If you can't beat them on the scoreboard...

[Guest micah]

We never really did lockerroom boxing, but we did do a lot of drunken basement boxing as teens. Good, clean fun. Chicks dig black eyes.

[Guest micah]

This stuff isn't limited to just teens either. Profesional hockey players occasionally fight eachother for practice, out of anger, or as a favor to the other guy in training camp.

I'm reminded of the Bob Probert interview where the newsman asked him about his fight with Joey Kocur after Kocur was signed by the Wings out of the beer leagues (in direct response to Blackhwak Probert roughing up soft Wings) and Probert responded that they had much better fights when they were living together as teammates. I like to think they duked it out on the set of that Little Ceasar's commercial where Joey and Bob heckle the kid for wearing an Yzerman sweater.

[stevkrause 1,247]

Talk about a sensationalized story. You'd think the kids were having UFC fights in the locker room.

no kidding... from first read, you'd think these kids were bare knuckle boxing... there's not a person who played the game who didn't locker box - it's harmless and people need to lighten up...

[Guest GordieSid&Ted]

Well to be fair most of these fights happened way before or after practices it wasn't so much a way to get pumped up as it was a way to pass time when there wasn't a whole lot else to do. Wasn't so much about acting tough as it was having having fun.

That's what I meant by "tomfoolery". Every young guy who's ever laced up hockey skates has play fought and messed around. What i'm talking about is the guys who would take it more seriously like it was a big deal if they could pop somebody or whatever. Those guys never so much as threw a punch when we got on the ice. Kidding around is one thing. And I find that harmless. I just always felt that when it wasn't simply goofing off, that it was a waste of time and a farce. I guess that kind of thing motivates some people. If that's what they need to get motivated I guess that's their biz.

Edited February 23, 2010 by GordieSid&Ted

[55fan 5,133]

Heck, we did this in band. Teaches some good life lessons- like

-how to hold your head up if a football player is coming at you

-the fact the punches hurt, but turtling hurts more, and you get over the hurt from the punches faster than the shame of having turtled

-how to absorb a punch

-how to throw a punch (or in my case, how not to)

-that is it is better to go down fighting than wuss out

You learn to stick up for yourself and not back down. Good things to know, even if you never face another punch in your life. I know if anyone ever challenged me to a fight, I'd get my clock cleaned, but I also know that I'd get back up again.

Everyone should know some basic self-defense. You just never know when you'll need it.

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

We never really did lockerroom boxing, but we did do a lot of drunken basement boxing as teens. Good, clean fun. Chicks dig black eyes.

Oh... eyes.

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

From Toronto Star :

When a group of teen hockey players near Sault Ste. Marie engaged in the increasingly high-profile phenomenon of locker room boxing two weeks ago, their league dropped the hammer.

Four players were each handed seven-game suspensions and the condemnation of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA). That punishment is seven times stiffer than the suspension meted out to five Toronto teens who committed the same offence here only a week earlier.

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