Boxing needs to change!

In my opinion The ultimate responsibility falls on the fighter and his team. There have been fighters who have stumbled back to their corners for several rnds and came back to win. It’s a part of boxing where some guy uses their endurance to beat a more skilled fighter.

As other have said, how do you prevent death or serious harm when the goal is to knock your opponent out. Also why is boxing vilified when a boxer dies while other sports are just as dangerous and has more death but are not vilified. More die and have serious injury mountain climbing than boxing.

 

On average 13 boxers die a year. I didn’t think it was that high. Still safer than mountain climbing According to the article below.

"This fatality rate is lower than or similar to the rates of other high-risk sports, such as college football, motorcycle racing, scuba diving, mountaineering, hang gliding, sky diving, and horse racing," said the AMA report

Each year, 13 boxers on average die in the ring - CNN

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/17/sport/boxing-deaths-patrick-day-spt-intl-trnd/index.html

 

a really good post with some excellent ideas and observations

the only thing I would find hard is open scoring, I love back and forths when we don’t know if the judges are seeing it as ourselves. The emotion of the decision on fighters faces can’t be beat