“Should planes stop flying because people die in a crash? Should they stop all cars because people die in them every twenty-four hours? Because a boxer gets hurt, should they stop boxing? … That would be crazy,” Muhammad Ali rhetorically asks. Apparently, Joan Beck—an anti boxing activist, and ex-columnar for Chicago’s Tribune newspaper—has a definition of what sports and boxing are. And with these definitions, she ‘knows’ boxing is either not a sport, …showed first 75 words of 1105 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1105 total…However, a question still remains—why should it stay as a sport?—why shouldn’t it? Why change something that doesn’t need changing? Fix something that isn’t broken? Get involved in affairs that are otherwise not your own (Beck…), or do not have an interest in? See, boxing already is a sport; it works, qualifies as a sport, challenges, inspires, and awes—exactly what people want, and what sports are meant to do.