"Show me a boxer and I’ll show you a kid with an unhappy childhood"

Great post! I typed something similar below without seeing this. I also feel it could be about perception rather then reality.

 

I'm sorry I missed this post before I typed something similar about Froch. I agree with you that small incidents like this could have this affect.

Although of course one off incidents like this doesn't necessarily mean they had unhappy childhoods overall.

 

Now this is the analogy we all can agree to!

 

this...^

its what drew me to boxing and why i love it...

 

Muhammad Ali did NOT have a good childhood. He wasn't as poor as others, but his father was an abusive drunk and the police would frequently arrest him. His father once slashed Cassius's leg during an angry drunk episode.


At the 1:35 mark

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Klitschkos are an exception to this....

 

Really?:huh

 

This is what drew me to boxing in the first place, growing up with my own issues. Boxing used to be about the best, however capitalism ruined boxing!

It's sad, but boxing is at it's best such as the past few weekends. Under-dogs rising to the top and making a name for themselves, hopefully some money. What I hate about boxing is that it's all about profitability and marketability. That is why there is so much dodging, watering down of belts, long negotiations, etc.

I'd rather see the best fighter win the belt and earn the most money, not the most popular.

 

is this iceveins from youtube?

 

Agreed :good

 

Yeah, understandable. I kind of thought about that when I was typing, but forgot to mention it. Look at how many sons turn in to boxers though. I'm sure even if they didn't have a rough life a lot of dads want there children to box if they were great pro boxers...Plenty of dads that weren't great want there children to box.
Nothing wrong in teaching your child to defend himself, but I think people take it to far with forcing there children to do things such as compete.

 

Boxing is the noblest tradition in the world.

As a huge fan of it, I resent the implication that someone necessarily has to have deep-seated trauma or psychological/developmental issues to become involved with it at a serious level.

OK, it may be the case a majority of the time. That's probably just more of an indication that a majority of people have deep-seated issues than a specific correlation between lacing up the gloves and having a rough life (which is a total cliche).

 

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As a sport it is great. It is the modern day equivalent of Roman gladiators.
Noble? Far from it. Nothing in this business or its tradition equates to being noble. In 100+ years of its history, it has been controlled by various Mafias, corrupt sanctioning bodies, gambling institutions, objectification of women, violent felons is so common it is not even that big of a deal now, etc, etc.

There are noble individuals, but as an organized sport, it is about as corrupt as you can possibly get outside of being an underground sport like street fighting.