2). What is the claim or opinion that is supported in the second paragraph?
A. Boxing has always been a brutal sport.
B. The ancient Greeks used gloves studded with metal spikes, which slashed the face and body and
split skulls.
C. Although gloves are no longer spiked, boxers today sustain injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to
broken bones.
D. It is not uncommon to see a boxer leave the ring with a cut on his face, an eye swollen shut, and a
nose enlarged and bloody.
