Talk:Boxing

message: "There is a generally accepted rule of thumb about the success each of these boxing styles has against the others. In general, an in-fighter has an advantage over an out-fighter, an out-fighter has an advantage over a puncher, and a puncher has an advantage over an in-fighter"
I can't see this statement as being in anyway true, especially not without a citation. Out fighters always have the advantage, all an in fighter can do is try take that advantage away from them. There's no such thing as a small arm advantage.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.110.92 (talk) 01:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: From a close range, a short armed fighter can throw more effective punches than a long armed fighter. That is where an infighter has an advantage over an outfighter. 125.191.99.202 (talk) 06:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: An in fighter has an advantage over an out fighter?

message: There is no list of boxing weight classes here - which seems ridiculous considering the detail of other technical info - it seems to me that this is one of the first things a novice looking up boxing in an encyclopaedia would want to know - i've added a link in the see also section - but sadly don't have time - or interest - to do more : --kyle mew 22:14, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Weight Classes?

message: Note: This is not to insult anyone specifically, it is just what I found when I got here.
This article is informative, but kind of overloads the average Wikipedia reader. Entire sections should probably be removed, summarized, and/or put into their own pages.
Examples include:
Clothing
Style Terminology
Technique
Corner
I am not, however, an expert on Boxing, so I'm probably not going to touch it much more than the random touch-up as I read through the article. Just thought I'd bring it to people's attention.
Firestorm713 (talk) 04:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article really needs help 

message: This article makes a couple of references to "young English boxer Jonathan Oakey" as being a prime example of various boxing techniques. I'd never heard of the guy, so I just looked up his wiki page. He's only ever had 8 pro fights, so I think he's hardly deserving of being mentioned in the same context as Ali, Mayweather, La Motta etc as prime examples of particular aspects of boxing. So I've gone ahead and deleted all references to him in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.185.153.35 (talk) 19:18, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jonathan Oakey 

message: There's so many terms, techniques in plain boxing, that I started a navbox: User:Steveprutz/boxing. Still a rough draft. Hoping to put it in Template:Boxing before the week's end. Request for comment here. StevePrutz (talk) 13:23, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boxing Navbox 

message: "The boxers are generally continue, if an opponent is disqualified for breaking a rule, or a winner is determined either by the referee's decision or by judges' scorecards at the end of the bout."
This is not English. Maybe someone could fix that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.181.81.222 (talk) 20:35, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Second Sentence 

message: Hello: 
I'm not sure which department to contact regarding this issue. 
In your department named: List of British lightweight boxing champions ARTHUR KING is not mentioned and the existing info in incorrect. I would like to bring to your attention that my father ARTHUR KING won the British Empire Title fight from Billy Thompson  on October 01, 1948. For some reason ARTHUR KING is not listed on the "Lightweight British Empire Champions" list. Please see some links below that should help you see that he indeed did win the Title at:
King's Hall, Belle Vure, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom. 
Can you please correct this.
If you have any questions, you can contact me by email, kck1@hotmail.com
Kind regards,
Kim 
 www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20111216.OBITARTHURKING> www.boxrec.com/list; Type in  Arthur King to see boxing record
 www.boxingtreasures.com/19bithvsarki.html 
 www.boxingtreasures.com/arkivsbithvi.html 
 thecruelestsport.com/2011/12/15/arthur-king-1927-2011/Cached
 news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat...id...sjid> http://news.google.com/newspapers?   www.britishpathe.com/video/one-minute-news-15 - starts with fashion show...then see fight  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.254.146.107 (talk) 23:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ARTHUR KING BRITISH EMPIRE CHAMPION TITLE: OCTOBER 01, 1947 

message: "ヒットアンドウェイ" is a Japanese term for Out-boxing. Not sure how to appropriately cover it, though I created a redirect.Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 19:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hit and Away 

