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OPINION: If the most advanced doctors gave the most extreme priority to safety, few sports would survive and boxing would not be one of them.
Bowls can pass, racket sports, athletics and chess. No more rugby and league rugby, cricket, horse racing, cycling and motorsport.
Fortunately, amateur boxing is highly regulated, especially for novices and fights only last three rounds. This sport has merit for young people who grow up, to get rid of anger and perhaps to ward off these terrible cowards, tyrants of the school.
But as for corporate boxing, eliminate it. Too often, he mistakenly calls himself Fight for Life.
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Tell that to Christcurch man, Kain Parsons, who lost his life after being eliminated at a charity event last month. Arrange draws instead.
And yet, Joe and Joanne publicly claim any kind of fight. Watch the explosion of interest for the UFC, kick boxing or what they call barbaric and brutal fighting in a cage.
When Malcolm Nicol organizes his amateur tournaments at the Palmerston North Boxing Club, they are always so popular that there is no place to swing a rat.
It's the same thing at corporate events, even if at the ring's edge you risk being splashed with blood. The masses want to see big hits in the same way they scream when a high-speed crash occurs in the V8 Supercars or when Englishman Owen Farrell struts his chest.
They also want to see winners and losers.
Manawatū Sport leader Trevor Shailer played 177 fights as an amateur and fought at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He was arrested several times in international battles, but never been knocked out or concussed.
He remembers getting closer to the Philippines when a Senator Chavez caught him with a left hook on his chin and Shailer had momentarily rubber legs. As he pointed out, the blows that hurt you are the ones you can not see coming.
Boxers train for years to avoid indiscriminate shooting. Shailer was a scientific boxer rather than a fighter and ran a boxing academy in Wellington before taking off from the corporate scene.
He does not subscribe to the motto that a boxer should be able to take a punch. "Is not the idea not to take a punch?"
Indeed, but this does not apply to corporate chaos. Non-boxers think that 10 weeks of training are sufficient, but not when most carcasses are soft and neglected.
The training can not prepare them for what it's like to be belted in the bugle, nor when enthusiastic crowds want to see gladiators bumping their guts. Nothing has changed since the time of Ben-Hur.
The blows that cause the most damage are the round mowers, the stock of commercial remains. Boxers learn to avoid them and hit straight.
Amateur boxers used to wear a headgear that had about the same effect as rugby to avoid scratches and cauliflower ears. The boxer's helmet had a padding on the back to prevent impact on the back of the head if it hit the canvas.
Corporate boxing could be accepted if it became an exhibition, as in non-competition. But no one would show up because the public wants blood – that's human nature.
When the bell rings, the jousters of the corporate world immediately lose the perspective and feel obliged to go. Activist Shailer trained activist Ken Mair to fight with Michael Laws and in their first fight, Mair left home. Shailer cast anchors.
His coaching job was to make sure no one was hurt.
This is not the true essence of boxing and it is not for the sensitive souls to get into the ring for the first time. Hopefully the organizers will be afraid of someone else's death.
As far as professional boxing is concerned, the gloves are there in a way and the results are often worse than those with a flat nose.
The uncertainties of the All Blacks
It's time that the leadership of the All Blacks stops being hypersensitive to criticism.
The scribes are allowed to question Kieran Read's game, even if Steve Hansen disagrees and resumes his verbal revenge.
It seemed naze that Read ran the haka to Rome, unless he had a whakapapa that we did not know.
And his scramble against Ireland could have been caused by the fact that he was dropped on his melon from a queue.
But after a mediocre tour in the north, the All Blacks have more pressing problems than Read's.
The whole country can see that Damian McKenzie is not the man from the start. Ben Smith is, with Jordie Barrett from 2020.
The midfielder has become a children's game, with often two centers playing in tandem or two seconds five eighths. And anyone in surplus is sent back to the wing, like Ben Smith and Barrett in Rome.
No one has the flank of the blind side where Liam Squire inherited the predisposition to the wounds of Nehe Milner-Skudder. They also have pony ponies at Shannon Frizell and Vaea Fifita and the grafter, Jackson Hemopo, a Nori Māori tour hero.
Peter Lampp is a columnist for Stuff
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