Is boxing an entertaining sport, or is it a violent slaughter match between two men.

AS and A Level Physical Education (Sport & Coaching)

When watching boxing either beside the ring or at home on TV, it looks safe, or so you think. Every year at least one boxer gets very badly injured. Some even get brain damage, and in extreme cases some have died. We at ‘Sport on five’ call for a ban on boxing.

Some people don’t realise, but boxing is actually two men going out to beat each other up. Boxers main aims are to go out into the ring and so badly hurt their opponent that they fall to the ground and can’t get back up again. It’s a horrible thought, I know. They try and hit their opponent’s most vulnerable points, which is also their most delicate points, for example their heads. Which can lead to brain damage.

If you were to look at the other sides view, you could say that boxers know their own risk, but that’s not good enough. Some people have grown up and all they know is boxing. Boxing is their life. If the sport of Boxing weren’t around then they wouldn’t grow up and be part of that sport, they might get involved in something like soccer or rugby. Then maybe they wouldn’t get so badly hurt, and ruin their lives.

You could say that there is other sports were you can get injured, but boxing is the only one ...