My Lords, does the Minister agree that, in comparison with other sports, boxing is the only sport in which an individual enters into a ring to inflict damage on his opponent? Would not those two individuals in the ring be arrested if they did the same thing outside the ring?
Boxing
HL Deb 25 October 1995 vol 566 cc1111-2
Lord Taylor of Gryfe asked Her Majesty’s Government:
Whether, in the light of recent tragic events in the boxing ring, they will consider appointing a Royal Commission to examine and report on boxing.
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