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self-discipline, it can teach self-control. i wouldn t call it a panacea for the other ails of society. no doubt boxing has a history of taking people who have criminal backgrounds and offering them a positive outlet for the things they have to deal with in their lives. it s one of the few sports where that was possible for folks with those kinds of backgrounds as opposed to the major league sports, the nfls, the mlbs, especially for those of color wouldn t have been accessible. buster mathis jr. asked his father should i play football or box, and his father said son, please play football because nobody plays boxing. and that s the thing about the sport. is that it takes a chunk out of you. you re signing over a part of yourself. there s a lot of positive that comes particularly from youth boxing but the sport itself institutionally is so corrupt, so decentralized and so thoroughly messed up in terms of how it treats fighters that it