History of Boxing

Have you ever wondered how boxing started?

In today’s boxing match we have implemented a set of rules to protect yourself and the opponent. We wear padded gloves to prevent your hand from breaking and a 10 seconds knockdown rule if you can continue fighting or not. But this wasn't the case when it started.

Dating back 2000 years ago, depictions on the wall of tombs of Egypt and stone carving indicate that Sumerians who lived in what is now Iraq boxed at least 5000 years ago. It was an exhausting and brutal sport, people made spectacle of those who fought. In ancient Greece two men would face each other wearing a leather strip tightly wrapped around their hands and they would hit each other until one of them was unconscious or worse till death. Romans would wrap their hands with a metal strip with the intent to kill because of this they deemed it too savage and ultimately banned the sport.

Not until the 16th Century matches had started to become common in Britain’s capital city and by the turn of the century, scheduled fights were taking place at the Royal Theatre. Some of the best fighters on the boxing scene at the time would tour the country in ‘boxing booths’, where they would challenge anyone to go a set number of rounds with them for the entertainment of the crowd and a cash reward for the few who could manage it.

Boxing evolved over thousands of years and it's constantly evolving till this day. Boxing is more than an entertainment, most of these men risk their lives for the future of boxing and thanks to them they laid the foundation of what boxing is now.

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