It seems as absurd as a Labor Day without any women giving birth.
Today is Boxing Day, celebrated more in Canada and the UK than here in the US. Folks that are well off would box up their leftovers from the Feast of the Nativity (more commonly known as Christmas Day) as well as gifts they'd received that they didn't particularly care for, and give them to the poor. Actually, they often gave them to their own servants, but that was pretty much the same thing.
And it doesn't have anything to do with fistfighting. In fact, I'm not sure why the athletic event is called boxing, and a visit to dictionary.com doesn't clear up things at all.
Still, I thought it would be cute to see what boxing is available this evening on TV. Turns out that if you search for boxing, what comes up is cagefighting. It takes place in an octagonal cage, and maybe it's fistfighting, and maybe it isn't - the descriptions aren't very good.
It's probably not as brutal as boxing. Filho fights Doerksen for the Middleweight title at 7 PM in Las Vegas on channel 603 and he's listed as fighting another match, same place, same channel, at 11 PM. Sporting events are normally broadcast live, so either it's not really a sporting event, or else it's a sporting event for wimps.
Still, I don't enjoy seeing people beat each other up, so I don't think I'll tune in....