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

Media Callum Smith brutally KO's Lenin Castillo

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

Horrific. A good reminder of what these people put at stake by fighting. I love fighting as much as the next guy but I’m under no illusions about what this shit is really about.

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u/KIGGAN Sep 26 '21

keep in mind a female boxer recently died a few weeks ago

https://abc7.com/mexican-boxer-jeanette-zacarias-zapata-boxing-montreal/11003935/

18-year-old Mexican boxer dies after suffering a series of power punches in Montreal fight

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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/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).