Reply #5: If you didn't know, boxing has boxing commissions [View All]

[Kagemusha]

and these commissions are charged with regulating events in a given state. If an event is officially sanctioned by a commission, it is considered legal. I would not sink to calling this a "loophole". Boxing was illegal in the US for many years. It has tenuous legal footing; if Congress (due to say, John McCain) revoked the relevant laws then boxing would immediately revert to what it was before.

Research the history of American football prior to the reforms of 1905 and you'll see it was completely unregulated college activity little safer than the unregulated fencing that went on in Austrian universities. People died. And it was accepted, for a time. Tribal mentality for you.

Again, a legal veneer of respectability was placed over these sports in return for regulation and especially, organized refereeing and safety measures.