Do you agree or disagree with this quote?

Haha, true. Nice avatar.

 

You is a cute lil troll. Yes, you are. Yesh, you are.

 

I agree. Guys like Kobe Bryant and Lebron James Have it much easier than Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley.

 

Well, boxing is one of the ultimate machismo sports, so in boxing it's far less forgiveable to quit with an injury than it is for some other one-on-one sports, or other individual sports.

A boxer's reputation is virtually made and broken on his ability to suck it up and battle on regardless.

So all in all I agree, but it does depend on the injury.

 

Am I wrong though? Honestly.

 

Once had of all things a poetry professor say nearly the same thing to a class I was in, "that boxing was the only sport were the purpose was to separate your opponent from his consciousness," staring at me the entire time he said it. He went on to say that he still watched, that he couldn't help himself, that he was drawn to hit in a primal way.

Saw Muhummad Ali last night on the benefit for Haiti. He came out in a wheelchair. He had a prepared statement of his read by Chris Rock. Muhummad Ali, maybe the most erudite, articulate, alive! fighter of our times in this condition. The truth is I felt guilty, for all the times that I cheered him on, for all the times I expected him to go beyond himself.

 

Disagree for the large part. It's true to an extent. But NFL guys are tough SOBs and so are basketball guys sometimes. It depends on the individual and the risk allowed. But safety precautions are more and more thought of in this day.

 

You mean Arsenal or Chelsea

 

That is the moral conundrum a lot of fight fans find themselves in, me included.

 

It is. I love the game, but hate the price that so many of these heroic warriors have to pay, sometimes long after they're out of the ring.

 

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