YES - Francis Loughlin, Northern Ireland convenor, Community and Youth Workers' Union
I fail to see how any activity whose chief purpose is to cause such harm to someone that they are physically unable to continue can have the audacity to describe itself as a sport.
Furthermore, how this activity can then be cited as an admirable development tool for young people offering self-control and an outlet for aggression suspends believe. Boxing isn't an outlet for aggression, boxing is aggression.
Participants succeed or fail based on their level of aggression. Boxers excel by dehumanising their opponent: they don't see a person in front of them, they see a target.
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