How dangerous in boxing? Is it one of the most dangerous sport ever?

Agreed, pro body building can be dangerous. But regarding cardio - they do lots and lots of low intensity cardio, particularly in run up to events. The lethargy pro body builders exhibit is a lot to do with oversize mass for their poor organs to cope with.

 

Everything is an activity including boxing. It becomes a sport when there is “An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. ”. So yes all those activities are sport whether you think so or not.

 

I think what makes boxing different though is the objective of the participants. At its core boxing is about one man physically hurting another man. And causing enough pain and damage that he cannot finish the contest. To essentially force a stoppage of the match.

Its guilty pleasure. But where do you draw the line? They're not gladiators. There are no weapons used. So it's not warfare.

 

Boxing is dangerous at all levels. However, one of the biggest issues is weight cutting, which gets even more dangerous as fighters get older. This had an impact on Hopkins later in his career as far as his durability and stamina, but he was lucky enough to retire without suffering any major issues (that we know of), but Adonis just happened to not be as lucky. Oscar also tried to cut weight later in his career against PAC, which resulted in his body pretty much crashing after a few rounds.

 

I'd say the biggest problem with MMA fighters is how reckless they are when they spar and train. My good friend, who won on the Ultimate Fighter was a very promising UFC fighter, but got his career ended by a guy sneaking a knee in when they were doing grappling practice. Boxers (some) tend to spar and train in a more organized fashion, which is why they usually have longer career than mma fighters.

I used to visit mma and muy thai gyms a lot around 10-15, since I used to help a friend run an mma promotion and as a former athlete I was shocked when these guys were taking flush elbows and roundhouse kicks without headgear along with the dumb coaches egging the young guys on. I even seen Ronda Rousey back before she signed with the UFC and her training was also reckless, so I wasn't surprised when she started having knee problems and needed surgery.

 

Seriously, **** cave diving. I'd rather base jump or bullfight than do that ****. With those you've got to face one danger one fear. But cave diving is the sum of all nightmares. Hello drowning in a dark confined place. Who thought that sport up? An *******, that's who.

 

Dangerous, but not substantially more dangerous than any other number of sports, or unnecessary human occupations. Rock climbing and hiking kills more people per year. A lot of morally bad, paid, non sporting professions also have a worse or comparable death toll.

Hypocritical bull **** that boxing gets singled out by anyone for a ban.

 

Semantics. Not all sports are competitive or even athletic. I have a particular disdain for ball sports myself but most people consider them legitimate. At a certain point a distinction must be made between sport and game. I think that billiards, chess, or cards are games of chance and skill. Archery is a sport because of the athleticism required. Darts is not. If you can play it in a bar with a beer in one hand, maybe it's not a sport. Golf does take some athleticism which separates it from pool. Tennis is sport and ping pong is game. Hunting and target shooting are sports, even though you rely on manipulating machines, just like race car driving is also a sport. There are all kinds of sports that don't fit into the usual boxes we tend to associate with balls, fields, and tracks.

 

Yes without a doubt.

 

Nothing ***** about American Football I dare you to get out on a football field with a rugby uniform on and see how long you last. You wouldn't make it one play before you would be leaving with a severe concussion or worse.

 

Most dangerous? Probably not. Most damaging? That's a hell yeah IMO.

 

It's nature, competition at it's most primal, what all those other sports are substitutes, imitations, abstractions of and are trying to be. It's the only real one that isn't pretending to be something else. You go out in the wild, you see the same thing with every animal. Two bucks locking antlers, or rams butting heads in a field. We're establishing pecking orders or competing for mates. Because we're animals and that's what is in our nature to do.

 

Pro cycling is pretty dangerous

Flying down mountains at 70mph in lycra and some massive skin removing bunch crashes in 50mph sprint finishes.

Lots of broken bones a few deaths

 

Sure it is, but we don't want to make too big a deal of it. We don't want to attract the everyone-must-live-in-a-hermetically-sealed-plastic-bubble-so-people-will-know-what-a-wonderful-person-I-am-for-being-an-advocate-when-I-post-my-selfies-about-it crowd. They will KusTFO6 with onerous regulation. We gotta' be stealth.

 

I agree to an extent. Males of all species try to prove superiority or dominance over other males. Except human beings can reason which adds a whole other element to everything. In our species it's mostly about social dominance. And while physical violence can lead to more social dominance (you can kill or threaten your rival), it generally does not lead to much clout. Not many brutes have been true leaders of men.