Pokemon go.

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Thousands of deaths? That sounds like an exaggeration. Deaths in boxing are very rare.

Not nearly rare enough, since the boxing gloves have been introduced allowing for continuous punching in the head. Here's a list of ~1200 fatalities since the beginning of the 20th century alone. http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=...s#mw-pages

I doubt the list is exhaustive even for that period. And I don't care enough to check if it includes other similar fighting sports, like thai-boxing, or MMA. The point is - if boxing was unknown and was introduced now - every sensible person would consider it un unnecessarily risky activity and a barbaric display too. Pokémon Go has nothing on this sh*t.

Sports are good.

Yeah, sure - whatever you say. Kids giving each other concussions for the sake of entertainment for their idiot parents, trying to live out their own unfulfilled ambitions - that sure sounds... good.

People who fear the risk of injury are just using it as an excuse to stay lazy.

I've got a simple answer to this assertion - bullsh*t. But hey - whatever helps you feel better than other people.

I was just reading a study, you know what the number two cause of premature death is? Physical inactivity. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...221146.htm

Laziness kills literally thousands of times the number of people that sports do.

Edit: Also that list contradicts your claim that nobody died prior to gloves, there are deaths listened on that that go as far back as the 1700s. Also most of the deaths seem to have happened between 1900-1930. As of this year there have been 0. So like I said, extremely rare. Especially in comparison to the millions who die annually from inactivity and obesity. Boxing is many times safer then laziness.