When major sporting days like this occur, I really find myself torn. I was a major tomboy growing up. My two older brothers not only coached my basketball team practically raised me. Sports are a big deal. I even remember my father getting me an early dismissal from grade school to watch Cleveland State in a late-round game of the Final Four. The boys were very jealous. But now as I am trying to live a more mindful life I understand the horrible underbelly of sports like boxing and the Kentucky Derby.
Boxing is a no-brainer. We should be evolved enough to not want to watch two guys punch each other in the face. We should not want to be one of the guys who are punching other guys in the face. And most importantly a guy who punches a guy in the face for a living should not be worth 300 million dollars!
Horse racing is just an abusive of a sport. With a big exception. The horses don't know what the fuck is happening. They didn't sign up for it. They are just trying to outrun the whip. It's not a sport. It's like hitting your neighbor in the back of the head with a golf club, betting on it, and calling it a sport. Plus there are a ton of illegal drugs and losing horses becoming meat. My father always said of horse racing "the jockey wins he gets a million dollars. The horse wins and he gets a bucket of oats."
That being said I'm probably going to glance at the results of both events. But I am not going to give any money to the industry. If you really want to boycott then you can always choose to celebrate World Naked Gardening Day. And yes it is a thing.
Here. Learn something:
http://www.wngd.org/
http://time.com/3843519/manny-pacquiao-and-floyd-mayweather-boycott-boxing-for-good-lipsyte/
http://www.peta.org/blog/see-alarming-peta-kentucky-derby-ad/