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Yes, let's have a bunch of blokes beating the shit out of women in boxing. What could possibly go wrong?
I remember the Brit Awards scrapping gendered awards and putting everyone in the same category. The problem was, the only ones nominated turned out to all be men.
Combat sports already have weight classes, it's not like you'd be putting a man up against a woman he has 30 cm and 50 kg over. If you've got people of similar size and ability, it doesn't seem to me like their sex or gender matters. They all went in there expecting to both hit and get hit.
So if a woman was in the same weight class as Mike Tyson, you think they should be allowed to fight each other? And you think this would be a good look?
These hamfisted attempts at equality are actually the complete opposite.
First of all, heavy weight men =/= heavy weight women at the moment. The kg's aren't the same (men start at 90kg and women 80kg or something?). Second, Mike Tyson beat the shit out of fellow men. Are you going to set the bar for being a man at Mike Tyson? Every guy he beat was actually a woman?
I can't find how much Mike Tyson weighed for every of his fights. This says 99kgs. The heaviest woman I could find (why doesn't a DB exist to sort by kgs?) is Danielle Perkins at 88kg. That's 10kg of difference. No way they're even in the same class unless you leave it open ended. The weight classes would probably have to be redistributed and a new one added. Once a woman gets as heavy as Mike, she could compete against him.
Is it a worse look than what Tyson did to any of his real opponents because of the history of male violence against women, or is there something else you're getting at? And is whether or not it looks good what should be the driving force being decision making in sports?
Oh, but it does. There are major physical differences between men and women, even if they're the same weight. Men have greater muscle & bone density. A man of similar physical fitness of the same weight as a woman will be considerably stronger. There wouldn't even be a competition. It would just be a man beating the shit out of a woman. Nobody wants to see that, despite our desires for equality.