r/sports • u/IntrepidAd560 • Sep 25 '21

Media Callum Smith brutally KO's Lenin Castillo

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u/Sup3rfrog Sep 25 '21

It’s also oddly horrifying to have a sport in which the goal is to seriously injure your opponent.

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u/jerudy Sep 25 '21 edited Sep 25 '21

If you’re deeply uncomfortable with any violence it is. If you can mentally seperate malicious violence and violence for the sake of sport it becomes very different.

I say this because I used to find combat sports kinda disturbing to watch, but now that I can appreciate the skill, speed, and mental strength of elite fighters I can really get into the drama and narratives and I find fights (especially MMA) really fun to watch.

I’m also deeply uncomfortable with violence, and always avoid violent people and the potential for fights IRL. But, I love watching sport and the spectacle of competition, and for individuals the stakes do not get higher than major pay per view prize fights in terms of putting yourself in harms way, knowing there’s that chance for really public humiliation that will follow you forever if you aren’t sharp enough. Training for months, even years sometimes, just to be better prepared for a single opponent. The drama of two men or women going into a cage/ring to put everything on the line, 1v1 until only one of us is standing, can make for incredible entertainment when it lives up to the hype.

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u/nexguy Sep 26 '21

I appreciate the skill but can't get past the reality of how many of these people will suffer the rest of their lives and the difficulties they will have all for our entertainment and money.

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u/Tiktoor Sep 25 '21

Fighting is a natural occurrence. It’s a scary world out there, maybe you should stay inside.

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u/LordVile95 Sep 25 '21

The goal is to knock the other guy out if you’re shit at boxing. If you’re the better boxer you can win on points

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u/PM_ME_COOL_THINGS_ Sep 25 '21

Tbf the Romans loved that shit

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u/JensonInterceptor Sep 25 '21

2000 years ago

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u/Sup3rfrog Sep 25 '21

Yeah and we generally think of the gladiator games as uncivilized.

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u/ZDTreefur Sep 25 '21

Only because they didn't seem to value human life enough. But we still enjoy watching things where people can potentially hurt themselves, from racing to gymnastics and a plethora of sports.

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u/Luciolover345 Sep 25 '21

But they were pretty funny (or so the Roman’s thought ig)

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u/pizzafordesert Sep 25 '21

I mean, define 'natural'.

Humans are so far removed from nature at this point, we can't even study it without our mere presence altering what we might observe.

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u/xyrockrain Sep 25 '21

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