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  • That’s always my argument. How can you categorize something without defining it?

    I always said sports are anything with points that anyone can watch and say ‘yes this person/team won because they scored more or had a faster time’ (like darts, chess, golf, speed walking, competitive eating)

    I define things that the scoring can be open to interpretation by the judge at the time to be an art and not a sport (like ice skating, cheerleader, break dancing, gymnastics)

    I’m not saying people that participate in these art forms aren’t athletes or that it’s not physically demanding. That’s a different conversation

    This definition gets a little messy in things like boxing where a judge can say one boxer was better that round and another judge interprets the other boxer was better. If one boxer gets knocked out then the winner is obvious and it’s more like a sport.

    I don’t really care though, I mainly watch AEW.