Terry K - to answer your second question first: You might as well ask "if the IRA is decommissioned, how will those fighters feed their families?" Come on now... the answer is obvious: those who make their living being involved in the sorry spectacle known as professional boxing, could and should switch careers to something more productive and beneficial to society as a whole, such as the teaching or health care professions.

Whether I "fully understand" boxing is debatable; I'm sure a fan or insider would say I don't. I do have an interest in it, as I do in many things that impact how we, as a society, function and interact. Boxing appeals to the baser insincts of the human animal, those who want to see faces smashed, bones cracked, and blood spilled. I will even concede that there is a benefit to having this played out on the screen, as it may vicariously satisfy those who would go out and engage in such behaviour themselves.

However, it's brutal and it's ugly, and it is not "sporting" by any stretch of the definition.

Cheers,
Michael