Some Say Boxing Is A Sport

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Thursday, February 5, 2026 17:08
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I'm not going to get huffy or defensive about being wrong.

The truth is, I don't care. Most people don't, billionaires or not.

Most people don't want to be part of a nanny state culture that coddles them with kid gloves in their padded cells. Especially men.

If you take football and other sports you take issue with away from them, they're just going to find other ways to hurt themselves and each other. This is doubly true for those young enough to still live under that delusion that they're the bright shiny center of the universe and they're invincible.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Jack - I edited out that part and I apologize for it. It was unnecessarily personal. I also added that if kids (4) want to do that to themselves, or each other, that's on them. But we as a society shouldn't be paying for 100% of them to get provably damaged through official school auspices (5).

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Jack - I edited out that part and I apologize for it. It was unnecessarily personal. I also added that if kids want to do that to themselves, or each other, that's on them. But we as a society shouldn't be paying for 100% of them to get provably damaged through official school auspices.

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No worries. I try to overlook these things since I like you even though we don't agree on things and things can sometimes get heated between us outside of the G&R thread.

I don't know the answer to the question. You're not wrong. I'm not denying the science behind this. But you can't deny the science behind the reasoning that people use when they choose to do these things or the science behind why folks find these things so entertaining either.

I'm sure for the kids, the potential to be famous and have a lot of money is a factor, but I think most of them would do it just because it's fun. Kid's smoke because it's fun. Also, arguably, because they're not supposed to. The same with drugs.

I brought up the billionaires just as an example of why these sports will never go away. It's not just the billionaires making money here. Eliminating football up through high school would negatively impact the lives of so many people all the way down to the hot dog and beer vendors. Nobody is going to choose watching chess as a sport as an alternative to football or boxing who isn't already doing so.

As for why people are so entertained by these things, I couldn't personally say. They've never held any draw to me, and when I see friends and peers talk non stop about football or join their fantasy leagues I think of them as being like little kids that never grew up and are living their lives vicariously through others that won the genetic lottery and can do things that most of us would never be capable of. If you eliminate these sports, you also eliminate the catalyst of whatever chemical neuron-firing reward mechanism millions of people enjoy while rooting for their favorite teams or players.


At the end of the day, I take a pretty nihilistic approach to this, as I do with most things. Sure... they're kids. But so what? Most adults suck. Kids are just future adults that are most likely going to suck. Maybe if I had a kid of my own I'd be put in the hypocritical spot of caring about an individual more than I do the collective, but I don't. Like I said, I think steroids should not only be legal in professional sports, but they should (and would) be mandatory (since nobody could even compete without them if they were legal).



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"Who are you or anybody else to decide that for them?"

I think any sport that routinely results in brain damage should be banned in elementary, middle, and high schools. After that, whatever people chose to do is fine with me.

But it seems crazy to me that people are being permanently brain damaged just so some Joe Sixpack can get his steam up on a sunday with his beer and chips and buds, and turn off the tv and forget about it till the next game. Sheesh. Talk about life being cheap. We might as well have a sport where people play Russian Roulette.

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I can see that argument, but the truth is that we have those sports and kids still do their own back yard wrestling. We banned cigarettes for minors and weed was illegal everywhere, yet kids have always smoked both and they're doing meth all over the country.

Kids are going to find plenty of ways to handicap or kill themselves. Intentional or not. With the potential of actually making a life or getting a free ride to college or not. Whether we like it or not.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I don't know if you are just reaching, or if you are lost on some tangent.

Can you provide links to your meth sporting leagues, or Meth championships, or Meth wagering pools?
How is Meth scored? If you live, you win?

Can you provide links to your Cocaine sporting leagues, or Cocaine championships, or Cocaine betting pools? How to score - if you live that round, you win that round? Or is it the total number of hits before you die or become paralyzed?

How does that work?
How does that compare to Professional Sporting Events?


In several cultures, sports are fashioned after the simulation of the Warrior Ethic. War combatants, or Professional Warriors, are held to high esteem by those who appreciate Freedom and Liberty.
How much damage or injury a warrior can withstand and still remain effective in Combat Theater is a real equation, resulting in success or death not only for the individual warrior, but for the entire Unit, Army, Nation. Many of these sports are testing the durability of head beatings which compromise the ability to think clearly, which is still needed to accomplish Victory.

Here I'll post a quote that I provided in another thread:

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I've never been up in the air in a hot air balloon. I know absolutely nothing about it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Generally speaking, potential Pilots are assessed regarding their flying aptitude.
Not so hot, you get helicopters. Rotary wing.
Better, you get cargo planes, like C-130, C-5, etc. Fixed wings.
Better, you get assigned to Bombers. Fixed wings, but more finesse than cargo.
The best, you get assigned Fighter Jets to Pilot. Categorized as Fixed wing, but can be Delta wing (extended for subsonic flight and landing, tucked in for supersonic flight in Interceptor mode).

Fighter Jets do mid-air combat against other aircraft, dogfights. If Bombers or Cargo birds have air-to-air weaponry, it is really only defensive.
In Top Gun, it was all about Dog-Fighting. In the F-14 Tomcat Delta wing fighter.

In Dog-Fighting, it is all about the superior performance of the bird and Pilot. The Pilot who can pull tighter Gs in a turn can prevent the enemy behind from achieving Missile-Lock on him, and also can achieve Missile-Lock on the enemy when pursuing. The Pilot with the better performance is usually the winner and lives for another fight. The second-best performance of the 2 combatants will lose, ending their flight, usually their plane, and often their life.

So the ability to pull Gs is critical. Pulling Gs drains blood from your head, making thought more difficult, but also taking away your vision. Fighter pilots maintain fitness regiments to keep their cardiovascular system adequately supporting their mission, to achieve higher Gs. Most Fighter birds in th

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