Everyone has dreams of being rich, flying their own helicopter or owning a fancy house. We would like to have high paying jobs but for many people this is not the case, these people simply are not the academic types. Most young men and women who grow up in rough neighbourhoods have only two things going from them, there ability to use their fists and their ability to ride their opponent's punches. It is these abilities that are their passports to a better life for themselves and their families. These people are intent on using these passports to the best of their ability until such times those passports finally expire. Many take up boxing because they like it. Not because they're forced into the ring or made to fight. They are men who love to fight not to inflict pain on someone but because fighting satisfies one of the basic urges in the boy or man. That is the urge to be out there on your own, proving th

Every boxer is aware that there is death in the ring. But in the 35 years that followed the 2nd World War, there were only 12 fatalities in Boxing around the world, three of which concerned foreigners whose countries might not have had the same high medical facilities. Meanwhile people still climb mountains. Yet there is no campaign to stop the climbing of M. Everest. Racing drivers and motorcyclists lose their lives with alarming rate and seemingly appalling ways. Where boxing suffers in comparison to other sports is that when a tragedy occurs on a field or a track it is always regarded as an accident. Yet how can anyone seriously accuse boxers of getting into the ring with the intention of killing? Physical pain is part of the lives of all of us and experiencing it doesn't do us any harm - in the long run. If boxing was to be banned, we might just as well stop people driving fast cars or even playing soccer and rugby, for the risk factors are just as great.

Boxing is always under heat from critics as a violent sport but it is very different for a person who hasn't taken a punch to appreciate that pain in the ring is totally different to pain outside the ring. It is the difference between caught 'cold' and being caught 'hot'. For instance imagine walking into a street lamp-post accidentally. The knock will almost certainly bring you to tears because it was unexpected. But when you enter the ring you know you're going to get hit and all your concentration is on getting to the other fellow. It's a completely different situation. The boxer's adrenaline is pumping. His mind is preoccupied on tactics and targets an

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