Women boxers

[Coldicote]

So we now have women boxers having a go at each other! To me boxing is nothing more than ugly brutal macho behaviour, not worthy of being considered a sport, even less one for women. What's your view?

[dotty.]

it was fantastic, i'd kill to be able to box like that and not get dizzy

[Brenden]

Hate boxing, hate womens boxing even more, as you say an ugly brutal exhibition.

[Sqad]

\\\ even less one for women. \\\\

There are women and there are woman.

I can think of many who would be "at home" in a boxing ring.....some built for boxing and others that look as though they have been boxing all their lives.

Then there are the "feminine " women, look smart, smell nice and takes care of themselves....these women would never dain to enter a ring.

Horses for courses.

[Kiki-frog]

I don't particularly like boxing, but if women want to do it, then surely that's their choice. It's not a new phenomenon and there were female boxers in the 18th and 19th centuries. I've got a feeling it might even have featured in one of the early Olympics.

[bibblebub]

Amateur boxing is excellent, the epitome of the Olympic ideal, and what you've said about women taking part is simply guff.

[dotty.]

errrrrrrrr, did you actually watch those young women juSt now? The British girl won Gold and looks FABULOUS!

[Baldric]

Womens boxing has been around for ages, it's well regulated, and is a very skillful sport for which you train very hard, so each to their own.

[hc4361]

Bring back bare knuckle boxing, I say - provided the boxers are insured and not coerced in to it.
Boxing is a fine sport.

[dotty.]

it's legally been around for a decade or so, and it really looks like a good sport for a girl to get into and show her agility, balance and concentration.

[Maydup]

I don't like boxing but I'm not sexist - I'm no more or less keen on women boxing that men.

If a sport exists, it should exist for both and I was pleased our GB girl won the first ever medal for women.

[eyethenkyew]

I'd far rather have it done in a controlled environment under proper rules and regulations than some of those ugly confrontations outside pubs and nightclubs in the early hours of the morning - females virtually as much as males.

[craft1948]

I don't like boxing, however I will accept yet another gold medal for Yorkshire.................

[Baldric]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_boxing

[Coldicote]

I thought this would be a bit contentious, but we are all entitled to our views. As squad said 'horses for courses' - I'll watch the horses any day.

[DTCwordfan]

There's a proposition in the pipeline to have women on horseback boxing in Rio.

Just heard that off the hoof.

[NOX]

I've never heard such a load of stereotypical sexist sh1te in my entire life. Why can't women box and still ' look after themselves'? There is no correlation that I'm aware of between a girl boxing and a lack of personal grooming- personally I'd hate one of Squad's 'little women' all perfumed and pointless with no more substance to her, women should be free to do whatever the hell they like and have the support of their nation when they win a gold medal at the Olympics, and the girl last night did indeed look fantastic didn't she dotty?

[emmie]

That it is absolutely brilliant, i like boxing at any rate and watching Nicola Adams win a Gold medal yesterday was stunning.

[BlueToffee]

Each to their own, and good luck to the young lady who won another Gold medal for Team GB yesterday, she came over in iterview as a really pleasant lass, but it still doesn't endear me to boxing by either sex.

[emmie]

Katie Taylor also took Gold for Ireland.