As high-impact injuries in football renew concerns over the brutality of the sport, are there lessons from earlier concerns about boxing? In 1982, South Korean fighter Duk-koo Kim died after a championship bout against Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini. Medical concerns about the violence of boxing mounted, and the sport’s foothold in mainstream American culture began to slip.
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As high-impact injuries in football renew concerns over the brutality of the sport, are there lessons from earlier questions about boxing? In 1982, South Korean fighter Duk-koo Kim died after a championship bout against Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini. Medical concerns about the violence of boxing mounted, and the sport’s foothold in mainstream American culture began to slip. Today, several years into a public reckoning with football’s concussion crisis, will there be an impact on America’s favorite sport?
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