Professional boxing has been around since the nineteenth century. Yet today, many years on, arguments as to its recognition as a sport, in regard to the dangers involved, are still a common occurrence among sports enthusiasts and the general public alike. Many boxers have suffered serious injury, brain damage and even death. Supporters of the sport point out that these can also be consequences of a game of football or rugby. Many would say that this justifies boxing.
Boxing has a long history, a history of many superior battles of body and mind and of exhibitions of the limits of human strength and also a history of lives being taken for entertainment. However for many people boxing is their life. With many coming from backgrounds with little opportunity, discovering boxing has given them something they can do well. Furthermore b
oxing seems to legally satisfy a hunger among our race for the crudest form of physical competition.
Recently it has been suggested that many ringside doctors lack specialist training in anaesthesia. Doctors trained in anaesthesia could potentially have the knowledge and equipment needed to save the live of boxers. This is the basis of proposals recently presented to the boxing authorities. These proposals - which include the situation of all boxing matches close to a neurosurgical hospital and stricter medical checks on competitors - could potentially save lives, and could also prove a valuable weapon for campaigners defending boxing.
Since the introduction of Queensberry's Rules, supposed to make boxing safer, over five hundred deaths have occurred as a direct result of boxing. Nevertheless deaths and other injuries do occur in other sports. Import
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