Boxing

[Corel]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

Also, heavyweight boxing fascinates me. From everything I've seen heavyweights start hugging within three seconds from getting within punching distance of each other, and then it takes 10-30 seconds to separate them so they can fight. At least 90% of the fights are spent on the fighters holding each other in their arms. It's cute.

Not to be a smart allack/to anyone interested, this is a tactic usually employed when one guy (or both) has been gassed and doesn't want the other guy to score any points (or knock him down). The time grappling can allow time for the boxer to recover. In later rounds gassing becomes much more frequent so hugging can commence more frequently.

I had assumed Boxing's popularity had majorly decreased in the past 20 or so years and has only recently started to get off it's feet again. With the rise of MMA in certain places in the world (Which only has become main stream in some countries in the past few years) Boxing might have to find ways to pull more viewers/betters.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

It's not helped that the current heavweight division which is the moneymaker in boxing is considered the weakest its been in a long long time/

[Hanuman]

Interesting tidbit: Many more people are killed in boxing than before they started using those gloves.

What are gloves? More mass, more area dispersal and slightly slower transfer of energy, which means the force isn't concentrated and it's too slow to be absorbed into the skin destructively, which means if you get hit in the head your brain is going to smash into your inner skull, and since it's not as intense a feeling you can stay upright for longer.

Bare fights you'll get lots and lots of injuries in the bone and cartilage instead of just bypassing them.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Lev

What are gloves? More mass, more area dispersal and slightly slower transfer of energy, which means the force isn't concentrated and it's too slow to be absorbed into the skin destructively, which means if you get hit in the head your brain is going to smash into your inner skull, and since it's not as intense a feeling you can stay upright for longer.

Bare fights you'll get lots and lots of injuries in the bone and cartilage instead of just bypassing them.

Just to clarify this, bare-knuckle boxing prevented a lot of the strikes that are now responsible for causing brain damage because you'd either break your hand or it just didn't connect the same way.

So while bare-knuckle was bloodier, it was ultimately less fatal.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Also dudes weren't pussies in those days.

[DFM]

I don't understand why people like football it's just running around with a ball. Why do you like football? Is it the violence? Is it the skill of the athletes? Is it their dedication? Do you watch "Any Given Sunday" every week? There are much more interesting sports than football for you to be watching.

I don't think a football is a very good Christmas present.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by DFM

I don't understand why people like football it's just running around with a ball. Why do you like football? Is it the violence? Is it the skill of the athletes? Is it their dedication? Do you watch "Any Given Sunday" every week? There are much more interesting sports than football for you to be watching.

I don't think a football is a very good Christmas present.

One could argue neither is a broken bone, and probably a bit more easily, which is why some of us find cage fighting so baffling.

[Nique]

I don't understand why people like football it's just running around with a ball. Why do you like football? Is it the violence? Is it the skill of the athletes? Is it their dedication? Do you watch "Any Given Sunday" every week? There are much more interesting sports than football for you to be watching.

I don't think a football is a very good Christmas present.

lol trollin'.

[DFM]

So playing sports is baffling because you might get hurt. Or, for boxing, because you will get hurt.

It's almost like an athlete thinks having fun/competing is worth enduring physical pain.


What madness drives them to such folly.

Edit:

Originally Posted by Nique

lol trollin'.

Even though I'm not, this thread would pretty much deserve it.

[krogothwolf]

Originally Posted by DFM

So playing sports is baffling because you might get hurt. Or, for boxing, because you will get hurt.

It's almost like an athlete thinks having fun/competing is worth enduring physical pain.


What madness drives them to such folly.

Don't forget the adrenaline high you get from it! Man, Adrenaline high's are the best thing ever! Combine that with totally destroying someone with a clean open ice hit and man, the feelin you get is awesome! I miss playing hockey Damn knee's getting wrecked from a knee on knee hit