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Does boxing really annoy anyone else :banghead:
I think it's pathetic, I'm just watching What Katie Did Next and it showed her cage fighter boyfriend winning a fight and now she's going on about how proud she is etc right infront of her son Junior. It angers me! :banghead:
We've got a boxing night at work on Thursday and loads of people are going, it's £25 a ticket with a small meal included and they are saying that it's a good price as it's the boxing they are paying to see, it's really entertaining and worth the money. They think I'm a prude for not going, I fail to understand why anyone would want to go? It really does annoy me :banghead: They go every year, and every year I say I don't want to go, and every year they go on about what outfits they will wear to the boxing etc, I just don't get it!
I think it's pathetic, I'm just watching What Katie Did Next and it showed her cage fighter boyfriend winning a fight and now she's going on about how proud she is etc right infront of her son Junior. It angers me! :banghead:
We've got a boxing night at work on Thursday and loads of people are going, it's £25 a ticket with a small meal included and they are saying that it's a good price as it's the boxing they are paying to see, it's really entertaining and worth the money. They think I'm a prude for not going, I fail to understand why anyone would want to go? It really does annoy me :banghead: They go every year, and every year I say I don't want to go, and every year they go on about what outfits they will wear to the boxing etc, I just don't get it!
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(hah thats makes me sound bad lol)
But my point is it does (like any fighting sport) need a hell of a lot of skill - reading your opponent, stamina, and so on. It isn't just a couple of guys hitting each other for the fun of it becasue they can. I've never really watched it, but yeah what i have seen is a bit brutal for my liking, i wouldn't say it was pathetic though.
was down watchin the local amateur finals there on friday, great craic, cant beat the atmosphere!
I used to do TKD and loved everything except the part where it was okay to kick or punch me in the head.
Cage fighting is very different to boxing. They are not the same.
Boxers are some of the best all round atheletes in the world. I used to get down the local club as a teenager, loved every minute of it.
I don't see why anyone would say it's "pathetic", as others have said boxing is a technically demanding and skilled sport. Fighters and martial artists choose to do it, it's not like someone being beat up in the street.
That said, I know a couple of cage fighters who are cocky twats! But still good to watch the sport.
I have done martial arts ect. but I'd never consider it a job, and I definatly wouldn't talk about how proud I was with my kids (if I have any)
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Uh... have you heard of rugby, or (American) football, or any other contact sport in the world? Hitting people as sport is not exclusive to boxing nor is it an indication of a lack of quality or tradition.
You're hitting someone as a sport, you're being paid as a professional athlete. This isn't some sort of job where you do shake-downs for the local loan shark. If you've got problems with people being paid to be athletes that's another issue...
Yeah, but rugby isn't just hitting people.
There is, quite obviously, more to it than that. Considering the whole ball and more than two people thing...Oh, and the huge field.
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well i dont know very much about sports :] but the aim of boxing is to knock each other out right? (correct me if im wrong!). i know rugby can be pretty gruesome with the massive tackling each other, my friend plays rugby and he is huge but hes aaaalways injured, but they're tackling each other to get the ball right? not just to injure each other.
If your objection to boxing is that the object of the game is using violence to beat your opponent then the principle remains the same.
I don't like rugby much though.. I'm a football person really :-)
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(keep in mind I'm not an expert when it comes to boxing but...)
Matches in boxing can be won through knock outs, technical knock outs (where one person might not be unconscious but the ref determines that it would be unsafe to proceed), or through a vote of the judges at the end of the match based on various skill categories.
The difference is how you score in the two sports. In rugby you score by moving the ball into the try-zone. In boxing you score by landing using technique to land calculated blows.
Well, isn't one of the main rules in society, and what most people are raised to believe... Do not hurt anybody else.
therefore, watching two people hurt one another, and then those two people being payed seems immoral to me.
Anyway, Yeah I like boxing. But it is wrong.
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I'll call your attention again to the fact that there are hundreds of other sports out there where doing violence towards other people is the key element to the game. If you're basis of morality is to not hurt other people (even in the context of consenting competition) then all of those other sports are similarly immoral.
I wondered how long it would take for that to come up, but right now I don't want to talk about that.
I will say this though:
Boxing is a sport, yes. But if hurting others is wrong than why should we watch it?
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:yes: I agree. I think sports like that are just wrong really, but I do enjoy them.
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So, why do you bring up the fights I've had then? Most fights are a two way thing, are they not?
In fact, take this as an example: The other day a group of year 11's and a group of year 8's had a huge fight. Most the year 8's got hurt. They all took part willingly in the fight, but it was still wrong in the minds of most.
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Read the thread you got that from again. I never wanted a gang, love. Anyway! That's all behind me now, and I've moved bands, forms, and classes at school.
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