Womens Boxing in the Olympics - What's Your Thoughts?

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As you know womens boxing has been introduced to the Olympics for London 2012 as a trial.

Having seen a couple of female bouts I did think the quality of some fights was a bit up and down although there were a couple of cracking fights, Katie Taylor v Natasha Jonas being one that stood out.

What's people's take on womens boxing now,

1. should it be included in the games from now on
2. or is it an unnatural activity for women to be involved in
3. or is it just generally an abomination that should be thrown out.

(Has Trussy's view of the faier sex boxing changed? )

Cheers

superflyweight wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

alma wrote:Edinburgh sounds a great place. Better than Glasgow at any rate

So is the local gutter. Awful place Glasgow.

Lived in Glasgow for two years and then Edinburgh for 7 before recently moving to the sticks. Much preferred Edinburgh (parts of it are stunning and you can walk home from the pub) but Glasgow can be great too. The West End and the Southside are great areas to live and go out in. The problem with Glasgow is that the centre is like a war zone on a Friday or Saturday night. I've never feared for my life more than when standing in a taxi rank queue on Sauchiehall Street at 1am.

Love Edinburgh. Went up a while ago, stayed in Tiger Lily, lovely place. Ate out at Castle Terrace, food was something else, thoroughly recommend it.

It seems to have caught on in a big way so I think its a certainty to be there in the next Games. I think it has actually been more followed than the mens boxing judging by the crowds. Perhaps it could be enjoying the novelty factor though? In four years time maybe it wont be as popular now that it has been establushed. Given its the first time its been allowed into the Olympics there was always likely to be more of a spotlight on it. But I was surprised at how popular it seemed to be. I prefer the format of womens boxing but the whole scoring system need to be changed for men and womens boxing or else the crowds will become dissatisfied. I found the boxing very underwhelming overall and that was in spite of Britains success!

Personally I'm not for women's boxing. Mud wrestling is more fun.