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                  The Good of Boxing:   Some Ethical Considerations This article looks at the good of boxing, and contrasts it with ring ethics, trash talk and distorted passions in trying to offer a more comprehensive overview of the sport’s ethical dilemmas.  The Boxing Club The good in boxing is often abstract. While it is primarily a physical activity, it also contains social principles. When considering the ethical dimensions of boxing it is worth noting the power of sport to bring people together and foster community. Boxing acted as a magnet to Irish immigrants in London. For instance, the Fisher Catholic Boxing Club (still active) which was established in the early nineteen hundreds by the Monks of Downside Abbey was by 1958 a venue that, ‘caters for any young Irish boxers coming to work in England.’ Fast forward to the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968-1998). Particularly, Eamonn Mc...
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Daniel Mendoza and perceptions of Jews in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England.

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  Daniel Mendoza: The Prize Ring and Perceptions of the Jews in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England. This article endeavours to show ways in which Jews in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England transcended oppressive structures through challenging myths of inferiority. Reading in the early eighteenth-century one might come upon the name Jew beside words and phrases like vicious, corrupt, physically weak or easily victimized. Beside such common tropes, however, existed a more benevolent attitude, like that of Sir Walter Scott who sympathetically depicted the Jews as a people who had nobly endured terrible persecution. Yet, there was another category made manifest through the Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza, 1764-1836. In the eighteenth-century prize fights were being attended by the social hierarchy, including King George III. They celebrated pugilism as a form of 'democratic courage.' This meant that  the plain John Bull (or working class Englishman) could look...
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