has boxing turned into a classless sport?

A bad apple spoils the bunch I was always told when I was a kid. In boxing there are now so many bad apples or so it looks that way that though I love the actual sport itself. The problem is that money rules the sport (like many sports) and you do put your health at risk and so money isn't really the issue IF it didn't go to people's heads so much.



The sport IMO has been ruined from it's roots of being "the gentlemen's sport" and now it's all about trash talking, PEDs, corruption etc. It's just a circus anymore.



Boxing has helped a lot of young kids to be able to do something with their time rather than getting into the usual trouble that we often see these days with kids. The problem however is like anything else... the instructor or coach or whatever isn't always hard enough on his kids to preach to them that this is a sport, this is not to be used in school yard fights or in gang wars or anything else unless it's for SD purposes. The coaches many times are uneducated, don't seem to set good enough examples for their kids... or are just morons overall. This doesn't help matters much.



I think about all of this and think that it's no wonder we have underground fighting and BNB coming back.



Thoughts?