I know many people bet on boxing matches and I recently saw a post on an "slapping tournament". I was thinking that professional boxing is kind of questionable as a sport discipline and even more so as a gambling event. It is known that many boxers sustain long term effects of repeated micro-trauma and even some have been know to die in the ring. For all boxing fans and for others that may have a view on this, how is this being considered a fully legal activity being supported? And how is betting of people hitting each other being considered as legal and ethical in today´s world?
I have just answered something similar in the slapping tournament thread as well. Boxing and slapping, UFC also, is different from racing because the goal actually is to humiliate your opponent. We have had a couple of situations now when boxers died. Imagine you put a big amount of money on your favorite, he knocks the other guy out and that guy dies afterwards, can you still enjoy the money you won? That's a bit odd, a word which fits the topic gambling where it is all about odds...