Posted on 11/15/2015 10:16:56 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Good analysis. Holm also caught Rousey with a brutal left elbow in the first round. Agree, too, that Rousey did not look to be in fighting condition, although five minute rounds for anyone are daunting. Boxed 2 x 2-minute and 3 x 2-minute matches in school...as a southpaw. Just that was exhausting, and I was the fittest I’ve ever been.
I didn’t see it. Did they fight like girls?
What kind of fighting for sport is not “degenerate” then? Sports always originated as physical training for defense of a country.
Truly degenerate “sport” would be of the fight-to-the-death gladiator sort.
So every civilization since the beginning of time?
Guys like watching fighting but they really enjoy watching women fight and always have. They entertain two fantasies, the first is either clothing will be shredded and/or come off the second is that the two girls will start kissing.
What can I tell you? Guys are strange.
Rendering it as “enjoying female entertainment” is itself objectification.
As far as women being physical fighters, I know I’d rather have Boadicea taking my back in a scrap rather than Sappho. If it came down to such a choice.
In Christian Byzantium the preferred spectator sport was the chariot race.
No it doesn't.
Keep digging. There has to be
a pony in there somewhere.
early NASCAR
Where you had as great if not greater a chance of being killed or injured? Often by the other drivers.
So what’s “degenerate” about boxing?
I never watched any of this sh!t and I don’t care about it one way or another, but even with my extremely limited knowledge of the subject I was happy to hear that this Ronda Rousey got her @ss kicked ... even if only to put a stop to this crap polluting the real sports pages.
lots of that going around these days, it seems.
Congratulations to Holly Holm.
A society that profits from the harvesting of unborn baby parts is already far 'down the tubes' and knocking on the doorway to Hell!
Maybe she needs to start ironing shirts and making sammiches.
Nonsense. It's a free country. Get a grip.
Ronda, feel the Bern.
Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1904. It is now an Olympic sport along with women's wrestling and ice hockey.
Women's boxing goes back at least to the early 18th century, when Elizabeth Wilkinson fought in London. Billing herself as the European Championess, she fought both men and women. In those days, the rules of boxing allowed kicking, gouging and other methods of attack not part of today's arsenal. Women's boxing dates back to the early 18th century with Elizabeth Wilkinson-Stokes fighting both men and women in the streets of London. During the 1700s, women boxed in staged competitions at dawn, before fans went to work. Back in the 1700s, women took part in more violent forms of fighting: kicking, scratching, and using other methods of attack are not parts of today's boxing rules. This new style of fighting became popular in England. Elizabeth Wilkinson-Stokes is credited for being the first female boxing champion in England.
Where do you draw the line as to what sports women can participate in?
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