Media release

From: Pasifika Medical Association Group

Corporate boxing matches for charity: a personal point of view

This article is a response to the death of a family member in a corporate boxing match. Corporate boxing matches are promoted as a good method to raise money for charity. Because the fighters are novices of unknown potential, these fights are significantly more dangerous than fights between trained graded amateur or professional boxers. In contact sports, head trauma and concussion have a proven association with severe long term neurological disease. To try and raise funding for charity by promotion of deliberate attempts to induce concussion in an opponent is unethical and nonsensical.