Pain and Suffering: The Physical and Mental Toll of Losing in Boxing

You would think every member on here has tasted victory and defeat while collecting different belts by the way they judge fighters.

 

People on this site are so quick to call fighters "bums", "overrated", or "cowards", when just getting in the ring means they have more courage than most people on here ever will.

 

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Please pick another sport to watch. Seriously. :dead

 

boxing can be a highly trauamtic sport

 

For 98 percent of pro boxers a loss means they need a day job and their pride is hurt as is their body and brain.

For the elite 2 percent they get the same except they cash out.

 

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless." -Ernest Hemingway, about his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, in A Moveable Feast

 

Are they courageous manly men, or are they a bunch of dim witted thugs who should have stayed in school? Frankly, I have more respect for cops, fire fighters, and school teachers who have more useful/dangerous jobs which never afford them the kind of pay days or fame we give to pampered athletes.