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Should Boxing Be Banned?
If the long-standing question “should boxing be banned?” is thrown at you
what would your ready reply be? Will go you for a NO answer or boldly say
YES, or better yet leave the decision to others, lest you would strain your
mind in finding the most substantive arguments to justify your answer. Let
use us see what others have to say on why we should or shouldn’t banned
boxing.
A group of medical doctors in Europe more specifically the British Medical
Association would definitely answer YES if the were asked the question
should boxing be banned. BMA posited that boxing could ultimately affect the
boxers in so many ways. According to BMA, the powerful punches that boxers
throw to their opponent are enough to make each other faint and unconscious.
The repetitive blows that hits the head of the boxers can practically
damaged their brains, thus affecting them in the long run.
The brain is likely to be the most vulnerable part of the boxer. During the
exchange of punches, there is a tendency that the blood vessel in the head
bursts inside therefore creating a clot, once this happened it would create
pressure to tissues of the brain. This might not be manifested at first, but
the effects can surface, as the boxer gets older.
Take Muhammad Ali for example who is now living with a Parkinson’s disease
which experts claimed to have been confounded by the numerous head blows he
had during his heydays. Good for him that he still alive. Unluckily for
those who succumbed to death and witnessed their dreams fade away in an
instant. In this case, should boxing be banned? The answer is absolutely a
reverberating YES, at least as far as the BMA is concerned. Other medical
doctors and countless others would surely agree in unison
Should boxing be banned? The question still echoes in the many alleys of
boxing gyms and in the halls where great boxers were immortalized. The
countless of men and women who have dreamed of better lives for themselves
and for their families still cling to the hopes that the sport of boxing
could offer them. Despite the numerous casualties that this sports had
claimed even during the times of Plato, Socrates, and Julius Caesar, still
the number of those who want to make it big in this profession is
incessantly increasing. Should boxing be banned for good, they are the first
who are most likely hurt in which the effects is even more unbearable than
those punches they received from their opponents.
For some reason or the other boxing has been the vehicle for some people to
be afforded with equal treatment. As the case of Muhammad Ali’s rise to
fame, it provided an impetus for countless others to be respected and
treated equally. So can you blame those people are willing to swallow all
the risk that this dangerous sport can give?
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