Death in the Ring
Violent Ends in Combat Sports
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 15 October 2026
- ISBN 9798216373384
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This groundbreaking collection explores how the threat and reality of death shape the culture, business, and ethics of the ring.
MoreLong description:
This groundbreaking collection explores how the threat and reality of death shape the culture, business, and ethics of the ring.
This interdisciplinary volume critically examines the persistent presence of death in combat sports-boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling-and its broader cultural, ethical, and sociopolitical implications. Drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, philosophy, media studies, and public health, contributors interrogate how the threat and reality of death shape the moral frameworks, institutional structures, and symbolic meanings of these sports.
This book reevaluates ethical critiques of combat sports, considering both the risks of physical harm and the social marginalization of athletes. Through historical case studies, theoretical inquiry, and cultural analysis, Death in the Ring positions death not merely as a tragic outcome but as a revealing lens through which to understand the values, contradictions, and transformations of combat sports in society. Essential reading for scholars of sport studies, cultural history, ethics, and media.
Table of Contents:
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I - Morality and Social Death
The Morality of Combat Sports: A Reevaluation
Nicholas Dixon
Boxing and Social Death
David M. K. Sheinin
'No Tap': The Scorn of Safety, the Absence of Regulation, and Toxic Masculinity: The Frightening Risk of Injury in Mixed Martial Arts in Toronto
Matthew McKeown and Bruce Kidd
II - Race and Madness
""War Minus the Shooting."" Deaths in Ancient Greek Athletics
Nigel Crowther
""Haven't I a friend in the house?"": Osborne Taylor and Violent Death in Early Canadian Wrestling
C. Nathan Hatton
As He Lived: Journalistic Commemoration of Jack Johnson's Death in 1946
Carrie Teresa Isard
III - Honor and Technique
Death Before Dishonor: Civilizing Combat Sports
Gerald R. Gems
Mitsuharu Misawa: Life and Death on the King's Road
Aaron D. Horton
""Now I break you, like I broke your friend"": Foreign Baddies and Doomed Sidekicks in the 1980s Combat Sports Film
Tom Peotto
