Posted: 07 Apr 2005, 06:34
The comments about the bloke in the wheelchair were from Riddick, I mistakenly thought it was you, but it was tongue in cheek anyhow.
I agree that women's boxing needs regulating, and that there are too many women fighting who have no business being in the ring.
One thing which would tighten this up, would be for the major sanctioning bodies to get involved, and get rid of these fly by night organisations and promoters who are involved in Women's boxing, some of whom obviously don't give a fornicate about the welfare of those involved.
In time, Women's boxing will improve
With regard to the argument about women being more vulnerable, I've done a bit of reading up on it previously, and I've not been able to find much to support that assertion. The original argument was that women's breast tissue was too vulnerable, and that it could cause cancers due to trauma. What was overlooked though is that in female boxers, due to the training, most of the breast tissue dissapears. The other arguments which were raised were pretty crazy. The BBCofC argued that pre-menstrual women wouldn't be able to control their tempers, or something ridiculous along those lines.
Yes, here it is.
"The board contended at the tribunal that women should not be licensed to box because pre-menstrual tension made them unstable. "
That's pretty fornicating hilarious....!
What is needed is for the amateur sport to really take off, because without amateur grounding women's boxing will not really ever elevate itself above the tough man level.
I spoke with people at the ABA last year, and they were only just getting involved with women's boxing, so it's going to be a while before we see many well schooled women boxers in this country. Eastern Europe are already well ahead of us, and those nations have plenty of women in their amateur programmes, the USA is somewhat behind on this compared to Europe, but ahead of us.
I think women's boxing is set to become an olympic sport by 2012, by which time I will be fornicating 41! Jesus!
I agree that women's boxing needs regulating, and that there are too many women fighting who have no business being in the ring.
One thing which would tighten this up, would be for the major sanctioning bodies to get involved, and get rid of these fly by night organisations and promoters who are involved in Women's boxing, some of whom obviously don't give a fornicate about the welfare of those involved.
In time, Women's boxing will improve
With regard to the argument about women being more vulnerable, I've done a bit of reading up on it previously, and I've not been able to find much to support that assertion. The original argument was that women's breast tissue was too vulnerable, and that it could cause cancers due to trauma. What was overlooked though is that in female boxers, due to the training, most of the breast tissue dissapears. The other arguments which were raised were pretty crazy. The BBCofC argued that pre-menstrual women wouldn't be able to control their tempers, or something ridiculous along those lines.
Yes, here it is.
"The board contended at the tribunal that women should not be licensed to box because pre-menstrual tension made them unstable. "
That's pretty fornicating hilarious....!
What is needed is for the amateur sport to really take off, because without amateur grounding women's boxing will not really ever elevate itself above the tough man level.
I spoke with people at the ABA last year, and they were only just getting involved with women's boxing, so it's going to be a while before we see many well schooled women boxers in this country. Eastern Europe are already well ahead of us, and those nations have plenty of women in their amateur programmes, the USA is somewhat behind on this compared to Europe, but ahead of us.
I think women's boxing is set to become an olympic sport by 2012, by which time I will be fornicating 41! Jesus!
