Y9/Discursive Writing/AMI

By. Andrea Mariana Islas 9B

Should Boxing Be Banned?

One out of every hundred thousand boxers dies, yet there are millions of fans all over the world who follow boxing religiously.
Should boxing be banned due to it’s violent nature and the dangers boxers are exoposed to? Or should it be permited against all complains?

Boxing is a very dangerous sport. Boxers receive punches to the stomach, the chest and the head every day and they may suffer internal hemorraging, paralysis, and brain damage from these apparently routine punches. If boxing is so terrible for it’s contestants, why not ban it?

I believe boxing should not be banned because it is a profetional activity that, eventhough is dangerous, has rules and it’s controled. Boxers do suffer serious and even fatal injuries but, when they decide to take part in a boxing match, they know what they are getting themselves into. They know that they are going to get hit and it is their choice to practice this sport. We all have free will and if someone wants to box there is nothing we can do about it, we can’t stop the dreams of those who want to box.

Is true that sometimes people in need are desperate enough to try anything that might save them from their situation. Many boxers come from very poor families and they make fortunes by boxing, but the chance of becoming famous is minimum.
Some boxers do make it, take the movie Rocky as an example, he was very poor, started to box and his money problems were gone. Someone could decide boxing is the best way to make money fast but there are many other things that person could do. Individuals tend to feel obligated to do something they don’t want to do by the circumstances they are facing, but there are many more options besides boxing to get out of poverty.

Boxing incites viewers to more violent behaviours and causes the development of less sensible human beings. Kids and teenagers who watch boxing tend to believe that hitting other kids is acceptable and even correct. Men who watch this sport are sometimes more agresive. If it promotes violence and barbaric conducts, why not ban it?

It is the parent’s resposability to make sure their kids are not watching or doing anything that might affect them or other kids psycologicaly and physicaly. It is the parent’s fault if their children are watching boxing matches because they either allow this or do not give the proper supervition to their kids. Teenagers might sneek around just to watch it but it is the parent’s job to teach them how to difference right from wrong.

Adults who become agresive because they watch boxing are responsible for their own actions and if they can’t be controled society should react by treating this person not by bannig a sport.

If boxing became a banned activity all other martial arts and every sport would have to be banned too.

In gymnastics, for example, you face the posibility of breaking a leg, an arm, a finger, a hand, a toe, getting bruises, scratches, scrapings and tearing muscles. You could even break your neck or your spine! Girls go anorexic and bulimic and boys could be pushed into taking steroids!
Football is the world’s favourite sport but you can break a leg, get kicked and pushed or get bruises which makes it dangerous. Banning boxing could also mean banning football.

Golf is an apparently safe sport. Apparently. Imagine you are enjoying an afternoon with your beloved family at the golf course and suddenly, you get hit on the head with one of those very hard, little, white balls. You lose consciousness, get into a comma and your beloved family decides to disconect you! God forbid!

All sports are somehow dangerous but, nowadays, everything is. You can get killed by an earthquake while peacefully sleeping at home. If an athlete is aware of the risks it is his or her problem to practice this sport or not and it is not our choice to make. Everyone has free will and we can do whatever we want with it as long as we don’t affect anyone. If a boxer died, the family would be devastated but that is something the boxer knew could happen and decided to take a chance. It was the boxer’s decition to box so, why should we care what he/she does with his/her life? We shouldn’t interfere.

I personaly don’t like boxing but I don’t think it should be banned. Maybe you don’t agree with it but we all have to respect other person’s opinions and things they like. If someone doesn’t like British food it doesn’t mean that it can be banned. The only way to be respected is to respect and we should all at least tolerate things like boxing eventhough we don’t like them or disagree.