Scottish Boxer Dies

[Gromit]

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Scottish boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital after being seriously injured in a bout on Thursday, his management has said.
The 25-year-old, from Dundee, suffered a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in a St Andrews Sporting Club fight at Glasgow's Raddison Blu Hotel.
He was rushed to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment.
His management said he passed away with his family at his bedside.
Towell was knocked down in the first round of the fight, before recovering to continue the match.
Referee Victor Loughlin stopped the fight in the fifth round shortly after Towell was knocked down a second time.
He received treatment in the ring and was given oxygen before being taken to an ambulance on a stretcher. //

If this happened anywhere other than in a ring in a luxury hotel, there would be a murder or manslaughter charge and a prison sentence. Odd you can kill someone and get away with it if it is a'sporting' event.

[-Talbot-]

Is your point that boxers should face criminal charges, Gromit?

If so you're being ridiculous.

[ummmm]

I don't like boxing but I wouldn't compare it to bar brawls. Bar brawls are often even more brutal.

[naomi24]

^Neither would I.

[Gromit]

Talbot,
Boxing should be a criminal activity like fox hunting or dog fighting. Then if one boxer kills another then criminal charges can follow. Deliberately harming someone that leads to their death should not be passed off as "its a sport and they know they might be killed".

[-Talbot-]

There are many sports were you might be killed. If possible death is your main concern many sports need banning before boxing.


If a jockey gets killed should trainers and owners face criminal charges when they have paid a man to ride a horse knowing that he could be killed?

Ok the trainer/owner may not have struck the blow that resulted in the jockey's death but they facilitated it.

[angie55]

Very sad. Unfortunate coincidence that the referee was the same as the Eubank jr v Nick Blackwell fight earlier in the year. Blackwell ended up in a coma and will never fight again. Many people thought that fight went on 3 rounds too long.

[THECORBYLOON]

TALBOT, folk have died playing many different sports but they do not normally involve deliberate attempts to strike opponents in such a way as to injure, incapacitate or knock-out.

[-Talbot-]

So what they are still dead TCL.

Either you are concerned about deaths in sport or you are not. If you are concerned don't just pick on boxing when more people are killed doing other statistically more dangerous sports.

People step into a boxing ring of their own free will, people jump from cliffs of their own free will ... the base jumper is far more likely to die, why no anti base jumping threads?

[whiskeryron]

It's all very well saying that boxers go into the ring knowing that they could be injured or even killed & this is OK because of the rules but in society we should not allow it. There are desperate people out there who would dearly love assisted suicide but are banned by law from doing it, so it is OK for some to volunteer to take the chance if they are backed by so called sporting rules but someone who desperately needs relief from painful living conditions is banned from doing so. Strikes me that society needs completely sorting out.

[-Talbot-]

whiskeryron
It's all very well saying that boxers go into the ring knowing that they could be injured or even killed & this is OK because of the rules but in society we should not allow it.




Should society alow anything that carries an element of danger?

[lankeela]

Surely the point of boxing is to score points by making contact with your opponent and although this includes a knock out, I am sure the prime intention is not to inflict serious harm or a fatal blow. Despite all the hype before a match i doubt many Boxers are intent on actually killing their opponents. Same with the martial arts such as kick boxing, after a bout they congratulate each other and embrace

[anotheoldgit]

Why not bring back gladiatorial contests, I am sure there would be volunteers if the money was high enough?

[mushroom25]

in the midlands, bare knuckle boxing is becoming popular....
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/hundreds-turn-out-bare-knuckle-11951578

[ToraToraTora]

I thought that was illegal mushroom? I know that it's actually the advent of gloves that made boxing more dangerous but I still thought BKB was illegal.