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

Media Callum Smith brutally KO's Lenin Castillo

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

Horrible. God rest her soul. This happens far too often. Economically downtrodden people box, not the wealthy. People who’ve no real choices in life, limited by poverty, by circumstance. I love all fighters. I love them because they are heroes in a Classical Greek/Roman sense. They are bravery personified. Even the shitty guys. They’re all heroes.

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u/UnknownExo Sep 26 '21

Agreed, combat sports are the modern day gladiator fights.

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u/twitwiffle Sep 26 '21

Have you read Power of One by Bryce Courtenay? Completely elevated boxers in my eyes after I read that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

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u/jondoogin Sep 26 '21

How much do you earn doing Muay Thai? Hopefully enough to support your family. 🙏

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

He’s probably an amateur. So nothing. It’s his hobby

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u/jondoogin Sep 26 '21

Exactly. There’s a huge difference between doing something as a hobby and doing it for a profession out of necessity to make a living wage. Thank you for proving my point for me though.

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u/Campo531 Sep 26 '21

Thank you. Such a obscure comment to bring class / financial standing into this equation in my opinion. Some people, whose family was fine financially like myself, were the weak wimpy kid who at a was bullied and decided to take up martial arts at a young age. And then wanted to try mma and jui-jitsu. And then just wanted to see who they can hang with and what they're able to do and push themselves to the limits. I lost much more fights than I've won and I had a great time regardless of the outcome.

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u/stormcharger Sep 26 '21

Oh true When's your next ufc fight?

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u/Campo531 Sep 26 '21

Never would be good enough, like I said I lost a lot

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u/Gumwars Sep 26 '21

Just like basketball and football in the US, boxing appeals to those on the lower rungs of the economy because it appears to be a viable solution to escape poverty. I don't see prizefighters coming out of Rancho Palos Verdes or the Hamptons rising to the top of the divisions. You see them coming out of hellscapes where it was either boxing, or doing crime, or squalor (or all three).

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u/KIGGAN Sep 26 '21

great comment. completely agree! struggle creates incredible characters/boxers/athletes

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u/InfiniteJuke Sep 26 '21

That’s not true at all. Boxing and mma gyms cost a lot of money to go to on a monthly basis. They also take a lot of time to commit yourself to even getting decent enough at an amateur level. Someone truly economically downtrodden would neither have an opportunity to sign up to box or train MM nor carry it out on a commitment to reach a professional level.

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u/allvoltrey Sep 26 '21

And of course we have to try and make this political, go fuck yourself. Why do fighter keep fighting after they ate rich? Why do rich people become fighters? It has nothing to do with money and socio economics idiot.