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Boxing
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Boxing
Corruption in boxing 1876-1917. History of the sport. Impact on big business.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages) |
10 sources |
2001
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"Boxing is on one level simply an athletic contest between two persons, each of whom uses the fists to try to knock the other unconscious or to inflict enough punishment to cause the opponent either to quit or to be judged beaten. A boxing match is conducted under established rules and procedures and has a referee, judges, and timekeeper - all conventions instituted to make the sport more like a sport and less like a fight and to insure that the participants are not permanently harmed.The history of boxing has been in more or less equal parts violence, strength, the attempt to redefine violence instead of strength as the essential quality for an athlete and corruption, for boxing has almost always had a fair amount of money floating around it. It is perhaps inevitable that any sport that includes both money and violence must also be corrupted by extralegal forms."
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