Boxing - Overview

Boxing is a sport played between two players. Boxing is the act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent. Boxing is also called pugilism and prizefighting.

Boxing sports involving attack and defense with the fists. In the modern sport, boxers wear padded gloves and fight bouts of up to 12 three-minute rounds in a roped-off square known as the ring. There are many different styles and forms of boxing.

In ancient Greece fighters used leather thongs on their hands and forearms, while in Rome gladiators used metal-studded leather hand coverings (cesti) and usually fought to the death. Not until implementation of the London Prize Ring rules in 1839 were kicking, gouging, butting, biting, and blows below the belt eliminated from the boxer's standard repertoire.

In 1867, the fighters used gloves on their hands, though bare-knuckle boxing continued into the late 1880s and rules are called Queensberry rules. John L. Sullivan was the last fighters of the great bare-knuckle boxing. From Sullivan on, the U.S. became the premier boxing venue, partly because immigrants supplied a constantly renewed pool of boxers.

Boxing has been included among the Olympic Games since 1904. Today there are 17 primary weight classes in professional boxing. Women’s boxing will be introduce for the first time in Summer Olympics 2012.

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