"Should planes stop flying because people die in a crash? Should they stop all cars because people die in them every twenty-four hours? Because a boxer gets hurt, should they stop boxing? ... That would be crazy," Muhammad Ali rhetorically asks.
             Apparently, Joan Beck-an anti-boxing activist, and ex-columnar for Chicago's Tribune newspaper-has a definition of what sports and boxing are. And with these definitions, she 'knows' boxing is either not a sport, or shouldn't be considered a sport. With her biased opinions and views, Beck fails to see/seek or acknowledge important points which do in fact prove that boxing is a sport. Boxing is perhaps the most brutal activity considered to be a [legal] sport, and activists like Beck seem to enjoy nit-picking at the extreme or borderline activities like this, and then try to boycott them. Whether she likes it or not, boxing is a sport as it falls under the appropriate conditions, rules, and requirements to be one.
             A sport is defined as "An activity engaged in for amusement and exercise." Individual sports are further defined by overlaying conditions: 1A contest between two or more parties requiring strength, power, agility, and intelligence, 2spectated by many-at the venue or on a form of mass media- 3monitored or regulated by game officials; there needs to be a neutral arbiter of the rules, 4the winner or champion (singular or collective) is the one with the most advantageous score, 5must be or have a competitive aspect. A sport has a goal; to win, rather than as a part of another profession/activity (so a sale incentive scheme or the ballet isn't a sport). A sport involves, or in some cases, features some physical aspects rather than a test of pure cognition (excluding chess). A sport will always have codified rules known to all participants. Sports are arguably all derived from some common human activity. For example hunting, fishing, running, and swimming derive from primitive everyda...