Is boxing a stupid sport?


https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/09/sport/john-cooney-death-boxing-spt-intl/index...




By George Ramsay, CNN
2 minute read
Published 7:52 AM EST, Sun February 9, 2025


Cooney has died at the age of 28, days after taking part in a title fight.


Cooney was defending his Celtic super-featherweight title against Welshman Nathan Howells at the Ulster Hall in Belfast on February 1 when the bout was stopped in the ninth round.

He was taken to Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital for treatment and subsequently underwent surgery to relieve pressure on his brain from an intracranial haemorrhage, Dunlop said earlier this week.


Irish boxer John Cooney has died at the age of 28 from brain injuries sustained in a fight, his promoter announced on Saturday.

“It is with complete devastation that we have to announce that after a week of battling for his life John Cooney has sadly passed away,” promoter Mark Dunlop said in a post on Instagram.


“Mr. and Mrs. Cooney and his fiancee Emmaleen would like to thank the staff at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital who have worked tirelessly to save John’s life and for everyone who has sent messages of support and prayers,” Dunlop added in Saturday’s statement.


The end of the actual fight:

Just shows how great Boxers are.
Should we ban Cricket because a batsman got hit by a fast ball on the temple?
Or other athletes that have pushed themselves beyond their limits to win and have died?
Like motor sports and marathons.

Sport has death, just like every other profession.
Musicians die too.

I watched a late night Australian boxing program many years ago, live. I think it was a Fenech promo series.
Anyway, some Aussie boxer was fighting a Russian.
I think come the start of the 9th round. The Aussie boxer got up off his stool and fell forward... dying instantly from a brain clot. This was live.
Pretty amazing stuff. The Russian quit boxing after that. Freaked him out that he had killed a man without firing a shot.

Fact is, that Boxing has saved many lives and given people a hope to earn a living when there is none. It's not perfect, but if just 1% die in the ring. Then that in itself is a win.
There are far more dangerous professions out there compared to boxing.
When is some spectator in a cricket crowd going to die from a hard cricket ball they didn't see coming?
Ban Cricket?

Tim Tszuyu gets a TKO win easy against a nobody (Spencer) who didn't put up a fight and was towelled out.
What got me is Tszuyu walked in with that tired old yobbo Down Under song that feels like it's 50 years old. 

Yes. I believe that. Shame Kostya left them all for Russia where he got another nice young concubine and new life. Nikita, the Mother's son seems more mentally stronger than Tim.