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Come Inside... => The Sports Bar => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on August 13, 2009, 08:07:22 AM
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The International Olympic Committee is due to give the go-ahead to the sport for the London 2012 Games. Boxing is the only Olympic sport women are currently barred from entering.
A similar request was knocked back in 2005 on the grounds of medical safety.
Jane Couch, Britain's first professional female boxer "It's just a lot of older generation men that believe that women should be at home washing the pots, doing the ironing and cleaning the kitchen floor," she says.
Couch had to take her fight to an industrial tribunal in 1997 to receive a professional licence from the British Boxing Board of Control.
Then, the argument was that pre-menstrual tension made women too unstable to box.
"It is a sport, it is a very tough sport, but at the end of the day it's a controlled sport. If you're going to oppose women's boxing then you have to oppose men," says Couch.
Earlier this year, IOC president Jacques Rogge indicated he was in favour of the new discipline. "Conditions are totally different now," he said. "The timing is right, because the sport has evolved a lot."
The proposal by the boxing governing body calls for 40 women to compete in 2012.
Due to the IOC's limit of 286 boxers the number of male fighters would then have to be reduced.
I am not a great fan of boxing ( whoever is fighting) and so I am not too sympathetic to the call that women's boxing should be recognised as a sport and included in the Olympics.
The argument that the sport has evolved and conditions are different now completely confuses me ....I don't see what has changed in all these years. The principle is that you get into a confined space and knock out the person in there with you, still stands ( oh and you have to give most of your winnings to your promoter / agent / bookie etc).
Ok your protective head gear might have been improved but what else Shrugs:
Spouting the argument that men expect to see women in the home and not in the boxing ring is also too easy. Lets face it most men and women would not be interested in watching female boxing ( unless it was in mud / foam or jelly ::) ) .
Isn't this more about certain women that are determined to break the last few 'male' dominated areas left - this is not for the sake of equality but for their own individual reasons. There is no greater cause being sought here - to my mind anyway.
Just go to any nightclub at closing time to see proper women's boxing, hair pulling, kicking and talon scraping noooo:
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Just wait until the first woman boxer ends up with brain damage and listen to the "sisterhood" bleating to have the sport banned for everyone.
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Just wait until the first woman boxer ends up with brain damage
How would you tell?
(runs off to hide)
scared:
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I thought it was gong to be wrestling. I am disappointed and shall have to console myself with the Ladies Beach Volleyball (live from a downpour in Bournemouth noooo:)
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Come out Uncle M and take your punishment
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naughty , bad, man noooo:
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I thought it was gong to be wrestling.
What on earth in the thread title made you think this confused2:
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I thought Tessa Jowell wanted Lady Wrestling. It's possible someone may have tipped her off that this might draw the wrong sort of audience eveilgrin:
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I see nothing wrong with women's boxing
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I see nothing wrong with women's boxing
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eeek:
She'd hardly be able to get close enough to land a punch.
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Just go to any nightclub at closing time to see proper women's boxing, hair pulling, kicking and talon scraping noooo:
That was pretty much my reaction to the news, closely followed by who would be stupid enough to referee the bout.
I used to know an ex para who worked as a bouncer. This guy was built like a titan and thought nothing of wading into huge fights and break them up whatever it took. I asked him how he did it once and he told me what his sargeant told him "it doesn't matter how big, how tough, or how many friends the other guy has. Launch his bollocks out of his ears & he'll soon go down".
He had to quit being a bouncer after trying to break up a couple of women trying to kill each other. Poor sod spent the next week in hospital after they both laid into him instead.