Posted on 04/05/2005 8:21:29 PM PDT by crushelits
Spare us.
If so it'll just be another on the now fairly long list of new and ridiculous Olympic "sports."
Female boxing is as much a waste as t!#ts on a wh#@*re.
No boxing--this is NCAA:
Catastrophic-injury research
Direct injuries
The number of direct injuries per 100,000 participants for college sports from 1982-83 through 1995-96:
Male
Sport -- Fatalities -- Nonfatal -- Serious
Baseball -- 0.68 -- 0.00 -- 0.34
Basketball -- 0.00 -- 0.54 -- 1.09
Cross country -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Football -- 0.48 -- 1.71 -- 5.81
Gymnastics -- 0.00 -- 27.44 -- 9.14
Ice hockey -- 0.00 -- 5.49 -- 5.49
Lacrosse -- 0.00 -- 1.45 -- 2.91
Skiing -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Soccer -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.48
Swimming -- 0.00 -- 0.91 -- 0.00
Tennis -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Track -- 0.43 -- 0.43 -- 0.64
Wrestling -- 0.00 -- 0.98 -- 0.00
Female
Sport -- Fatalities -- Nonfatal -- Serious
Basketball -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Cross country -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Field hockey -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 1.39
Gymnastics -- 0.00 -- 9.13 -- 0.00
Ice hockey -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Lacrosse -- 0.00 -- 2.34 -- 0.00
Skiing -- 14.13 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Soccer -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Softball -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Swimming -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Tennis -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Track -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Wrestling -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Indirect injuries
The number of indirect injuries per 100,000 participants for college sports from 1982-83 through 1995-96:
Male
Sport -- Fatalities -- Nonfatal -- Serious
Baseball -- 0.68 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Basketball -- 5.98 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Cross country -- 0.74 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Football -- 2.19 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Gymnastics -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Ice hockey -- 1.83 -- 1.83 -- 0.00
Lacrosse -- 1.45 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Skiing -- 9.49 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Soccer -- 0.97 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Swimming -- 2.74 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Tennis -- 0.92 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Track -- 0.21 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Water polo -- 6.81 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Wrestling -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Female
Sport -- Fatalities -- Nonfatal -- Serious
Basketball -- 0.64 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Cross country -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Gymnastics -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Ice hockey -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Lacrosse -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Skiing -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Soccer -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Softball -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Swimming -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Tennis -- 0.97 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Track -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Water polo -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
Wrestling -- 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.00
I don't get it, Templar.
Not anymore . . .
I personally have always hated boxing in particular. Watching two people with broken noses and damaged brains trying to pound each other into oblivion is not my thing. It is particularly unseemly to me for women to be doing this mostly for the sake of telling men "nyah, nyah, nyah, we can do ANYTHING you can do". I realize it's supposed to be a free country, and women's libbers have pushed hard to gain all this "liberation" for women.
I better start encouraging my kids to take up a sport besides skiing. Yikes!
Skiing is not kind to either gender.
More specifically, trees and rocks encountered while skiing are not kind to either gender. Neither is "large wave of snow coming off mountain at 80mph."
Have you ever seen Christy Martin or Leila Ali fight? Those girls are real boxers. As a boxing fan, they impressed me. There are some women who can do anything as well as men can, even boxing.
A PhD and she steps into a ring to let people cause TBI.
Smart.
Sad.
Frankly, the best female boxers are about as talented as marginally skilled male amateurs. And the latter would quickly dispose of the former in any bout of equal weight due to the conspicuous differences in strength and quickness.
"And the latter would quickly dispose of the former in any bout of equal weight due to the conspicuous differences in strength and quickness."
Well, yeah, but only because you won't let us bite, scratch, kick, and bend pinky-fingers backwards. :D
Sure, but it is still more entertaining than women's basketball..... The problem is that there are not enough female boxers yet. And, I do disagree, Laila Ali is a brawler. She has dominated all of her fights. Agreed, the competition is meek, but she knocked Christy Martin out in four rounds. 20-0 is a great record in boxing, regardless of your sex.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
To watch two woman hit each other is simply disgusting.
To pretend they are boxers is nonsense.
Amen!
And no man should want to watch it.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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