Women boxers

[Mick-Talbot]

Savannah Marshall, Tasha Jonas, Nicola Adams


Many posters on this site have denounced boxing. some have basically declared the participants to be knuckle draggers.

So , the question .................will you be cheering on, our lady boxers ?

[MoonRocker]

I will be Mick, I am also a big fan of the noble art of pugilism. I have been to see the boxing in person. If anyone wants to denounce a sport as the perview of "knuckle draggers" look no further than p00fball.

[Mick-Talbot]

BBC1 now, are you watching?

[Mick-Talbot]

Nicola Adams will be fighting in the final .

Go Nicola.



No opinions what so ever ?

[dotty.]

I watched a program the other day with 2 girls in their teans who had met at a boxing club and it had given them courage to face other issues in their life, they seemed to be very well rounded level headed girls and the discipline and commitment to the training had turned their lives around. Go Nicola.

[mccfluff]

i hate fighting and i won't watch it women or men

pour some sugar on meeee

[bibblebub]

I can't be bothered with professional heavyweights, most of them are full of ego and no brains, but the amateur game is excellent; it's the sport I've ended up watching for the last couple of hours each evening during these Olympics.

Job very well done by Nicola.

[sandyRoe]

Amateur boxing, where the fighters are well protected with helmets, is fine. The Pro game, where brain damage is a real possibility, less so.

[craft1948]

I wish them well but I won't be watching...............I detest boxing.

[kendra20]

I hate to see women boxing its degrading. it is a mans sport if you can call it a sport. not for me

[dotty.]

i think washing up is degrading, good job that's not a sport, i couldn't watch that for hours

[bibblebub]

Women do judo, where they try to throw each other, and taekwondo, where they try to kick each other, so no reason for boxing to be singled out.

[dotty.]

or beach volley ball where you can see the wax strip marks

[bibblebub]

and all those other sports where they get hot and sweaty - but not in the glowing sense - how unladylike

[tamborine]

2 stepping without music is daft

[Mick-Talbot]

Mr Cameron seems to approve.

[vivandorron]

Hi Mick.....Just to dispel your thinking that perhaps I am very limited to the sections into which I post.;-)

My great grandfather was a pugilist (bare fisted boxer) who had a Fairground Boxing Booth and settled in Wales from Ireland. He lost his last fight but his opponent died from injuries.....That's the story I heard from my grandfather who,at 16 yrs of age , was compelled by his father to 'take-on' all contestants in the Boxing Booth who were within his weight.

Consequently, it could be understandable that I dislike Boxing; be it between males or females; because of the pressures and possible injuries which can ensue.

Ron.