Father Dave 

Father Dave's Top Ten Reasons Why we Need to Teach Boxing to Our Young People

1. When young people are in a disciplined training routine they have no time to cause trouble
2. Even when they have the time, they are too tired to cause trouble after a solid night's training
3. Young people learn to work happily in a structured environment which has positive effects at school
4. In the boxing gym they learn to accept authority
5. Through competitive fighting, young people learn to set goals for their lives
6. Through deleloping their physical capabilitie young people develop greater self-esteem
7. The training routine teaches them self-discipline
8. Through learning to control their response when they are hit, young people develop self-control
9. Boxing training is very cathartic for persons carrying a lot of emotional baggage or anger
10 When a young person joins a gym they join a new peer group of persons not involved in drugs or criminal activities

All of the above is credited to Father Dave a Anglican Priest in Sydney, Austrailia whom I've only recently learned about via the Internet by way of a book he has written "Sex, the Ring& the Eucharist" Click to Find Out More