# Helmet boxing

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thumb|Ice hockey players wearing helmets fighting
'''Helmet boxing''' or '''locker [boxing](/source/boxing)''' (also called a "cage rage", "buckets", "helmet fight" or "helmets and gloves") is a game played by primarily teenage [hockey](/source/ice_hockey) or [lacrosse](/source/lacrosse) players in their dressing rooms, basements or locker rooms.<ref name=abcnews>[http://i.abcnews.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=3203615 Dangerous New Trend: Kids' Version of Fight Club]</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.parentdish.com/2007/05/21/is-your-teen-helmet-boxing/ | title=Is your teen | newspaper=Parentdish }}</ref> These are generally not supervised by adults. Participants wear [helmets](/source/helmets) and sometimes gloves and fight in a locker room. The object of the game is to score as many hits on the head as possible until the opponent is knocked down, gives up, or their [helmet](/source/helmet) falls off.

The game is often seen as [rite of passage](/source/rite_of_passage) for players and fighters feel peer pressure to participate. There is false sense of security among teens that face and head are protected.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wcbstv.com/topstories/helmet.boxing.boxing.2.244576.html |title=WCBSTV.com - 'Helmet Boxing' A Dangerous New Craze for Teens |accessdate=2008-07-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611073551/http://wcbstv.com/topstories/helmet.boxing.boxing.2.244576.html |archivedate=2008-06-11 }} "there is a false sense of security if you're using a helmet that you're protected"</ref>

An editorial in the May/June 2006 ''[Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine](/source/Clinical_Journal_of_Sport_Medicine)'' brought attention to the game and its risk of concussion. The teenagers also frequently video tape the game and post the videos to video sharing websites like Myspace or YouTube.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwYA8S-3ZE helmet fight round 1] on YouTube</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120719030938/http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6386259 myspace] "Helmet fight"</ref>

== See also ==
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* [Professional boxing](/source/Professional_boxing)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070222174412/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060512/locker_boxing_060512/20060512?hub=TopStories www.ctv.ca]

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Category:Sports culture
Category:Rites of passage
Category:Ice hockey culture
Category:Boxing

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