Boxing

             Delivered by Rob Goeckel at the University of Wisconsin.
             1 "I killed a man. Afterward, they told me that it wasn't my fault) and that anyway it was nothing new. It had happened before. It has happened since. And, believe me, it will happen again."
             2 This quote was uttered by boxer Roger Donoghue after he fought fellow boxer George Flores in 1951. During the fight, Donoghue punched Flores so mercilessly and with such force that shortly afier the bout was over, Flores went into a coma. He never woke up again.
             3 This horrif~ing scenario, the sight of one man literally beafing another man's brains out, is what boxing is all about. What's even more frightening is that many, many other fighters have suffered the same fate as George Flores. In fact, as Time magazine reported, in the last decade over seventy boxers have died from boxing-related causes. Moreover, at least 15 percent of all boxers, even if they don't die, incur irreversible brain damage.
             4 Growing up, like most of you, I watched boxing, and sometimes I even enjoyed it. But as I recently watched Mike Tyson pummel Frank Bruno into submission in a heavyweight championship fight I began to wonder what possessed one man to beat another with such force without remorse.
             5 In answering my audience analysis questionnaire most of you said the sport of boxing was violent but that the decision to fight should~be left up to the individual. However, I'm here to show you that the choice cannot be left up to the individual, who probably has been swayed by the chance for fame and fortune. The evidence against boxing is shocking and overwhelming, and tonight I hope to convince you that all states should ban the sport of boxing because it damages its participants and our society.
             6 For decades, experts have warned us about the dangers of boxing. As long ago as 1928, Dr. Harrison Martland published the first article regarding the dangers of fighting in the Journal of the American Medic...

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