message: Can someone tell me what this title means, and should it be mentioned in the article? It is an often used and heard expression in boxing, but no one seems to know its meaning. --Wikiplex (talk) 00:22, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intercontinental-Champion 

message: I have some concerns about two implications in this section. 
Firstly, 'Since 1980, more than 200 amateur boxers, professional boxers and Toughman fighters have died as the result of ring or training injuries.[30] Thus[clarification needed], in 1983, the Journal of the American Medical Association called for a ban on boxing.' I imagine the AMA's call was based not solely on the deaths in the previous three years, and certainly not on the subsequent twenty-nine. The conjunction of these two sentences by 'Thus' can't be right.
Secondly, 'It was banned in Albania from 1965 till the fall of Communism in 1991. Now it is still legal.' This last sentence is either completely irrelevant or carrying a bias, implying that it should be banned.84.192.118.77 (talk) 18:11, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Medical use case for prevention (one of many): swimming pool. Neurons regenerate in water because of its hydrostatic and hydrodynamic properties ORGANIZATION OF NEURONS: NEURONAL POOLS  RippleSax (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical Concerns 

message: I suggest locking this article for unregistered users because of the frequent vandalism. This article is pretty much complete, and only constructive editations are being made by registered users. Locking up this article would help a lot, as I and other users don't have time to revert endless vandalisms here. Thank you --Novis-M (talk) 12:39, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lock up the article 

message: I believe there has been somewhat of a conflation between a Richard Parkyn and one Thomas Parkyn. The former being a Cornish wrestling champion from St. Columb Major (Bunnyip is certainly not in Cornwall), whilst the latter, whom the information in the article correctly concerns, hails from Bunny in Nottinghamshire.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.223.168.223 (talk) 14:43, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake  

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Added a link to Punch_(combat). 
:This news item came up recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/10/21/scientists-slap-stuff-with-cadaver-hands-to-study-the-evolution-of-human-fist-fights/
I wonder if it could be added here at some point. The question that it raises is whether boxing or punching is universal enough to suggest that human hands evolved to form fists. I'm doubtful about this. Kortoso (talk) 18:25, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Punching 

message: The content of Amateur boxing entirely overlaps with this article, apart from the three sections on rules in different countries, two of which are uncited. It should be merged here. Or if the rules sections are worth keeping, moved to Amateur boxing rules by country or similar, with the lead and history sections removed. ··gracefool 💬 21:22, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. So at least most of the content of the three should be merged. ··gracefool 💬 00:39, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Well basically I see either 3 articles or 1 article - and I think 1 article would be way too big.  Perhaps moving some of the material from Boxing to both Amateur or Professional would be more helpful.Peter Rehse (talk) 09:04, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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message: There is a draft for an outline on the subject of boxing found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Drafts/Outline of boxing if anyone is interested. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:37, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft outline 

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message: After a little look through of this main article, I didn't see a section for other types or cultures of boxing, but I thought Etu might deserve a link, as it's a type of ceremonial boxing that could deserve mentioning. Maybe a Boxing Traditions of the World section or some such.
Etu could use the linkage (it's near-orphan status), and it would help Wikipedia combat its common west-civilization-centric view writings we've been dinged for in the past.
-Cheers!~~ Elfabet (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any opportunity to include [[Etu]]? 

message: As explained clearly in  and , there is no mention of 2nd millennium BC reliefs from the Mesopotamian nations of Assyria and Babylonia or Hittite art from Asia Minor in Byron Nakamura's Boxing in the Ancient World. There is mention of 3rd millennium BC Mesopotamian reliefs (which are already covered in the article by the first sentence of the History section), a 2nd millennium BC Egyptian relief (which is already covered in the History section), and 2nd millennium BC Aegean vases (which are also already covered). The reference can be added to the existing references for the existing content but it cannot be used to support any insertion or claim that is not found in the source and should not be placed next to material that is not found in the source. DrKay (talk) 07:14, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page protection 

