The Gloves Up Knives Down believes that learning boxing at a young age would be helpful in teaching kids discipline.
The sport will teach children more than just fighting, it will also make children capable of fighting against a knife crime in the future.
The group says: “Boxing is a helpful sport in building positive interventions to young people when they are at risk of knife crime.
“We believe that the discipline and respect that you learn through boxing can have a positive impact on young people’s lives, teaching them life skills that can have a positive influence outside of the boxing gym.”
In physical activity classes, boxing was not mandatory. Since the early 1960’s, it ended completely.
The petition to make the sport mandatory has set up this week and got over 2,000 signatures already.
A tweet with its petition was sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, by the group: “Have a look at this Boris, let us get boxing back into schools to make kids confident and teach them discipline and structure.”
Well, known fighters David Haye, Tyson Fury, and Anthony Fowler have promoted Gloves Up Knives Down when it is established this year.
The campaigners believe that this sport will help in decreasing the rate of knife crime, and that is why they are encouraging young people to learn boxing.
Its website says: “GUKD is an answer to the lack of meaningful responses against the knife crime. The motive is to encourage young people off the streets and inviting them into Boxing clubs.
“The boxing club environment, which has rigorous safety arrangements, teaches risk and demonstrates that actions have consequences-simply put you can actually get hit if you don’t move quickly enough. The difference between real life and computer games could not be starker.
“Boxing teaches teenagers, for whom frustration and aggression are part and parcel of their youth, how to engage with others on their own terms, contributing toward developing a sense of worth and self-esteem, perhaps after not having been able to do so in other areas of their life.”
According to the National Statistics data, Knife crime incidents have increased by 7 percent in the 12 months to the end of June 2019.
Reportedly, 43,516 knife crime offenses took place between March 2018 and March 2019, and 43 police forces have recorded the number of increase in knife crime since 2011.
Former boxer Kevin Mitchell said on Twitter: “Talking to a lot of different people about knife crime lately and everyone I talk to is agreeing it’s getting a lot worse.
“I think we need boxing back in schools and think this would be a big help and start solving this situation.”
The record number of parents who are afraid are sending their kids to self-defense classes was also revealed earlier.
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