Teddy Atlas on How to Fix Boxing - Part II - Safety of Fighters
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
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4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout revisit the topic, "How to Fix Boxing". This time the focus is on potential ways to make the sport safer for the fighters, particularly after the tragic deaths of both Maxim Dadashev and Hugo Alfredo Santillán.
Should the sport have different rules on weight cuts? Different glove sizes? Shorter or fewer rounds? Teddy and Ken share their thoughts.
Available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/0PWXlMj-2tI
How to Fix Boxing Part I - Refs & Judges is available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/PFcY6EwDous
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ken Rideau joined as always by the |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Ken Rideau joined as always by the Great Teddy Atlas. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to Part 2 of How to Fix Boxing. |
| 0:16.9 | We touched on a bunch of topics in the first episode on this topic |
| 0:20.6 | and today we're gonna pick it up with some other such suggestions on how we can make |
| 0:26.5 | the sport a little bit better and before we start I just want to pass along our condolences to two fighters that we lost in the past month or so Max Dottachev, Russian fighter out of Agis |
| 0:42.1 | Clemens, stable stable a guy that Teddy I know you've met in the past |
| 0:46.8 | He's trained with Alex Vosdick and the and the boys out in Oxnard and Hugo Alfredo Santillon Argentinian fighter also |
| 0:57.4 | passed away within about a week or two of Max and it's obviously tragic anytime we lose anyone in any sporting endeavor |
| 1:05.9 | but in particular combat sport and I know you have some thoughts on the topic. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah I mean as you said, first we, you know, we continue to send our prize out for those two |
| 1:22.2 | fighters and their families and we're doing this show. |
| 1:28.0 | It would need to be done if they didn't, if this didn't happen anyway, |
| 1:32.0 | because we understand the realism of the realities of this |
| 1:36.9 | sport it's tough it's difficult it can be dangerous we understand that. The same way as football, base car driving. Those sports have the same, |
| 1:51.0 | sometimes the same perils or possible perils that are attached to it, the difficulties, |
| 1:58.8 | the dangers that are attached to the sport. |
| 2:03.4 | So whether or not somebody had passed, |
| 2:06.9 | we still would be talking about things |
| 2:10.1 | that make sense to talk about when you understand the sport and understand what you're |
| 2:16.2 | dealing with, that there's always the possibility of somebody getting hurt because of the nature of the sport. |
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