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Boxing Blind: Unplanned Processes in the Development of Modern Boxing

2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 9; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/17430430600768785

1743-0445

Patrick Murphy, Ken Sheard,

Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education

Abstract This essay traces the development of boxing from its prizefighting days to its status as a modern sport. The essay is written using a figurational perspective. The broader aim underlying this analysis is to use it as a means of highlighting the central contribution made to the emergence, development and decline of sports forms, and indeed to human history as a whole, by unplanned, unforeseen processes. These phenomena are treated in a non-reified way. They are interpreted as emanating from the complexity of previous human interactions and the limited abilities of the participants to comprehend the nature of the dynamic, power relational networks in which they were embroiled. Unplanned processes take a variety of forms and they are explored further in a more concentrated case study of recent developments in amateur boxing. Notes [1] CitationMurphy, Sheard and Waddington, 'Figurational Sociology and its Application to Sport'. [2] CitationDunning and Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players . [3] CitationWilliams, Dunning and Murphy, Hooligans Abroad ; CitationDunning, Murphy and Williams, The Roots of Football Hooliganism ; CitationMurphy, Williams and Dunning, Football on Trial ; CitationDunning et al., Fighting Fans . [4] CitationSheard, Boxing in the Civilizing Process . [5] CitationElias, Involvement and Detachment . [6] CitationElias, 'The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem'. [7] CitationElias, 'An Essay on Sport and Violence'; CitationDunning, Sport Matters , 56. [8] Elias, 'The Genesis of Sport', 21. [9] CitationAtyeo, Blood and Guts , 142. [10] CitationHazlitt, 'The Fight', 8. [11] CitationWignall, The Story of Boxing , 55–8; Sheard, 'Aspects of Boxing in the Western "Civilizing Process", 41–2. [12] CitationStone, 'Wrestling; The Great American Passion Play'. [13] Sheard, 'Aspects of Boxing', 41. [14] Sheard, Boxing in the Civilizing Process, 218–24. [15] Sheard, Boxing in the Civilizing Process, 264. [16] Sheard, 'Aspects of Boxing'. [17] CitationRawling,. 'Hatton gets World Title Shot'. [18] CitationCooper, Henry Cooper's Book of Boxing , 31. [19] CitationPitt, 'Bare Fists and the Thinking Fighter', 27. [20] CitationCashmore, Making Sense of Sport , 146–7. [21] CitationSheard, 'Aspects of Boxing', 49. [22] CitationRawling, 'Gloves off in the Safety Debate', 1. [23] CitationRawling, 'Boxing Hoping for end to Amateur Dramatics'. [24] CitationRawling, 'Boxing Hoping for end to Amateur Dramatics', 1. [25] CitationHughes, 'Ringside Judges are put on Probation after Wigging', 2. [26] CitationInternational Amateur Boxing Association, Rules for International Competition or Tournaments , Rule XVII, Directives 4a, 1 and 2. http://www.aiba.net/AIBA%20Rules.pdf. [27] CitationRawling, 'Boxing Hoping for an end to Amateur Dramatics', 2. [28] Hughes, 'Ringside judges are put on Probation after Wigging', 2. [29] 'Boxing Judges Warned of Spy Camera', Dawn, the Internet Edition, Citation10 Sept. 2000. [30] CitationBBC Sport, 'Minister Rejects Boxing Ban'. [31] CitationBBC Sport, 'Amateur Boxing Hits on Safety'. [32] Rawling, 'Gloves off in the Safety Debate', 1. [33] Rawling, 'Gloves off in the Safety Debate', 1. [34] CitationElias, What is Sociology? , 104–57; CitationElias, The Society of Individuals .