. In France there are cave drawings of people that are wrestling that are about 15,000 years old. The Egyptian and Babylonian people had wrestling bouts that were using most of the same grappling techniques, and throws that we know today (Wrestling History). The sport of wrestling came from ancient Greece. It was used as an exercise to train Greek soldiers for battle. Ever since then, the sport has changed dramatically (Different).