Israel Vázquez losing his eye.

i feel for him:|

wow:verysad

 

You mean like the jumbo inflatable boxing gloves that kids wear? How about no gloves and we just admit what it is?

You know 22 people die in motorsports every year. Should we get rid of cars too? No boxer ever got beat so bad that 80 spectators died when he got knocked out of the ring.

 

That's why I thank God that GGG-Khan never happened.

 

Not quite. The problem is, boxing's purpose is to hurt people in order to win. Pain and hurt is not a freak accident. It is a means to an end.

 

Yea the whole point of pro boxing is to cause as much pain as you can.

 

Quitting when you're shot is forgivable. If you just can't pull the trigger anymore.

But quitting while on top and at your peak is different.

 

Less and less good athletes will go into boxing, just like football, until it's dead I think. There's no shame in quitting if you're getting your ass kicked. It probably shouldn't be legal and I don't think it will be too many years from now.

 

The number of professional boxers and fights grows every year. They are having a renaissance of sorts in Britain and Eastern Europe right now and China, the most populous country on the planet, just legalized boxing for the first time in like a hundred years. MMA is just as brutal as boxing and it's doing great in America on regular channels and pay per view. Kickboxing is also back in the US and as popular as it was in the eighties. Meanwhile, Muay Thai kickboxing is the national sport of Thailand and they have crazier versions across the border in Laos and Cambodia called Lethwei where you can gouge people, headbutt, and lowblow.

So the opposite of what you said is happening. If anything, blood sports are getting more intense and boxing is going to have to get more intense to compete with people biting each other on the eye***** and carving each other up with swords.

 

Made my day lol

 

My friend in HS was on JV as a receiver. He did a stupid and jumped mid air for a catch between two defenders and got clipped on both sides, breaking his leg below the knee. Bones were sticking out of his leg as they carried off on the stretcher. He was 16 or 17 yrs old iirc, so yea, omg but bad **** happens in sports and its a choice they make.

Take away clean boxing and fighters will resort to the underground, which coincidentally they cleaned up and is now MMA lol.

 

of course they're gonna say that they're not gonna be 100% that'd be like john madden getting on the mic and going yeah junior seau took his life because of too many head injuries and playing for a corporation that doesn't give a **** and once you're done you're old news... no instead what he will do is go on tv and talk about juniors "private life" and how he was a "tortured" soul ..


mop up the blood keep the ride going ..smh I hate life sometimes

 

i think it was more brutal back in the days when he held onto a vine with one hand and punched with the other, until the commission ruled in favor of shorter trees.

you can always count on death, taxes & fights.

 

From Wikipedia's entry on Daniel Mendoza "In 1795 Mendoza fought "Gentleman" John Jackson for the championship at Hornchurch in Es***. Jackson was five years younger, 4 inches (10 cm) taller, and 42 pounds (19 kg). heavier. The bigger man won in nine rounds, paving the way to victory by seizing Mendoza by his long hair and holding him with one hand while he pounded his head with the other."