Why Mike Tyson Should Be Banned Boxing

The match was quickly forfeited by Tyson in the third round for literally biting a piece of Holyfield’s ear off. Tyson claimed that in his defense, biting Holyfield was retaliation for Holyfield’s illegal head butting. Tyson was disqualified and Holyfield automatically won the rematch. In addition to disqualification, Tyson also lost his purse (payment for the match), had to pay $3 million in fines, and lost his boxing license. Tyson’s over aggressive was a shock to the nation. Being a highly anticipated fight, it set a record for pay-per-view television at over two million home viewers. Tyson was reinstated and received his boxing licenses the following year in October of 1988. During the year, Tyson faced more fines and assault charges resulting in almost $100,000 in restitution and 200 hours of community service. It seemed as if Tyson had not learned his lesson, or was simply out of control. Following reinstatement and fines, Tyson was forced to forfeit a victory against Andrew Golota in 2000 after a drug test found him positive of using marijuana and was charged with more assault offenses (physical and sexual)

The ultimate goal of a boxing match is a knock out. The knockout punch brings satisfaction to the winner of the boxing math and the crowd. This one punch can make a fight exciting. However, if there is not a knockout punch, the fight is often times dull. After a knockout punch, one man loses consciousness while the other man dances around the ring raising his hands in victory and is swarmed by his coaches and the press. Oates continues to argue that boxing is the cruelest sport by comparing a boxing match to a tragedy. If a fight has no knock out by the end, it seems like the fight is missing something. The knockout punch is a cruel but key aspect to boxing which makes people love

The viewers are the main encouragement for boxers to keep fighting or to fight harder. “They don’t come out to see a tee party,” said Mike Jacobs evenly. “They come out to see the knockout. They come out to see a man hurt. If they think anything else, they’re kidding themselves” (qtd. in

Boxing Should Not be Banned In recent years, there have been many campaigns to try and have boxing

MMA is a serious sport that leaves many athletes in critical condition whether it is after a match or later in retirement. They have a great risk of head trauma. The main goal of MMA is to physically harm the opponent. In the end of the match on will be leaving with head injuries. Today researchers are taking serious attention to head trauma. About 900 people in boxing have died because of trauma to the head (“Boxing Regulation”). This does not include people that have died after they have retired, and their cause of death was from early years of boxing.

According to the Centre for Disease Control New Jersey, roughly 1.4 million people sustain traumatic brain injuries in the United States from the result of contact sports. Out of those 1.4 million people, 50,000 die due to the severity of their brain injury.“But brain injury is preventable. Surely given what we already know about the brain and getting at least a glimpse of it’s awesome complexities, we should not be making sport or deliberately trying to do it damage,” says Joan Beck in her article, “Stop Pretending Boxing is a Sport”. Violence in sports should be removed because, it is treacherous to the human body and leads to severe injuries; especially head injuries.

Boxing - a violent cage fight, or a crowd pleasing sport? Boxing is a high intensified sport that can be seen as helping the fighter in life or permanently damaging the fighters future. Many say that boxing is one of the safest sports; however, boxing can leave permanent brain damage from constant punches to the skull. The sport boxing is for managers to earn money while their fighter is in the ring fighting against another human until one gives up, or gets knocked out. A fight could be the end of one’s career, or even one’s life. Boxing should be banned because the money earned does not trump the risk of death, the mixed messages from fighters in the ring confuse the laws regarding assault, and the constant punches to and athletes head leaves permanent damage.

Gorn goes to discuss the rules and regulations of boxing, stating; “The two athletes settle on a site for the fight. Strip to their shirts, roll their sleeves up…” (Gorn, pg.37) By adding this information and going to such detail as he does; “At the end of the fight the boxers are bruised, disfigured, and covered with blood, which they spit out, vomit out, or drip from the nose.” allows the reader to get a feel for how violent these fights were but also to allow readers to dive into the fight with their feet first. Gorn goes on to discuss more fights and discusses ‘The Great

The sport of boxing is a conflict sport that causes thousands of injuries and even deaths every year. As with any conflict sport harm to a participant is expected, but when the injury stretches to the extreme of a death it is a shocking outcome that involves many investigations. These investigations point fingers at both plausible and implausible causes this deaths. Norman Cousins points out the potential causes during the Griffith v. Paret Match that resulted in the death of Benny Paret in his essay Who Killed Benny Paret? Cousins in Who Killed Benny Paret?

(Calder-Smith, 2004) During the next decade, Tyson was sentenced to six years for the rape of a model. His wife divorced him for alleged domestic violence, and he lost his boxing licence for biting his opponent’s ear during a boxing match. (Gutteridge & Giller, 1996)

At the age of 12, Ali discovered his talent for boxing through an odd twist of fate. His bike was stolen, and Ali told a police officer, Joe Martin, that he wanted to beat up the thief. "Well, you

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he went 100-0,” said Tyson’s trainer, Kevin Rooney (Fernandez). Mike Tyson was Beloved by many fans that witnessed him knockout multiple opponents. He even did advertisements for famous companies, because they knew his fame would get customers to buy their products. “Tyson fought 58 fights in his career. Fifty of those he won, 44 of them being a knockout”(Mike).

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.

What about the fans? The last thing a boxing fan wants to hear is that the fighter is just in it for the money. Let's be real, money is a significant part of being a professional athlete. However, no one is going to sympathize with or root for a man who is claiming he is broke after earning over $200 million, and is cherry picking a fighter he knows he can beat instead of one he may not (Terence Crawford).

In 1997, the injury rate predicted in the sport of boxing was 7,257 injuries and 10.8% of those injuries were estimated to have affected people between the ages of five and fourteen. 1.3% of those injuries were predicted to be in the ages between zero and four, and 55.8% of those injuries were in the group of ages from fifteen to twenty-four.( National Electronic Injury Surveillance System et al., Estimates for Sports Injuries 1997) Boxing can be a safe and fun sport as long as it is practiced and played properly. Boxing should not be banned because it can help relieve stress, and like running it is a good addition for getting in shape. It should also not be banned because boxers know the risks and they still choose to do it ; it is their