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Money obsessed barbarism or a persecuted sport? Boxing.
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Money obsessed barbarism or a persecuted sport? Boxing is one of the most controversial, currently legal sports in the western world. Some argue that it is a barbaric game, nothing but a negative influence on youth, promoting violence and causing injury to poor, exploited working class men. The arguments of the anti-boxing lobby that you will hear may include - it is expensive to take up; it is not entertaining; it encourages violence and that it can lead to deaths and injuries. To start, we will look at the first argument. They say boxing is expensive to take up, what exactly do they mean? Do they mean that it is expensive to join a boxing club or group? My father, my brother and I go to a boxing club in the Moodiesburn community centre, everyone is allowed to take part equally and no-one pays to go in, yet if I...
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