May be I am weak hearted: But I do not like watching Boxing live or on TV. Unlike
Wrestling on TV, it is not fake or fixed but real and like Steve Pollard, Paul Ingle’s trainer says ’’everybody that crosses the ropes and goes in the ring knows the risks and they can get killed”.
Yes the very Paul Ingle who had a near tragic world title defeat in the Steel City of Sheffield last weekend. Ingle had to undergo a life-saving operation to remove a blood clot from his brain. Ingle had been knocked out by South African Mbulelo Botile.
But the huge public outcry to ban the sport gives me some solace that I am not alone
In disliking it. Since Ingle was rushed away from the ring at the Sheffield Arena , there has been a wave of pressure calling for blows to the head in the sport to be banned. Mbulelo Botile, Ingle’s opponent in the ring though expressed sympathy for Ingles, says that as a
Boxer you want to hurt your opponent and knock him out.
It is only few days back that Michael Watson, who suffered a brain damage in 1991 bout with Chris Eubank, won his appeal against the British Boxing Board of Control.
Perhaps, if the BBBC heeds public opinion, it would either consider banning the sport or
At least provide more medical facilities at the ringside. Or may be it would only wake up only when a boxer is killed in the ring?