After beating Enrique Carabeo in March 1961, Nápoles found himself a new challenge, outside of the ring; Cuban president Fidel Castro banned professional boxing in Cuba, and Nápoles soon found his career in jeopardy.

He is interested in policy issues related to traumatic brain injury, and has proposed banning boxing.

There has been a national outcry in England to ban boxing since McClellan's injury.

You can't ban boxing.

While banning boxing may be seen as an abrogation of an individual's civil rights, it is comparable to requiring seat belts or motorcycle helmets, which may protect the individual against his will, but the benefits and savings are an advantage to society - in this case, to our humanity.

When he got up to leave, a sportswriter asked him if he would now support a move to ban boxing.

The organisation was even more vocally opposed to boxing, and had proposed banning boxing from the Socialist Workers' Sport International at the 1929 SWSI congress.

In 1961, along with other sports, the Revolutionary government banned professional boxing.

The movement to ban boxing may gain impetus from the fact that, in terms of providing quick and proper medical treatment, everything that could be done was done.

But we'll be asked: How can we ban boxing now that it would be unfair to women as well as poor boys?