Boxing is a combat sport, like MMA, and wrestling, and sword fencing, and stick fighting.One of the oldest sports50years ago, Baseball was our national pastime with Boxing secondbaseball is called our national past time, and when it was given that name it really was, baseball was/is a great/better sport to go and watch at the park but football translates so much better over the tv that it dwarfs baseball now
Today, Football is the king
Bah. Boxing isn't a sport. It's beating people up for money.
Sorry, I can't consider a competition to be a "sport" if the objective is literally disabling your opponent. That just ain't "sporting".
These sports require extreme physical exertion.
They are each also infinitely useful in daily life.
Especially if you are an armed guard, because a gun fight is actually also a fight.
All of that is true.
But it doesn't make them "sports". It just makes them conflict, in formalized form.
So is code duello.
If two baseball teams met and before play started one team went and beat the other team up, or otherwise disabled them from participating -- say, locked them out of the field --- that would not be 'sport' either.