Boxer Oscar Diaz Conscious and Stable, Two Months After Life-Threatening Brain Injury

thank god. Bless him and his family. Hope he makes it & the boxing community helps him out.

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Boxing is a great sport, men enter a ring of their own free will and both fight until one nan either surrenders or is scored the winner... As with any sport there is always a chance of this happening or even death, if you don't like it then don't watch it, read about it or listen to it.... No one is forcing you the same as no one is forcing them to box....

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Take those dumb gloves off and there will be less severe injuries of this type.

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We can't all be ballerina's dear.

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You don't approve so it should be banned? And won't you be glad when that world you wish for comes to pass so if someone doesn't approve of something you participate in or enjoy it can be banned. Leave other people to do what they want to do. If you don't like it, don't watch. They volunteer, the box, they know the risk. More people per capita are injured and killed playing fooball than boxing. Why don't you want to ban that? Hypocrite!

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It's called Ultimate Fighting or Mixed Martial Arts. It's the new version of gladiators and it's pretty primitive and more violent. Don't know if the injuries are less severe, but it's a lot more entertaining to watch.

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GrannyJoyce,
I do not think true boxing fans want to see anyone beat until the other is brain dead. Nor do the boxers want to beat anyone until they are brain dead. And yes it is a sport probably the most physically and mentally demanding sports that there are. Boxing has been referred to as the "Sweet Science". And that is exactly what it is. In this case and in all cases in boxing it is the job of the ref. to prevent any fighter from being seriously hurt. He is supposed to be trained how to judge if a fighter has taken to many punches and if so enforce his judgment to stop the fight. Sure it is a dangerous sport and over time will take a toll on the health of fighters who take to many punches. Number one there is a boxing commission in each state that licenses each fighter to fight based upon a number of qualifications. One of those being that they look at the way the fighter has fought and how much punishment that fighter has taken. There are flaws in this system depending on the state. This is why we are in need of a National Commission on Boxing who governs these things, which presidential candidate John McCain has lobbied for, for years and if election I bet this will come to pass. Number two tell me a professional sport in which the athlete retires with out the sport have taken a serious toll on there health. Ok you got me. Golf?...no!! many years of the repetitive motion of swinging the golf club can lead to chronic pain in the form of "golfer's elbow"... Curling? Well if you said that them maybe you got me there. You think that football players or basketball players do not have chronic problems with their health after they retire? As a matter of fact every year there are only a few if any fatal injuries in boxing and in the seemingly "most brutal" of all sports, Mixed Martial Arts i.e.. UFC there have been no fatalities. I repeat NONE. Yet in football there are fatalities every year. I do not think that I have ever heard anyone say that football should be banned. This is why more people should research things before they ignorantly speak of them negatively. I mean that with respect toward you but I would be interested in knowing what you think is a sport and how the word is defined. Is it golf, NASCAR, horse racing? I agree that all are sports with there own unique qualities that take special people with special talents to successfully compete in them. Boxing is no different and at its core foundation is a pure sport in which one man must learn the art of his sport and have a God given talent to be good at it. I think people who make comments like you make should step back and think of the sacrifice that any athlete makes to provide a measure of entertainment to any of whom were not blessed with the talent, the discipline, the intelligence or the kahoonas to devote their life to a sport, for us normal people to enjoy. Sports give us an outlet of stress relief, an hour off from the hustle a bustle of everyday life to watch a person give their heart and soul to an art of physical, and or mental competition so that you and I can have an hour of tuning out what happened at work or what ever, and focus on the art of competition at its highest form. The enjoyment doesn't come from seeing someone get hurt yet being able to watch one compete against himself, man or animal and master the art of the sport in which he or she competes in be it, baseball, badminton, bull riding, curling, football, or even boxing or mixed martial arts. On of my favorite quotes of all times kind of sums it up. Read and think much closer before you condemn a sport because of your lack of understanding of the sport.
The Man Who Plays The Game
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, while daring greatly, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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Boxing is dangerous but it is by far the most artistic, deepest and oldest fighting sport. It has the biggest global recognition as "the" figting sport.
It takes more waiting to eventually get a barn burner of a fight in boxing.MMA hads faster action but not everything that glitters is gold. A fight o the caliber of Mrgarito vs. Cotto hasnt happenned in MMA yet but without doubt MMA can be entertaining.

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why do two handsome men such as Jones and Cazaghe want to mess up their gorgeous faces in the name of boxing...i cant figure that out !!

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boxing is a fun sport to play privatly

but id never box as a pro

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I will tell you why 2 men handsome or not want to get in the ring and bash each others faces in. After the fight they will be able to each count 15 or 20 million reasons why they just did that.

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This touches a very sensitive area for me....as for 70 years, my family has breed...raised...and perfected "gamefowl". Boxing...martial arts...dog racing...horse racing...football...soccer...and once cock fighting are just a few sports that have been threatened by special interest groups and big government. Cock fighting in this country has all but been banned and now the PETA group will expand their efforts to encompass the sports I've listed above among others. Hunters..fishers..sportsmen in general better fasten in as it is coming...activist and groups that don't know a thing about a given sport are the ones that fund and push politicians to support and vote on bills that end sports that millions love. We as a country and as a people have allowed special interest groups and corupt politicians to ruin what was once a free country. If you do your research, we are no longer a democracy, we are becoming more and more socialized each and every day. Its time to stand up America..let boxers be boxers...let dogs be dogs and a horse be horse. I can only hope that somewhere down the line we are able to elect someone that still believes in freedom and directs this ole country back to where she belongs, in the hands of the people.

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