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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (4578)	2/18/2003 1:15:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I'm too sensitive to "enjoy" boxing. I never said Quarry couldn't take a punch, which is saying something when your on the receiving end with Joe Fraiser. Ali shouldn't have tried to take the kind of punishment Quarry and Joe would take, IMO. But he didn't generally have to in his younger days because he was so fast. It was sad to see him try later, but he showed everybody, didn't he? I remember Fraiser walking head first into Ali. That is just ugly to watch. As an owner of a bald pate, I'm not inclined to use it as a deflector shield, even if I could. And I couldn't.

To: Solon who wrote (4578)	2/18/2003 1:26:13 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I find wrestling the worst form of entertainment I could imagine! Boxing is even worse. At least wrestling is just a scripted drama, where nobody really gets hurt except by accident. Boxing is the only activity -- I wouldn't call it either a sport or entertainment -- outside of war where the sole object is to inflict maximum injury on another human.

To: Solon who wrote (4578)	2/18/2003 6:13:14 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

<<Died young from the repeated blows of a lifetime of boxing. >> I remember back when I was a kid watching the Friday Night Fights sponsored by Gillette. Had a little song, To look and feel sharp and be sharp too.. One Friday night Emile Griffen KO'd Billy "Kid" Parret who got hung on the ropes. Right there on TV, Emile gave him 36 unblocked shots to the head before the fight was stopped. They drilled 8 holes in the "Kids" skull to relieve the pressure but his brains just oozed out and then he died. Ali fought the British champ Cooper and blinded him by the 4th round. Ali forgot his opponent and started chatting with the crowd. Cooper hunted him down by sound and decked Ali. When Ali got up pieces of Cooper's face landed on people in the 4th row. Now they stop the fights much earlier.