To: Crackingham
2 posted on
04/05/2005 11:34:58 AM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: Crackingham
Getting punched in the head isn't a good thing, period.
3 posted on
04/05/2005 11:37:48 AM PDT by
csvset
To: Crackingham
Involuntary euthanasia?
4 posted on
04/05/2005 11:39:36 AM PDT by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Crackingham
I think it was an article I read in the Weekly Standard a few weeks ago, but the description of female boxing was incredibly ugly. There are like a handful of female boxers (Laila Ali and one or two others) who fight with any degree of skill (hollywood images aside). The rest just flail at each other. The ringside audiences are the ugliest part of the spectacle.
5 posted on
04/05/2005 11:40:48 AM PDT by
sinanju
To: Crackingham
oh....thought it was a different boxer
6 posted on
04/05/2005 11:42:01 AM PDT by
stylin19a
(Always remember - don't ever forget - "2 wrongs don't make a right, it's 3 lefts that make a right.")
To: Crackingham
Another "equal opportunity for women" we can thank the FemiNazis for.
7 posted on
04/05/2005 11:42:40 AM PDT by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: Crackingham
I think I heard about this. Didn't the trainer suffocate her after finding out she was going to be paralyzed?
To: Crackingham
Am I a horrible man for wondering what this chick looks like??
9 posted on
04/05/2005 11:46:21 AM PDT by
RockinRight
(Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
To: Crackingham
Boxing (or martial arts) with headgear has always had this issue - the padding does help with direct impact, but it adds to the moment of angular force when the blow is glancing and can actually make things worse. Unconsciousness (and death, and long-term injury) is caused by the breaking of capillaries as the brain actually moves with respect to its container.
Dumb sport - and I used to do it.
To: Crackingham
Where was Clint Eastwood?
18 posted on
04/05/2005 12:01:58 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Crackingham
Didn't some woman get killed in a "Tough Man"(aka: Stupid People) contest?
21 posted on
04/05/2005 1:00:03 PM PDT by
sticker
To: Crackingham
I've never understood the sport... so many former boxers end up kind of messed up.. what kind of life is it beating up and getting beaten for a living?
22 posted on
04/05/2005 1:32:35 PM PDT by
Awestruck
(Yes, prayer does help and it is important~!)
To: Crackingham
Sometimes I wonder about it; a sport where delivering a concussion is goal.
To: Crackingham
....I like football, but the object is to score a touchdown; I like racing, but the object is to cross the finish line first.
In boxing, the object is to deliver a negative medical condition to your opponent.
To: Crackingham
Boxing: dumbest and most barbaric sport in modern history.
30 posted on
04/05/2005 4:37:37 PM PDT by
Sicon
To: Crackingham
My grandfather was a professional boxer. I can't stand the sight of women boxing though.
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