Boxing is Not Just "Fighting" -- Where Are The True Champions of the Past?

 

I've been a boxing fan since my first Cassius Clay match against Sony Liston, which was literally in another century. Since that time my love for the sport never waned.Since I'm a pretty peaceful person in daily life those who know me are surprised that I prefer boxing so much. Perhaps it's just "displaced and sublimated aggression," they suggest. Whatever. It's all fine with me.

What I understand is I actually do respect the one-on-one test that two super athletes proceed through whenever they step into that ring. That's the ultimate "moment of truth." Once you are in that ring there are no excuses. No alibis. No nothing. It's you against the human body and mind against your opponent and against God and the whole world. It's a hardcore moment like none other in life.

And having watched that terrible Boom Boom Mancini match some twenty-odd years ago where his Korean opponent was actually killed (Mancini left boxing after that shock), I understand that this "game" is in fact serious business. It's in contrast to make-believe "professional wrestling." So which makes me respect professional boxers even more.
However, within the past 10 years some entrepreneurs developed various "fighting" categories as an "alternative" to boxing. They figured, "hey, this is actually the New Rome! Give them blood, and they'll not just take it but they'll also whip out their credit cards and purchase it right immediately!" Which is true, up to certain point.

But I can't watch these new "fighting" matches for a long time where just about all goes except eye gouging. It's usually an extremely ugly sight which makes me feel ugly for watching it - the sort of feeling that I never get when I'm watching a championship boxing match.After แทงมวยออนไลน์ watching a boxing match I'm that I've watched something worthwhile and amazing to witness where the greater athlete won his due rewards fair and square.
After watching one of these brilliant new "fighting" contests I recently get depressed. That's why I don't watch them anymore.

First there is the "Strongman Contest" where two males, whether athletes or not, were just released in a very cage. The "contest" ended when one of them threw in the towel in a hurry. It was not pretty. I watched twice and never did it since.Probably plenty of boxing fans reacted to the "Strongman" like I did so considering that the "show" was canceled following a while.Today we have a new breed of "fighting-in-a-cage" violence fest in that your brawlers are at least well-trained athletes wearing leather half-gloves. The matches are a mixture of boxing, kick boxing and "back alley violence." I think head butts and eye gouging are "illegal" but the rest is fair game.

Gone is the ballet-like grace of regular boxing. Gone is the veneer of "organized sports" the place where a referee intervenes on all our behalf to be sure that the greater athlete is set with as little physical damage as possible to the contestants.And how will you "analyze" a brawl where there are few accumulating advantages (like "body shots") that reveal their effects just how, let's say, a knight move reveals its long-term impact ten moves in the future in a chess game?Probably "fighting" will survive and prosper as far as the TV and box-office gross is concerned. It will likely do well as a niche "X-sport." There will probably always be adequate 18-to-24 year old beer-soaked males to aid it as a business.

And true boxing fans like me who've known the sheer power, grace and the heart of an Ali, Sugar Ray, Hagler, Benitez, Duran, Holmes, Holyfield, Frazier, Foreman or Hearns will continue to worry about the fitness of a noble sports category which could or may not survive to the future.Ugur Akinci, Ph.D. is just a Creative Copywriter, Editor, an experienced and award-winning Technical Communicator devoted to fundraising packages, direct sales copy, web content, press releases, movie reviews and hi-tech documentation.

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