Steps To Making Boxing (And Combat Sports) Safer

By Khari Griffin, J.D. Candidate at Emory Law School (Editor’s Note: The following appeared in Sports Medicine and the Law, a periodical published by Hackney Publications.) Among the numerous viral sports clips, few are as disturbing as the footage of the South African Boxer, Simiso Buthelezi, who began throwing punches at an imaginary target after appearing to receive a normal punch on the chin from his opponent.[1]  Due to Simiso’s disoriented condition, the referee had to promp