What is common between Ernest Hemingway, T S Elliot, Picasso
and GB Shaw? Apart from all being artists and intellectuals they all either
boxed or loved boxing.
The writer Tony Parsons in latest BBC documentary on Boxing
says that you play football, cricket and tennis but you don’t play boxing.
Boxing as a sport according to me helps building character and adds resilience
to it. An ability to take the pounding and still fight on can be an asset while
dealing with adversities in real life.
It need not be a sport for the just the strong. As a sport
too it can improve self-esteem, confidence, discipline and fitness.
In an age where art and intellectualism is stereo-typically
linked to soft and mild people it is good to see that this is not the case in
real.
The very masculine and macho can be good artists and intellectuals
too.
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