Boxing

Tonight, December 3rd, I went to see the movie Southpaw, directed by Antoine Fuqua, at the Student Union movie theater. Southpaw is about a man, Billy Hope, who is a champion boxer, has a beautiful family, and every else a man could dream of coming from the system in New York City. Everything turns for the worst by the death of his wife, the social worker taking his daughter, and losing almost all possessions he once owned. He returns to the rough side of the streets to rebuild his life and…

The Isthmian Games were held featuring musical, equestrian, and athletic competition." All of Greece came to Corinth to witness The Isthmus Games which featured competitive events of foot races, horse races, chariot contests, jumping, wrestling, boxing, and throwing the discus and javelin. Founded in 776 B.C the Games were the chief athletic contest in Greece and held every four years. I find no documented record of how many days the original games were but after almost three hundred years the…

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and Nelson Mandela were both two powerful black leaders who were both sentenced to prison for innocent reasons. Carter and Mandela both fought for the inequality around the world, but yet were from different sides of the world. Carter was from the United States of America, and Mandela was from South Africa. Although these two men were both in prison, it does not mean they were terrible men, however, they actually made the world a better place with their prestige and…

championship in 1932, 1933, and 1934. He was voted most valuable player for the Michigan Wolverines. In 1935, he graduated from the University of Michigan and continued his law degree at Yale. While he was at Yale, he took on jobs as a football and boxing coach. On January 1, 1935, Ford got the chance to play on soldier field against the Chicago Bears in the Chicago tribune All-Star game. After his amazing performance he got offers to play for the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. Ford…

The Great Depression of 1929 affected the lives of many people. After the stock market crashed, the job market suffered and people were laid off from work resulting in many businesses closing. People took extreme measures to survive as shown in the film, Cinderella Man. Men found themselves competing for jobs for low pay, steady work was hard to come by, and minorities, women included, faced harsh prejudices making their ability to compete almost impossible. Throughout this paper I will…

interaction with “their” women. Jack Johnson died in a car accident on June 10, 1946 and since then his career has been under review; his alleged crimes have been determined the result of racial bias. In 1990 Jack Johnson was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (“Jack Johnson”). Johnson’s contribution to civil rights and the integration/equality of sports in America are irrefutable and monumental to the black…

Concussion is an injury associated with sports and is most often identified with football, ice hockey, boxing and martial arts. There is different levels of concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI), including mild, moderate, and severe. Large numbers of athletes participate in these sports; youth, high school, collegiate, professional. Concussion is an injury that results from a wide variety of mechanisms and ages, levels ranging from a simple daze to the inability of doing daily activities.…

significant amount of cocaine in his body the night he died - so much so that Jeff's body had not metabolized all the cocaine. The cocaine evidence supported the defense's assertion that Jeff was intoxicated the night of his death, when he came home from a boxing class and punched his son. Jeff also had several knife wounds on his hands, forearms, back, and the backs of his legs, indicating defensive wounds inconsistent with being tied to a…

One day after boxing class wrapped up, he revealed to me that nobody had attempted to motivate him to change; I was the first person to not only inspire him, but actually act on my words. It was the ultimate satisfaction when my friend achieved his goal. On the flipside…

expectancy. The biggest focus is not on the amount of deaths in sports, because that statistic is nothing compared to the amount of players who have been injured in the sport. “Chronic brain damage is the most worrying thing about boxing.” Source A states, as opposed to deaths in boxing. Living with such severe injuries that can affect your day to day life may cause you to rethink whether or not you want to commit yourself to…