Essay Archive - Boxing: Down for the Count
Boxing: Down for the Count
The tenth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines boxing as
"the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport." I could be
mistaken, but there is a certain emphasis placed on the idea that boxing is
practiced as a sport. It is rather ambiguous. Is boxing a sport to begin with?
Is boxing something else that is just practiced as a sport? Is it, can it, or
should it be practiced as something else rather than as a sport? Maybe I am just
making too big a deal out of a simple definition here. Nevertheless, this simple
definition of boxing gives rise to on....
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