The Pugulist - Is Boxing Wrong?
August 5th 2010 21:05
Classic bouts. Liston and Patterson, Ali and Frazier, James Braddock , Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Roberto Duran the list goes on.
I guess it stems from watching the great heavyweights as a kid on the small screen with my dad and recall with fondness the day I received a pair of red boxing gloves for my eighth birthday.
In fact I could spend a Saturday night quite happily musing over all the old clips of Foreman, Spinks, Holmes, Dempsey, Louis even Hollyfield and Archie Moore.
But of recent years, the fight game has fallen on tough times - and of its own doing. The once revered sport which found its halycon days in the 60s and 70s is now little more than street pugulism with none of the colour, none of the characters and none of the champions.
The 'sports' detractors would say that this was always the case - and that boxing is little more than sanctioned violence - emphasised only by the farce of a just a few years back with the daughters of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier hopped into the ring.
But what says you?
Is boxing just plain wrong or is it a justified 'sport'?
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