Boxing: Down For The Count
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The tenth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines boxing as
"the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport." I could be
mistaken, but there is a certain emphasis placed on the idea that boxing is
practiced as a sport. It is rather ambiguous. Is boxing a sport ....
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.... supporters have deluded
themselves into thinking that boxing, when properly conducted, is safe. The
classic justification goes something like this: "[b]oxers are not two brawling
brutes seeking to maim or kill each other. [t]hey are two closely matched
athletes seeking, through the use of such skills an footwork, timing, accuracy,
punching, and feinting, to determine who is the better man in the ring" (Farley
26). Unfortunately, dead boxers tell a different story. A study on dangerous
contact ....
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