message: Book might be useful for this article. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D (talk) 21:44, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horne book "The Bittersweet Science" 

message: We should add a separate section that covers all criticisms of boxing as well as ethical concerns ranging from religious or non religious concerns Nlivataye (talk) 20:05, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethical concerns 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Pugilistic and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  1234qwer1234qwer4 15:36, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pugilistic" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Greetings, all. In case anyone's interested to participate, a Request for Comments was opened in the talk page of the infobox template for boxing match. The question posed is whether the age of the participants in a boxing match is worth mentioning or not. - The Gnome (talk) 13:18, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC notification 

message: It seems that large portions of the article concerning the modern sport at the time of writing only address men's boxing, not acknowledging the existence of differences in regulations between men's and women's versions of the sport. Though a link to the separate Women's boxing article can be found in the "See also" section for those who go looking for it, I think it's easy for a casual reader to assume that the "Rules" section does not contain any information specific to a gender, since the article up until that point has discussed boxing from both a male and female perspective. (E.g. under "History", the "Early London prize ring rules" subsection brings up an example of how the rules also applied to women fighters).
I suggest either that the article is edited to clarify that the rules described apply to men's boxing, with a link to the relevant section of the Women's boxing article added to the beginning of the "Rules" section, or that that section is rewritten to mention where the rules differ for men and women. Radiant64 (talk) 08:10, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implicit gender? 

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* Sam Andre and Nat Fleischer (1988). A Pictorial History of Boxing. Hamlyn. .
* Baker, Mark Allen (2010). TITLE TOWN, USA: Boxing in Upstate New York. .
* History of London Boxing. BBC News.
* Weight classification, "2009". Encyclopædia Britannica.
* Carvill, Pete (2024) Death of a Boxer. Biteback Publishing. 
* Fleischer, Nat, Sam Andre, Nigel Collins, Dan Rafael (2002). An Illustrated History of Boxing. Citadel Press. .
* Fox, James A. (2001). Boxing. Stewart, Tabori and Chang. .
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* Halbert, Christy (2003). The Ultimate Boxer: Understanding the Sport and Skills of Boxing. Impact Seminars, Inc. .
* Hatmaker, Mark (2004). Boxing Mastery: Advanced Technique, Tactics, and Strategies from the Sweet Science. Tracks Publishing. .
* "Accidents Take Lives of Young Alumni" (July/August 2005). Illinois Alumni, 18(1), 47.
* Death Under the Spotlight: The Manuel Velazquez Boxing Fatality Collection
* McIlvanney, Hugh (2001). The Hardest Game: McIlvanney on Boxing. McGraw-Hill. .
* Myler, Patrick (1997). A Century of Boxing Greats: Inside the Ring with the Hundred Best Boxers. Robson Books (UK) / Parkwest Publications (US). .
* Oates, Joyce Carol. On Boxing (with photographs by John Ranard) (1987, revised edition, 2006)
* Price, Edmund The Science of Self Defence: A Treatise on Sparring and Wrestling, 1867 (available at Internet Archive, , access date 26 June 2018).
* Schulberg, Budd (2007). Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage. Ivan R. Dee. .
* Silverman, Jeff (2004). The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring. The Lyons Press. .
* Snowdon, David (2013). Writing the Prizefight: Pierce Egan's Boxiana World (Peter Lang Ltd)
* Scully, John. Learn to Box with the Iceman
* Ronald J. Ross, M.D., Cole, Monroe, Thompson, Jay S., Kim, Kyung H.: "Boxers: Computed Axial Tomography, Electroencephalography and Neurological Evaluation." Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 249, No. 2, 211–213, January 14, 1983.
* U.S. Amateur Boxing Inc. (1994). Coaching Olympic Style Boxing. Cooper Pub Group. .
 82.20.143.37 (talk) 14:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliography

message: Typo. 5.47.233.217 (talk) 05:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jamedeus (talk) 06:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 May 2024