Should boxing fans do away with the word "coward" in describing boxers?

I find it totally disrespectful to call any person who gloves up and steps in the ring a coward. Boxing takes a lot of courage and skill and takes a person with heart and determination to get in the ring and swap punches. To me the coward is the person watching and criticizing the man or woman in the ring who is braving the sport and taking the punches, those who call names are probably the biggest cowards around. Maybe these name callers should glove up sometime and see how well they'd do in the ring, it would teach them a valuable lesson and some manners!!!