That’s because they are out of breath!
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There are a lot of fouls in boxing. Some guys do it any time they think they can get away with it, plus a few more on top of that when they know they’ll get caught. Even if a boxer doesn’t start it, he has to be ready to retaliate when the refs are blind and/or stupid.
After Mike Tyson went cannibal on Evander Holyfield’s ear, Holyfield admitted that he had once bitten an opponent who kept holding him. Boxers are fighting for real, sportsmanship is a luxury in that game.
I know in taekwondo in the Olympics a competitor once kicked a referee in the head, but I don’t know of any such incident in judo.
But yes, the traditions are very strong in judo of conducting yourself with honor. I have competed and refereed and coached, and it is a lot like wrestling - not a major enough sport outside the community to push for bad conduct, and major enough within its own community to push for good. Yes, you get the occasional prima donna and overly invested parent or coach, but the general pressure is the other way. My sensei made it the rule - you can protest a wrong call in your favor, but if it goes against you, keep your mouth shut and win the next time.
Least sportsmanlike - I would suggest sumo, with rampant match fixing and a tradition of mistreating junior wrestlers.
Regards,
Shodan
Similar to Judo is Kendo. One of the most aggressive, violent sports out there, where the goal is to hit the opponent with a big stick before he hits you. But after the match, most players will go out of their way to bow to each other off the court, and most big tournaments have a “godo keiko” or friendship practice the day after the tournament, where most competitors get together just to practice and learn from each other.
Also, it has team competitions, where teams of 5 face off in a series of 1-1 bouts, with best 3 out of 5 winning. But even if one team wins the first three matches, they play out all five, with the last two being taken just as seriously as the first three, even though one team has no chance of winning. They play for the honor of their team and their dojo.
the idea that some professional sports are really unsportsmanlike and some are super sportsmanlike is comically absurd.
I’ll just note that this last caveat in your OP is at odds with the wording of the title of your thread.
Well since you have chosen to shit all over the topic would you mind expanding?
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My assumption is that it’s because every sport has good and bad actors. The premise of the thread is somewhat flawed. Really, the only way you can compare sports (instead of athletes) is based on how much a sports league will tolerate unsportsmanlike conduct. But regardless, people are people whatever sport they compete in.
I disagree. There are definitely sports with a higher culture of honor than others. Apparently based on the responses I’m not the only that notes this.
I think it’s a well thought out and fun topic that apparently the majority of posters here get, but leave it to a handful of crabs to ruin the party.
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Yes, how dare someone express a disagreement on a message board. Surely they are bad people who deserve ad hominem attacks.
Why is there even a disagreement about a friggen sports thread topic? Almost everyone here gets the OP and has had fun responding. A disagreement based on the OP would be one of the sports listed, not the premise.
Don’t be a troll. And don’t think I don’t get your game: you are saying JUST ENOUGH to not get censured by a Moderator, but I’m on to you.
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Sports differ wildly in how easily one can cheat and game the system - usually correlated to how complex the rules are. Football, for example, the beautiful game, is pretty simple. It’s hard to be unsportsmanlike or cheat without being a blatant asshole about it.
Other sports can be the opposite, rugby union say, is all about interpreting and gaming the complex rules in your favour (and influencing the ref likewise), but this would be a sport that is frequently held up as an example of sporting chivalry where explicit dickhead behaviour is frowned upon.
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russian heel, do not accuse other posters of trolling. If you think that another poster is trolling, then report their posts, and let the moderators decide about it. If you absolutely must say something yourself, then say it in the BBQ Pit.
That said, it does not look to me like Atamasama’s posts in this thread are even close to trolling.
For unsportsmanlike, in Formula 1, Michael Schumacher is the stand-out. He was known as the Cheetah. This has an appropriate homophone. His unsportsmanlike activities include stopping in the middle of the track in qualifying, attacking another driver, crashing into another driver deliberately, and many more.
For sportsmanlike, I’ll nominate David Purley in F1 who stopped his car to try to save another driver. Senna saving Comas at Spa in 1992 comes a close second.
A friend of mine played in the NFL and is is the HOF. He has mentioned that in the end, it’s just a fucking game. He also has told me that during and after his career he had great friends on other teams as well as teammates who he hated.
Meh, baseball is lots cleaner than in the old days. No one cuts across the diamond when running bases while the ump isn’t looking, or grabs a baserunner’s belt to hold him back.
Football has cheating i.e. holding on almost every play, and there are a zillion uncalled fouls in the NBA.
Baseball also has very little of the prancing and celebratory crap after scoring that plagues other pro sports.
“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”
- Ty Cobb
Bill Laimbeer was notorious in the 1980s for fouling opponents hard and yet flopping and whining the instant an opponent brushed him slightly.
Bill Romanowski once claimed to have deliberately broken someone’s finger by snapping it when he saw the hand protruding from a huddle-scrum of players during a football game and hearing a subsequent scream.
Curling is so sportsmanlike that they don’t even have officials. Everyone makes their own foul calls (if they even happen).
Absolutely. There are officials but they are seldom used. The curlers officiate themselves.