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BOXING
BOXING EVALUATION:-
Boxing is the art of self-defence through utilisation of the fists.
THE SPORT OF BOXING:-
The practical application of attained Boxing self-defence skills in competition.
BOXING SPORT RULES:
Competition rules determine contest strategy plus the physical effort and effect requirement of participation in a particular form or code of boxing.
PRE MODERN BOXING HISTORY TIMELINE:
Virgil the Roman poet wrote about boxing in 20 B.C. when he retold the story of the Trojans who participated in the sport and skills of boxing over 1000 years before in the ancient city of Troy. During the Roman era boxing was a gladiator last man standing combat sport provided for the enjoyment of a blood thirsty audience. A steel glove called a cestus was worn and beaten boxers were expendable commodities. For over a millennium boxing as a sport slumbered before re-awakening in early eighteenth century England through the practical necessity for a person to defend themselves with the fists against thugs and thieves. Rule changes have been made to the sport over the last few centuries for both commercial reasons and in an endeavour to keep within the narrowing boundaries of political correctness. The initial wearing of bandages and gloves in bare knuckle days was to protect soft vulnerable hands from the damage caused from hitting a much harder skull. This rule change was based solely on the commercial reality that prize fighters could not compete if their hands were broken. Bigger gloves to reduce power punch damage to an opponent, lower round times, shorter rounds, and the use of headguards for amateur boxers were politically expedient rule changes made to placate various medical, government and sports sanctioning authorities, and in so doing keep boxing in existence. Whilst rule changes kept boxing from teetering over the edge of acceptablity inbuilt cannibalistic ideology of last man standing remains.	This inbuilt ideology from ancient times still exists to this day in general amateur and professional boxing via the accepted practise within the rules for a boxer to punch an opponent unconscious. Knocking opponents unconscious is a mirror of archaic Roman days where boxers were expendable cannon fodder and is the fundamental flaw that places boxing at the brink of extinction as a sport. Whereas professional boxers compete for money there is no prize money to keep the commercial ball rolling for their amateur cousin who pays to compete. The boxing gymnasium and coach only exist if they have clientel who pay to train. If the most important person the paying amateur boxing client is forever running the gauntlet of being KO'd and quitting the sport and gymnasium, then whose self interest is being served and who wins? Continued acceptance by responsible authorities in respect to amateur boxers knocking opponents unconscious, with brain damage and death a possible consequence, is both commercially and politically indefensible. The situation of boxing as a sport worsened at the conclusion of the 20th Century through athletes in all sports illegally using performance enhancing drugs. Risk of serious injury to boxers is increased due to the enhanced punching power of an opponent using steroids. Amateur boxing stands alone as the only Olympic Games sport with rules that permit athletes to be beaten senseless or unconscious. In 2013 AIBA the old Olympic Style Boxing authority ceased the wearing of protective headguards by senior (elite) male boxers.
The flawed rules of general amateur boxing as administered by AIBA the world governing body, known throughout the world as 'Olympic Style Boxing' due to it's inclusion as a sport in the Olympic Games, claimed the life of female amateur boxer 'Becky Zerlentes' in April 2005. The responsible viewpoint is that the Olympic Games of the 21st Century should not be associated with a sport whose participants are allowed within the rules to beat each other unconscious or to death. If rules of an amateur sport allow your sister, brother, mum, or dad, to be killed then the sport's administrators lack a duty of care bordering on the criminal. The Olympic Review Committee's decision in July 2005 to still include Boxing in the 2012 Olympics was as flawed as the rules, from a bygone era, that place every contestant's life in jeopardy. See:- Boxing Statistics
21st CENTURY BOXING
A Golden New Way
A.A.B. GOLDEN GLOVES BOXING® 'Golden Gloves Excessive Punching Rule'©
The 'Excessive Punching Rule'© by controlling the power intensity places the objective focus of Amateur Boxing directly on defence and point scoring skills, thereby eliminating the 'Knock-Out' from the sport. because FITNESS IS PERSONAL® A.A.B. Golden Gloves Boxing Inter-Club Competition Workshops help raise funds for the 'Make-A-Wish Foundation' to continue helping youngsters with life threatening illnesses fulfil their dreams. The Australian Academy of Boxing welcomes the Fight Night organisation providers of the Fight Night DVD Professional Boxing Series with their assistance Contact: www.fightnight.com.au

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