i dont thinks so because the players get really bad injuries and its hard to heal it

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I do not like any sport leads to hate your opponent

i dont think is good because is very dangrous .

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yes,boxing heart your body>>>>>

boxing can be dangerous and sometimes involve injuries and even death.

because it lead to hurt your opponent, and i think it likes a drama

No , boxing is for idiots who dont know how to fight.

The only good boxer is a pretty boxer.

Not many of those around.

If you can not beat a submission or a kick to the head then why bother

Take up a thinkings man game.

Boxers can not think when they are in mid battle cos they are stupid

Boxing is an idiots game

its bad because some players may get serious injuries..................................................................................

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no not really.

you just jump and hit people

its good for anger issues i guess.

Figures on how many participants there are, or what the injury rate is among members are not kept by either USA Boxing or Boxing Canada.

According to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database, 8,716 boxing injuries are seen to in American emergency departments. The authors add that numbers have grown significantly since 1990.

They found that 35% of injuries to adult and non-adult males that were not related to punching bags were to the neck and head, with an emphasis on concussions and lacerations. 8.1% of injuries were concussion across all age groups (12 to 34 years).

Bearing in mind that repeated blows to the head over time may be a risk factor for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, these are worrying statistics, the authors wrote.

Pediatricians are being called upon by both the AAP and CPS to strongly discourage children and teenagers from taking part in boxing. They should be directed towards other sports, such as volleyball, basketball, tennis or swimming. Chronic traumatic encephalopathyChronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE is a progressive degenerative disease found in people who have suffered multiple concussions and other types of head injuries. Dementia pugilistica, a variant of CTE, is mainly linked to boxing. Boxing can result in degeneration of brain tissue and the accumulation of tau protein.

People with CTE may have signs of dementia, such as aggression, confusion, depression and memory loss. These signs and symptoms may emerge within months of the injury, or several years later, even decades later.

A sport where the main objective is to deliberately hit someone on the head is not appropriate for children and teenagers, says the American Academy of Pediatrics in a new Policy Statement, along with the Canadian Paediatric Society. Their policy statement is published in Pediatrics, September 2011 issue.

Co-author Claire LeBlanc, MD, FAAP, Chair of the Canadian Paediatric Society Healthy Active Living and Sports Medicine Committee, said:

well it is of the boxers that to try to make the time of the sport in tangent to the timing for the fight. well juz here me at least out because the timing is off to the charts of the time it was perceived to be.

remember the saying

"if one cannot of to be in the time of the wolves you can only be of farther to the truth then your soul lies within you to be also with the flow of the tide."

Boxing should not be objected or remonstrated in an averse manner and it also should not be implemented for a business matter. Boxing is not an evil thing, not an evil human pretending to be a word, and not an evil mortal trying to shatter the ones you love.

Boxing is like money, it's evil when you love it too much, it's evil when you have exceeded your limits, but still continues to play for it one more time, and it's evil when a certain thing of hatred envelopes the total institution of it, not to mention the puppet show involved .

Boxing is not a barbaric sport, but for some who experience destitute, that's their way of living, the key to transcend their lives, and for some, they do it because they want to prove something. I don't what it is, but I think only 'they' know it.

My late husband started boxing at the age of 12 and was an amateur boxer for many years. At the age of 35 he retired and then developed hydrocephalus which is a brain condition and epilepsy which eventually killed him age 40. I blame all the years of bashing and pounding to his head (by the way he even wore a head/mouth guard) from boxing that did the damage to his brain, so yes I totally oppose boxing and would never let my child do it. It is a barbaric form of so called sport. My husbands specialists at the neurology centre told him it could have been caused by the boxing. Lack of experience and knowledge of what damage this sport can cause cost him his life and left his family shattered. I hate boxing.

Ok so first off i am a state and divion one boxer and second its not a sport to go into with reservations. On the other hand i dont want to discurage you. Pros of boxing your in great shape its an adrenelin rushand it forces you to train EVERY DAY ALL DAY that is very important one day can make the difference between a bruse or a cut cons its expensive equipment cost alone is about three hundred its brutle work your going to get hit and hit hard you have to be strong also brain damage boxers fracture hospitilisation jaw fractures and other health conserce like kindney inflamation and stomach bleeding all it all its difficult but if your really interested i would loveto help you more just email me at my yahoo and ill giveyou my direct email i would love to chat

I'm a lady. I have to say I find a great deal in common between boxing and ballet. Its very intense. It takes a lot of training. Both require the human body to go to extremes, but at its best both are beautiful to watch. I would have to say that is one of the things I favor about boxing.

Insofar as the cons, with boxing the main thing is brain damage as the result of head blows. Not seen so much in ballet. Both of them take a tremendous toll on the body.

"In boxing, children and youth are encouraged and rewarded for hitting the head. We're saying, don't put kids in a sport where hitting the head is condoned and encouraged," said Dr. Claire LeBlanc, co-author of the new position statement and chair of the Canadian Paediatric Society's Healthy Active Living and Sports Medicine Committee.

... Concussions in children and teens are of particular concern. Young brains are more vulnerable to injury, explain the pediatric groups. Recovery from a concussion takes longer in young people than it does in adults, possibly up to 10 days longer.

"We just can't say that repetitive blows to the head aren't dangerous. We have a much better understanding of concussions now, and repetitive concussions can have a negative impact on many aspects of cognitive function," said LeBlanc.

The studies are well-reasoned, and frankly, it's hard to argue against them. But boxing also has a unique draw for many of the youths who take up the sport:

"I think it's a well-intended statement, but I don't think that it takes into consideration the realities of who mostly gets involved with boxing. These are people that don't have, for the most part, your local golf course, tennis or basketball court as an option. These are youngsters, often from deprived backgrounds, that flourish with direction and flourish with having individuals take an interest in them. They are far, far safer in the boxing ring than they are out on the street," said Dr. Robert Cantu, a spokesperson for USA Boxing's Medical Commission.

Dr. Barbara Gaines adds this:

"If you're a parent and you're trying to choose an activity for your child, cross boxing off the list. There are alternatives for conditioning and athleticism."

And she is right, but this ignores what Dr. Cantu says before. There are, according to the article, 18,000 young people (under 19) involved in boxing in the United States. Now I don't know the demographics here -- I don't know what percentage of that 18K are from the deprived backgrounds that Dr. Cantu talks about, that we often hear about in the stories of young boxers, but for many of them, it's not about "conditioning and athleticism." It's about a way out of something worse, something more hopeless than even the dream of making it in a very hard sport.

Are any of you parents with a child involved in boxing, or are any of you parents who would discourage your child from taking up the sport? Medically, I don't think the risk is debatable. But there are other factors involved. It's not a black and white medical issue.

I meant in terms of deadliness, re the bikes. They are soooo deadly—used to read the lawsuits for Peugeot bikes back when they were good bikes, ghastly, ghastly spinal catastrophe and deaths of all kinds, over the handlebars head disasters, awful. I’m really not kidding, I’d feel much safer about a kid in a boxing gym compared to out on a bike.

As far as are they deliberately trying to hurt one another? Yes they are, and that’s good: In this world, they need to be prepared to do that sometimes, of course in self-defense. People need to know how to protect themselves physically, have confidence and a sense of immunity to pain—it’s part of survival. There are other great self-defense sports, obviously—karate, jujitsu, mma etc.—which one is best for which kid is a matter of what suits the kid, not the doctor. And there’s nothing wrong with a kid that just wants guitar lessons. But if excess energy/aggression, lack of confidence, lack of one-on-one relationship with any mentor is an issue, this is the sport that saves lives. They have no business messing with that. They just don’t get it.