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How the Brutal Sport of Boxing Saves Many Black Lives
It will always be a brutal sport, but the answer isn’t a ban
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Dec 18, 2020
“Boxing will always be a brutal sport. But the answer isn’t to ban it. Instead, we must make it safer. Lighter gloves, more athletic oversight, better matchmaking, and comprehensive health care plans for fighters when they are signed are changes the sport needs.
Yet that change will only come when we as a public demand better protection for the athletes — athletes who far too often sacrifice themselves on the altar of our entertainment.” — Miguel Machado
Read Machado’s story in its entirety below.
