NOAH IN 928:
BOXING
October 21, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia
“Boxing is the most human sport,” I heard. “It’s all primal like we used to be.”
Something about that statement unsettled me. As does boxing as a concept.
One man trains for years for an event that might last 90 seconds. He punches. He lifts. He runs. All to do what? Hurt another man who does the same thing? People pour in, spending money on tickets and popcorn, to watch two people whose sole intent is knocking the other into oblivion.
People that have made a profession out of surrendering all the grace and gentility they have to become human hurters.
I always believed loving was the most human thing one could do. Before Cain killed Abel, Adam and Eve loved. They created. They sinned. They forgave. They walked. They communed. They, more than anyone else that has, existed. They lived in complete adoration of what it meant to be human.
If boxing is the most human sport, then our world as it is makes a whole lot of sense.
