Millions of people worldwide take part as spectators to the sport of prize fighting: better known as boxing. In a 1962 essay entitled “Who Killed Benny Paret?” the author, Norman Cousins, writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. Even though investigations reflect the role of the referee, Paret’s manager, and the doctor’s examinations as the main cause of Paret’s death, Cousins blames Paret’s death on the people that attends boxing matches to see a man get hurt or knockout because he…show more content… Cousins notes that a referee who stops a fight too soon from the crowd’s viewpoint can expect to be booed (par. 8). Audiences that watch boxing on the television are not that far from the live audience, they still support the sport and pay to enjoy watching a man get hurt. Cousins also notes that the time the crowd comes alive is when a man is hit hard over the heart or the head, when his mouth- piece flies out, when the blood squirts out of his nose or eyes, when he wobbles under the attack and his pursuer continues to smash at him with pole-axe impact (par. 8). This is the cause of prize fighting people are expected to be entertain by the fight. Society may be the main cause of Benny Parets death as Cousins agree with Jacobs. It is easy to say that even if investigations looked Paret’s manager, the doctor’s examinations and the role of the referee as potential causes of Paret’s death, Cousins places the blame of Paret’s death on the audience and on the people because he agrees with Mike Jacobs that people like to support boxing and enjoy to see a man get badly hurt and ill. I agree with Cousins the sport of boxing is something that society should not support or enjoy watching. Boxers suffer from damages in the brain after fighting that can become severe and some can die just like Benny Paret. There is no point to see someone get hurt just for entertainment. So if society is who encourages fighters to keep fighting harder no
