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overweight, particularly in the US, this is altering what the ordinary "normal"
person looks like, but in terms of ideals, you don't get much better looking
than the male or female boxing physique.Kent -Roadscloarette, I
attend many fight cards each year and on many
of them are woman's bouts. They are every bit as competitive
(that is when two opponents are evenly matched) as the men's
bouts and the crowd always gives them respect. ***I'm sure that's true.
I think a lot of it is that the women in the ring are actually conditioned and
know what they're doing, looking like anything but a couple of silly drunks in a
catfight in a bar. I'd love to see a card with several women on it! Women will
be just like the men. There'll be a range, from stunning performers, to
stiffs. I still haven't
gotten used to seeing women leave the ring with
bloody noses and split lips. ***I'm wondering if refs will
subconsciously defer to sex, and stop women's contests sooner, ala amateur
bouts, when there're two women involved? I also wonder if when we start seeing
women, postfight, looking like Joe Frazier after Manilla, if the cries for
abolishing boxing will come again, and be even stronger? If so, for simply that
reason, it'll be very sexist and unfair. One thing I've noticed is that while
male boxing is dominated by black fighters, along with Puerto Ricans on the east
coast, Mexicans on the west, more female boxers are white than anything.
I saw, walking around in the audience once, female boxer Mia St.
John. She was signing autographs and at first I thought she must
be a famous actress, as she was so beautful. I remember
thinking what a shame it would be to ruin such a pretty face from
getting hit with punches.***Having looked at the different pages on the
Internet, and having seen numerous articles in magazines, it seems that the
manly, ugly, or "dikey" fighter is rare. Many are really sharp looking,
facially, and of course, they're all in really top shape, body-wise.
Of course I think the same thing, on a differentlevel, when I see
"pretty boy" boxers like Oscar De La Hoya and Julio Gonzalez,
that they should be actors or models instead of fighters. However,
it doesn't matter to me if De La Hoya or Gonazlez get their faces
smashed as they are men and it is part of the game. Yes it is a
double standard but I don't care if a man is handsome or not.
Besides, it is my best interest if good looking men like De La
Hoya and Gonazlez lose their looks as potentially more women
would look my way!***Some of the guys you mention probably looked like
angels once (some still do pretty much), but that'll change. Like they say -
prizefighters and whores age the fastest, by 19, looking like they're 40. Maybe
stretching it a bit, but the sentiment is pretty solid.|
|9/5/03 05:40:48 PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|I
wrote my same post on female boxing for a general discussion forum where I also
go, and one guy said - kidding around - that if the women really want equality,
they needed to fight bare from the waist up, just the same as the men do. I
commented back that if this ever happened, a female Ali-Frazier might draw as
much as the male verson! LOL!|
|9/5/03 06:16:57 PM|Massimo|Rome||Carnera b Foreman KO 1.com||||10|Road...(too
long !)What do you mean with "real good shape" ? I feel myself ( or I
feel... Bah, you know) in very good shape, 5'6" 128lb, but I'm not muscular at
all and I could'nt fight ! What would happen if a woman took a shot to the
breast ( an uppercut, for instance) ? This would be a problem, don't you agree ?
Especially if that woman has a big breast ! Do you think the women can offer a
boxing's show as good as the men do ? A Thrilla in Manilla between women ? I
haven't a clear opinion about and I'm curious to know yours. |
|9/6/03 08:45:30
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Road...(too long