I'm a nerd, and to top that off I also happen to be a sports nerd. So today as I read a Rick Reilly article about chess boxing here (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5083962), I had to wonder one thing: WHY is boxing considered a sport?

I understand the idea of wanting to bash someone's head in and I can see that the rest of America shares my fascination, but is boxing really more strength training than it is the ability to take a punch? Lots of things can be sports (frisbee golf, alligator wrestling, even dolphin-riding) but if a sport measures its ability in who can take a punch to the face the most then it's not a sport. It's masochism.