D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the calls to regulate charity boxing after Kain Parsons' death

The findings of a coronial inquest into the death of a charity boxer in 2018, criticised by a mother for “pulling my son’s integrity apart”, recommend a tightening up of rules and regulations for future corporate events.

The findings come as the Government proposes to repeal the Boxing and Wrestling Act of 1981.

Kain Parsons died on November 6, 2018 – three days after taking part in the “Fight for Christchurch” charity boxing event at the city’s Horncastle Arena, now Wolfbrook Arena.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hither Why not import butter? It's not serious?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Eighteen past four Darcy water Grave Sports talk hoasters with me. Hello, Darcy?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
How much just butter? These days? I must be the
only person.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
How much is butter when you do your baking? Because
you're German?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
She does, she's got too much money. She doesn't keep
an eye on it, she said.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I don't know. I don't. I don't indulge in butter.
I've got no idea, don't you.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
We call Nichola Willis.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm probably the only person. And you see that it
doesn't how much butter is a bit of olive oil?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Spe your butter money traveling the world.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Anyway, buying shoes.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
This coroner's looked into this charity boxing match. What exactly
does the coroner want us to set up here? Is
it a regulator for charity boxing matches?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's hard, isn't it? Telling people what to do and
what they can and can't do. And it's all for
for good health and acc and people not dying. I
understand that, but well, you can lead a horse to
water and invariably will drown. Are going to do things
that aren't good for them, and this is a tragic

(01:05):
case of Cane Parsons, no doubt. But how much can
you lead to slate? We go back to run it straight.
All these other sports too, things are dangerous. Their amate
is they don't go out there to deliberately do something.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I don't understand. I mean, look, I feel terrible
for this guy somehow, and and I wish that he
hadn't died. But if you mean, when you do boxing,
whether it's charity boxing or whatever, you know that if
you get knocked on the head, that there can be
consequences as a result of that. What else do you
need that?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, there's no surprise in that. I was asked actually
by David Higgins of all people, many years ago to
one of his fight night things when they had so
called celebrities fighting so called celebrities, and I'm like, well,
I'm not really a celebrity as well, you're so called Okay, fine,
wanted me to do that, and I said, absolutely not.

(01:52):
What's in it for me? Why? At one reason, if
something goes slightly awry, I'll find myself in a really
bad situation with my brain. And nothing is worth that
for me. It just isn't. I've got too much to
be present for and one stray punch at the wrong
angle can be absolutely devastating. And I respect fighters who

(02:17):
go in through the ring and do this. They're extraordinarily brave.
But the risk reward or the risk reward, people would
say you don't use it any but the risk reward
to me, the balance is not there. It's an awful story,
but I don't wear anything new here. It's like, you
know this motorsport, I love it. Every time you get
a landing. When you go to any form of motorsport,

(02:37):
what it says on the back is motorsport is dangerous.
It is. It's not tidley wings. And in boxing, you
don't play a game of boxing, do you No, it's
not play fighting. So I've been people have. You can't
control people what they want to do. You can warn them,
absolutely you can, but you've got to let people do

(03:00):
what they want to do. Control formed and you can
see it can form consent.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You cannot argue that fully grown adult in the modern
age does not know that you get knocked to the head,
you can have a concussion or worse. Now, listen, eight
dollars fifty for a five hundred grand block at Bulworth's.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Eight dollars fifty for a fine. Well, what can you
do with it? I should know because my daughter from
time to time insists on baking and demands I get buttered.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's just when you're by yourself. No, what do you
have on your toast?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I don't eat toast?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
What do you eat?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I eat porridge because it's winter. Porridge and frozen berries
and the morning eggs, heaps and heaps of eggs, and
a bit of granola with a splash of yogat. It's
more free.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I mean, you have gone down a rabbit hole by Darcy.
No butter, No, you're thank you, Darcy Water Sports Talk post.
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