Why do you love boxing?

You'll be fine buddy:yep you've allready showed a maturity beyond yer years in yer decision making process, it's whats called the "can do will do" factor, one note of caution is be careful who you allow (people who know you box) as yer friends as you'll attract the **** whole use yer name to sort out his own **** ups:smoke

 

Oscar De La Hoya got me into boxing.

I like boxing because it presents us with the kind of unbridled masculinity that doesn't exist in our timid, metro-sexual, politically correct society. There is no specific or practically credible moral justification for human beings engaging in such barbaric and dangerous behaviour. I like that fact that the justification comes from traditionally abstract concepts like honour and pride.

I like the purity of it. Two men, a pair of gloves and a ring - in which there is no where to hide. There are no substitutes in boxing. There are no transfer fees. You can't buy success. You have to earn it. I like the unpredictability of boxing, both inside and outside of the ring. The anticipation, excitement and occasional disappointment of match-matching; wondering which fights will be made, who will fight who, and when it will happen - all these elements keep boxing fresh.

Inside the ring anything can happen. It doesn't matter who you are, once punch can put you on the floor. I love how styles make fights, I love how every boxer fights in a different way. I love the personalities; the good-guys, the bad-guys, and everyone in between. I enjoy the subjectiveness of boxing, and the debate which the unstructured nature of the sport incites. I love the fans who put it at the centre of their lives, who care about whom should be ranked above who, which achievements are significant and which are not. Those knowledgeable guys who can put things in context.

That's why I love boxing.

 

Why do I love boxing ? :think

The art of one man vs one man in their own perfected style trying to best the other while millions watch with all that pressure on their shoulders appeals to me greatly.

 

Yeh, just imagine the nightmare if that ***** Harriot Harmon was prime minister, she wants boxing banned:scaredas:

Just this morning i had some verballs with some 30 something women at the spinning class, i'd told-em i'am of too the Cotto/Pacman fight & the whole gang chorused OH thats so Barbaric, i would'nt let my son box which led too my reply: well then, thats the reason why we've got all these beckemesque ***** boys around today then & you lot are always complaining about there's no good real men around anymore, you're all **** mothers, I'am popular ME:smoke

 

Sir, I salute you :good

 

Few, if any, sports are as pure as boxing. One man battling against against another in the most primitive way possible---a fight, with no sticks, balls, equipment, etc.

Boxing also requires, by a wide margin, the most intense training of any sport.

I love the training, the styles, the strategy, and the unknowns---you never know what is going to happen. There is NOTHING like a big knockout in sports. No other sport has such an "end". Other sports have points and a time limit. Which boxing does too---the decision win. But where boxing has something over all others is the KO element.

The rules of boxing also really allow each man to test their skills to a higher degree against each other, unlike MMA where there are just too many fluke variables that can end a fight. A guy who lost one night could win the next against the same person in MMA. In boxing, you are actually able to get a sense of who is the better fighter.

Boxing can have its low periods, but when it is at its best, I think it has the highest high of any sport.

 

Good post.

The irony for me is that my dear old mother doesn't mind the sport at all, and my two sisters really like boxing. It's my younger brother who's the one who thinks it's pointless. I've tried to explain it, but he just doesn't get it.

Now girlfriends are another story...never had one who liked the sport.

 

I really like this bit. Nicely said.

 

Absolutely, boxing is so much more than just a game. Consider the sheer amount of courage that it takes for a boxer to step into that ring when you know you could die at any moment or sustain permanent brain damage; it's like war on small scale.

I think something like 10 boxers die per year on average worldwide.... How many others end up with some form of dementia later in life? Everyone should applaud these brave men.

 

My dad and I used to watch boxing when I was a little girl. Back then, Mike Tyson was the absolute ****. However, I later developed a huge crush on Lennox Lewis. Oh, that hair. Georgeous.

 

Why does grass grow green?

Why do birds take to the air?

Why do I love boxing?

 

:good:good:good

 

I too frown at the effemination of the male today.

Boxing is a metaphor for manhood and there is little "Beckmanesque" about it.

 

My dad loved boxing -- took me to all the gyms and shows in New York. I think boxing 'n I'm a kid again.