BOXING- Why people do it? Why is it so debated? And what it means to me......

                                                            WHY DO PEOPLE DO IT ?

Hands down Boxing is the best sport. No question over it........it is. When someone tells me they're a boxer, straight up I got respect for them. Because the training for a boxer is crazy. If you're a swimmer, you swim. If you're a tennis player, u hit balls and jog. But if you're a boxer you gotta do weights, bench press, hit the heavy bag (18-30kgs) fo 18 minutes on end, jog at least 2 km's a day, speed ball, push-ups, swim, pull-ups, sit-ups, crunches and alot more. It's so hard, after you train you feel like dropping. That's the first reason. It's so hard, you push yourself, N u keep pushing yourself. You don't stop, until you CANT go on. Until u almost collapse. Another reason is how it feels to sparr. If you loose in football or basket ball, it could of been because of someone else. But boxing, there isnt no one else to blame. When you sparr, if u make one mistake you'll break your nose or another bone or just hurt, but youll finish the round, cauz tahtz wat boxerz do. But when you hit a combo on your opponent and it works, that feeling is madd nice. It tells you that all those months you trained for waz worth it. But here's something else, boxing is mad fun. This is the only sport I've done that is so hard, punishing but madd fun too. I love training and sparring even if it means I gotta break my nose while I spar. I love the skipping, my legs feel like breaking, but its cool :D. Fo' real, its hektic, its fun, its sumthing i think about when im at skool, im like " oh yeh, i got boxing after" So try it cauz the sport is in danger of being cut off.

     WHY IS IT SO DEBATED?

Cause people got nuthing better to do then diss a sport they dont even do or get. Politicians who diss boxing know nuthing. Boxing does have a high injury rate, so wat? If people wanna get into a contact sport, why are people trying to stop them. Yeh, on the greatest boxers has parkisons desease, but it was HIS choice. HIS suffering, for HIS choice, does he regret it? NO. Y would he, some of his best moments of life was from boxing. He learnt life there, it gave him a life. They say its an organised street fight. A street fight is no rules. U pick up a pole n whack someone. U hit them any where you want. Boxing has rules, protective gear and has a referre there, watching them telling them when they've had enuff. Look at the statistics, boxing has a less injury rate then other sports like football and rugby. But theyre never debated, so y youz gotta diss boxing. UFC, that ultimate fighting contest shown, is so much more dangerous then boxing. So is Kick-boxing, taekwondo, karate etc. So y diss boxing fo?

                                                        WHAT IT MEANS TO ME?

It's fun. Plus hepz of my idols are or were boxers- Rubin Carter, Muhammad Ali, Joe frazier, Nelson Mandela and others. Plus the training like I sed above is madd fun. Its hard but it feels good to do it. Another thing is, boxing gets your confidence up. You feel better, it gets you fitter and you push yourself like crazy. Plus the coach. A boxer coach is everything cauz you put your health in his hands. His the one hu tells you to stop, tells you your style is a lil wrong and HE throws the towel in, when you start fighting in bouts. A lot of what it means to me is in the WHY PEOPLE DO IT section.........But thats y I basically do boxing