Up for Review: The State of Boxing
Boxing There's just something about two men fighting for sport. The earliest record of men squaring off was in Iraq somewhere in the 3rd millennium BC. It became part of the early Greek Olympics and even became a major piece of American Sports History. I grew up in the late 80s/early 90s when Mike Tyson was running the world of boxing. To this day, if you ask me what the biggest fall from grace in the sports world was my heart has a spot for Iron Mike. Such raw power, such tenacity, and such a spokesman on the mic. Okay... Maybe one of those we could have went without. The other two, however, have never been matched and I don't think they ever will. Before Tyson, boxing was alive and well. It didn't start with him... Ali, Foreman, Dempsey, Hagler, Louis, Frazier, Marciano, Robinson, Duran, Chavez... The list goes on and on and on... After Tyson, we have seen a drop off in the excitement for the sport. Maybe it's because lack of quality competition,