Modern Day Fighters Research Paper

This prevents a lot of danger. There are very strict rules such as you can't kick someone who is on the ground, you can't hit in certain places. In addition, it is a sport. Sports such as hockey, football, baseball, and boxing are actually more dangerous due to the lack of rules within safety. There has been deaths within these sports but not one death has ever been recorded in MMA with the proper, closely monitored rule following.

Boxing, an official sanctioned sport in the early 20th century, is a sport that is known as one of the most violent and physically demanding sports on the earth. Professional boxers that get paid to fight must be in top shape in order to preform at the highest level. Being a professional boxer is a tough life. Boxers train hard for many months leading up to one fight and either win, lose, knock out the opponent or even get knocked out. The sport has been around for centuries, but has most recently taken off over the last 100 years. It is a multibillion dollar industry with fighters taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars if not even millions of dollars for big matches. In his novel Papa Jack, Roberts tells the story of the famous African American boxer Jack Johnson. He details the boxers rise to fame and fortune and his downward spiral that would soon follow. In Papa Jack, Roberts displays life of a professional boxer through firsthand accounts with events that happened during Johnson’s life and shows how boxing not only influenced his life but also how he influenced the African American community.

Elliott J. Gorn’s The Manly Art is a unique book that tells readers the origins of boxing in American culture. The book was published in 1986 by Cornell University Press, the book discussed the development of boxing and American society. Gorn takes sport history, a commonly misunderstood and misinterpreted topic and wrote a book that not only was easy to read but allowed readers to gain knowledge on the sport. Gorn says “To understand prize fighting, I have discovered, is necessarily to understand something about nineteenth-century America. Ideology, ethnicity, social class formation, violence, urbanization, gender roles, religious world views, productive relationships, all are a part of sports history in general and boxing in particular.” (Gorn, pg. 12)

Boxing is by far one of the most entertaining sporting events world-wide. There is just something about watching two individuals exchange primitive aggression out on each other. Norman Cousins Who Killed Benny Paret demonstrates the implicit hazards of the bloody sport called boxing. The story goes that, Benny (Kid) Paret, a prized fighter was coupled up against fighter Emile Griffith for a twelve round brawl on March 24th, 1962. Paret would soon suffer some serious injuries that placed him in a coma for nine days, and eventually lead to his death. In the wake of his loss, whom or what, is actually to blame for Paret’s death now comes into question.

Sixty years ago in a small town in rural Minnesota, there lived a rowdy young man by the name of Jack Smith. He had a very obsolete personality and could easily instigate a fight with anyone he met. By the age of seventeen, Jack had already been expelled from high school due to a myriad of reasons that included numerous fights. However, the final straw was when he hit a teacher in a fit of rage after Mr. Robencraw insulted his intelligence for failing yet another quiz due to his extreme procrastination. For years he wandered around Minnesota, a vagabond with no purpose in life. But that was until he met the legendary boxing trainer Rob Rammers , whose famous saying was scurry like a spider, sting like a scorpion. Meeting Mr. Rammers changed Jack's life completely. Under Mr. Rammers training Jack became a truly great boxer and soon, Rammers decided that it was time to take the world by storm. During his first fight, Jack was up against another powerful newcomer that was well documented and was the favorite for the fight. Jack was booed when e went into the ring, but he quickly quelled the crowd by delivering an instant knockout with his devastating right, and because of that right fist, he was thenceforth known as Bazooka Jack. His success did not

“The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks”- George Foreman. George Foreman certainly carried this quote with him throughout his life. He was never afraid to take risks when people would say he is to old to box he would take a risk go out there and prove them wrong. George Foreman is without a doubt a true modern day Renaissance man.

In Joyce Carol Oates’, The Cruelest Sport, she argues that boxing is a cruel and savage sport and that it should not be practiced or even considered a sport. The title of this work The Cruelest sport leads to the questions: Why is it the cruelest sport? Is it because of the physical injuries? Or is it because of the corruption? Oates argues that because the ultimate goal of boxing is to injury someone, it is a barbaric sport. Boxing is the only sport where two men climb into a ring and fight each other like animals. Boxing is harmful because of the injuries, wounds, and deaths that occur during every fight. Victory is usually when one of the fighters is knocked out. Victory is usually achieved when one fighter is unconscious. Boxers fight

In our lectures, the differentiation between fiction and non-fiction is the primary difference between s two books, as they describe the observations of real boxing matches in contrast to the imaginary world that Gardner creates in the success and failures of boxers Ernie Munger and Billy Tully. Munger is a young boxer on his way to a professional career, just as Tully is a semi-retired boxer that is slowly declining. The fictional story of the boxing world defines the brief moments of success that are countered by the more lengthy failures of boxing life. Tully’s alcoholism also defines the hardship of boxing life as he is often found at the local bar: “His hair and the shoulders of his jacket were soaked before he reached shelter in the nearest bar” (Gardner, 1996, p.164). In this style of writing, it is the fictional account of the tragedies of boxing life, which greatly differs from the realism of Liebling’s journalistic account of major boxing

Ethos is a code or an idea that illustrates what you, or your group, stands for, or how you conduct yourselves. It is a code of ethics that you live by and abide by too. There can be many differnet aspects to it depending on your moral standing of what is right or wrong. Some are born with a better understanding and ability to apply their specific ethos. This ethos is developed over time through the fires of adervsity. It is the chaos of what we call war that makes the warriors ethos. All cultures today have there variations of it.

IM has had no voice in whether or not he wanted to enter the boxing ring, or participate in the battle royal. In Tewarie’s article we learn that the Battle

Millions of people worldwide take part as spectators to the sport of prize fighting: better known as boxing. In a 1962 essay entitled “Who Killed Benny Paret?” the author, Norman Cousins, writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. Even though investigations reflect the role of the referee, Paret’s manager, and the doctor’s examinations as the main cause of Paret’s death, Cousins blames Paret’s death on the people that attends boxing matches to see a man get hurt or knockout because he

Here in America competition is important it’s so important that it could be considered one of the driving forces behind our nation. It’s in everything and everywhere from the food we eat to the cars we drive. Some say we are too competitive but in reality we may not be competitive enough. In the last few years many countries around the world have been taking over the market such countries as China and India. Competition will help us get our economy back on its feet. Also, it will help us build a stronger more powerful military. Lastly, it will help give people jobs and homes. Honestly what is not effected by completion so why not be as competitive as possible.

basically standing room only, and then going on to give you a blow by blow account of the fight.”Yes,

I Believe in being the best in UFC Fighting, because I believe I can be the best at fighting coming from my family, they are fighters as well as I am. As in Boxing, MMA, Jiu-Jitsu, (ETC.) The person who influenced me to keep doing this was my mother her name is Laura. She is the funniest and most loving person I know. She can be very strict with me as well, that has helped me over the years to focus on fighting and being respectful to others. My mother had told me a motto that i will never forget, “Never give up on your dreams of being the greatest fighter that you want to be in the future, don’t let anyone put you down let yourself conquer your fears. Keep fighting to get to the top, and destroy your opponent.”

present day. Since 1998, there have been over 70 boxing related deaths, while in sanctioned MMA