It had to come to public attention again,the so called sport of boxing.
We all know, it is the only sport where a competitor wins by reducing his opponent to a state where he cannot retaliate because of physical injury.
These injuries can be seen on several retired boxers.
Muhammad Ali is one such case, and lately a young man has been revived from a medical induced coma, in a battered way.
The lure of fame and financial reward is the only thing that drives them and perhaps the chance of a very gilded belt that won't even hold trousers up.
The sport doesn't really belong in a country that holds animal cruelty like fox hunting as abhorrent.
There was a great outcry a few years ago I don't remember the outcome, but at that time the feeling was intense, and I feel it in the air again.
Alan Blandford, Southampton
Editor's note: Muhammed Ali has Parkinson's. There is no conclusive link between his boxing career and his contracting of the syndrome.
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