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?