What is the history of boxing?
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Boxing was a very important part of the holiday celebrations of ancient Greece and Rome. Boxers wrapped their fists with a piece of animal skin that had bits of metal spikes.
However, unlike today, fights were declared finished only if one fighter killed his opponent. Eventually, before the Christian era, a Roman Emperor prohibited all kinds of fighting with fists. Boxing, as a sport, then disappeared from history.
Who was Muhammed Ali?
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr) was an American boxing champ, who is one of the most celebrated figures of modern times. He is often considered as the best heavyweight boxer of all time and his nickname was ‘The Greatest’.
Early History
- Boxing revived in the European nations during the 1700s.
- The first man to popularize boxing with knuckles (bare hands) in Europe was an Englishman named James Figg.
- Between 1719 and 1730 he defeated all challengers and became the primary boxing champion.
- Then, in 1745, Jack Broughton devised the London ring rules.
- These rules were followed by all future bare-knuckled fights.
- Then again, in 1838, people come out with a set of new rules.
- They stop allowing kicking, biting, head butting, and a touch below the waist.
- However, it was only after 1867 that new rules come out that boxers to wear gloves.
Modern boxing
- Boxers fight according to their ability and weight.
- There are about twelve different weight categories.
- A match was split into three-minute periods known as rounds.
- There is a one-minute rest between rounds. However, a professional match sometimes lasts for twelve rounds.
- In the twenty-first century, most of boxing’s heavyweight champions were from the US.
- They included Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocco Marciano, Joe Frazier, and of course Muhammed Ali.
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