BOXING A SPORT?

1.       

       Boxing is a heinous crime, legalized and masquerading as a sport;

2.       From start to finish a boxing bout, from the choice of gloves, to the rulings on what are considered legal and illegal punches to defeat the opponent, barbarism is very evident in the sport;

3.       The punches of a boxer are aimed at immobilizing his or her opponent with a strike on the head or a body. Even a medical doctor would readily agree that a punch on the head could cause a blood clot in the brain;

4.       In boxing, the only target is to defeat the opponent by making him or render the other as a human vegetable, unable to think, to stand, to move, to act or any other state that would render him/her unable to continue doing the sport;

5.       History says that boxing was supposed to have started in ancient Greece under a ruler who allowed two men seated in front of each other to fight to death. In Rome, it also became a sport where fighters were usually criminals and slaves who wanted to earn their freedom;

6.       Two ancient rulers were humane enough to have banned boxing: one was Caesar Augustus, also known Octavian and was considered Pax Romana or Roman Peace, and Theodoric the Great (500 BC) who had great respect for Roman culture and was the patron of Philosophers and historians;

7.       Manuel Velasquez, a man from Florida compiled a list of injured boxers and fatalities. He started this research after his friend, Nego, a Floridian boxer was committed to an asylum after being diagnosed as being mentally incompetent due to head injuries caused by engaging in boxing.

a.       In his research, he mentions that the USA (according to the Journal of Combative 45; South AFriSport written by Joseph R. Svint) tops it all with 590 deaths followed by England with 143. Australia with 65; Japan and Mexico with 45; South Africa with 34 and on the 7^th place, the Philippines with 29;

b.       Ruptured blood vessels in the brain, heart conditions and head injuries were the usual causes of boxing deaths;

c.       The American Medical Association in 1983, called boxing an obscene sport that shoud not be sanctioned by any civilized society. The AMA claims that “three out of four boxers who have twenty or more professional fights show some brain deterioration;”

d.       The British, Canadian, Australian and World Medical Associstions also want the game to be abolished;

e.       The American Neurological Association and the American Academy of Neurology share the same views;

8.       The country, after undergoing the People Power Movement in 1986 should already lead all the nations of the world in condemning the sport as anti-democratic, inhuman and only lit for barbaric situations which shod ot exist at all in any human society;

9.       All national and local officials should be banned from engaging in the sport as they are putting up the mistaken role of a committed public servant to the young generation. Boxing is a dangerous sport for the yung, and any official who engages in it is setting up a negative and crude example of being sporty.

1   Engaging in boxing could cause brain damage and make an official render irrational analyses and discussions of political problems besetting the society, the country and the world in the name of internationalism; and

A need exists for a legal decision to decide if the sport should be part of Philippine culture at all.



Construction molle avec Haricots bouillis : Prémonition de la guerre civile, 1936, Dalí.