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Boxing
fstsprobabjy began
Boxing, a sportin which two people ight by hitting each other with th
Howevef ittook along time to develop a8
the frst ime one person punched another in Dlay, not anger
the use of padded gloves and allow boxers onlyto hi
the activity we know today with rules that require
aist and on the front or side。andLdo not allow holding an Opponent
) and ttaly, amd
their opponents above their wi
twas a popular sport in ancient Greece, Asia Minor (mostly modern day Turkey
yas an Olympic event from about 688 BC。 Boxing gloves were apparentjy invented'around 1500,
first recorded_boxing
although fighting was still mainjy with bare fists for many years after that。 The
din 1681zn Britain。 An English nobleman organized the fight between WO ofhis
match' was hel
Servants) The frst Enghish championzfn 1719.as James Figg and it was 3t this time that the word
Boxers stil fought with bare fts and the earliest formal
boxing'was first used to describe the sport
(They recommended using
rules were introduced by another champion、James Broughtoh in 1743
ining butn6Eim actual boxing matches。
jandages or padded mittens to protect the hands in tm
Amajor change came when the Queensbury rules were published in LondoNAin 1862。 These
rules made wearing gloves necessary, fixed the size of the ringranddecided that each, round should be
They became the standard set ofrules
three minutes long, wi breaks of one minute between rounds
under which all boxing matches were foughtand they became common in the USAandCanad: ground
889. The first world heavyweight championship under the Queensbury rules took place in New
Orleans in 1892.
Bare fist fighting continued until the late nineteenth centuryalhogh 1aws were passed in
Britain and the USA to stop 直 was considered to be a crime 6f violence) even ii he Righters both
agreed to the match。 Even today, these fights still take place, and_most of the boxers are 'street
jighfers' from poor areas of the world。 They are attracted by the prize moneyiand promoters of these
iegal malches can st become very rich、in spite of breaking the law so long as they escape being
caught.
