Should boxing be considered a sport?

Boxing, let’s start off by connecting it with the word fighting.

So boxing is a fighting sport with limitations, since there’s no grappling, kicks, hits behind the back and etc.

1-Why do people choose to be boxers and whom are they?!

This is a very important question to answer for us to understand the sport more clearly!!

Boxers are usually people that came from poverty and rough tough situations, with the need of money as fast as possible, giving that they don’t have a craft in hand or any other method to get a more sustainable job. But it’s not just the need of the money, it is also the rough situations that they had been through, which lead to create a fire and anger in their hearts.

So let’s assume that a boxer is a person who needs money and have an anger that have to be released in a way, which will not lead to jail, hospital or whatever.

2-What is a sport?

This is also a very important question, specially nowadays there’s a variety of sports which some will argue if they are sports, but I will leave this question open to the reader.

3-Why the discussion of boxing being a sport or not is even mentioned?

Clearly the reason that is a violent sport that in some scenarios in the past led to death of certain boxer, even so if not to death, a severe damage in the body, head, physically and mentally.

So 3 questions we have obtained them!

Right now, should boxing be considered a sport?

I think not, it’s a closer to survival mode, but that not insist of it to be banned but just put it in other category, the training that a boxer go through, benefit the body maybe more than any other sport, since she/he’s training to literally for her/his life to survive. But at the end, we can’t encourage people to go through path, where they could end blinded or other sort of injuries.

It should be more taught as a form of self-defense for the people that are not in need, with a light sparring or maybe without it, other than that for the real fighters, just call it business!