Did anyone hear this drivel? That woman had less than half a clue about boxing. I liked her definitive statement on boxing: "The whole of boxing is focussed for one thing - to cause the other man brain damage. It doesn't belong in a civilised society. I wonder how many street lads she's seen using their gym as an unpaid shrink for their family troubles, friend and community troubles, and earning themselves a quality of life and pride of soul, not material as much as spiritual, through the massive effort of guts and heart in the face of an almost unbreakable wall of financial and emotional blocks, as well as tough chunts who wanna change the shape of your face. Boxing helps. Argue the individual pluses and minuses yourselves, it's a sport of skill, discipline, inspiration, mind games, planning and negotiation, strength and stamina; there'll always be those of us who GET IT, and it will never die, underground or not.
Maybe it has no place in a civilized society but as long as there are humans aroun, we will never be civilized. We are animals. Whats civilzed about invading overseas countries? Whats civilzed about training young men to do this then not looking after them when they get injured? Society is far from civilized, fighting is a very natural, human instinct
She is right. The sport has roots in rattling the brain against the skull in order to render the other man unconscious.
I heard this yesterday on radio 2, her and frank Maloney were going at it. She didn't have a clue and neither did vine.
My question to her: would you rather Del was allowed to get (the majority of) his aggression out in the ring, or down the pub? Boxing is a force for good.
People like her will never accept that stance. They've all crawled out of the woodwork these last few days. I haven't known it this bad since the spate of ring injuries in the 90's.
****ers make me sick, if there was a punch up on dancing on ice or that gay factor shite they would be ****ing loving it. Craicless ****s.
The most annoying thing is that the mainstream media get to have their cake and eat it. They leave boxing well alone 99% of the time when British boxers are winning titles, or actually giving prime column inches to stuff that is actually ruining boxing, like bad judging etc. But because a ruckus is a good story, they're all over it like manky flies on a particularly choice turd. But you wouldn't expect any less. Leave boxing to sort out it's own without all this stupid hysteria. The running battle in the press conference was dumb, but entertaining. It reminded me a little bit of that scene in the pool hall in Mean Streets, for some reason.
i repeat a point i made yesterday - if you get a chance watch the bath -gloucester match from saturday several mass brawls which involved far more violence in front of thousands of people. of course that was posh rugger-buggers , so that's alright then from thisisbath.co.uk The game began with an intensity worthy of great Bath-Gloucester clashes and it took only three minutes for the tensions to boil over. Locks Ryan Caldwell and Jim Hamilton were yellow-carded after an all-in fight broke out, and the half was punctuated by off-the-ball dust ups. http://www.espn.co.uk/rugbyunion/sport/video_audio/136910.html (as a taster!)