Boxing History

Boxing:

Boxing, often called "the manly art of self defense," is a sport where two competitors try to beat each other with their glove-encased fists while trying to avoid each other's matches. The competition is divided into a number of rounds, usually 3 minutes long, with 1 minute break between rounds. Although amateur boxing is widespread, professional boxing has flourished on an even more grandiose plan since the beginning of the 18th century.

Rules:

Amateur Matches consist of 3 rounds of professional fights from 4 to 15 rounds. The accepted length of championship fights are 12 rounds. In most countries, is professional boxing, the more popular version, but the rules vary, because there is no true governing body. Even in the USA boxing rules vary from state to state. 

In all of boxing, but the winners are determined either by a decision of the judges (which include points or round victors on a scorecard as the fight progresses), the judge, or both. The winner may also be decided by a knockout when a competitor is sent to the floor of a stroke and can not get up within 10 seconds. A doctor or a judge can declare the boxer injured or defenseless if there is no knock-down. A bound or even fight established ties. 

Boxing ring is actually a square, 12 to 20 feet (3.7 to 6.1 m) on each side and closed on each side of three or four ropes. Gloves were worn by boxers as a general practice since the 1892nd The gloves are made of leather, has no finger holes except the thumb, and weigh from 8 ounces (227 grams) for amateur bouts down to 6 ounce (170 grams) for professionals and all title matches.

Early history:

Boxing occurred when a person first lifted a fist against another in play. Different eras of the sport has been dominated by the use or Nonus of fist coverings. The ancient Greeks believed fist fighting was one of the games played by the gods on Olympus, and so it became a part of the Olympic Games in about 688 BC. Homer has a reference to boxing in the Iliad. During Roman times the sport began to thrive on a wide scale. Boxers fought with leather bands around their fists for protection and sometimes wore metal-filled, leather hand coverings called cesti, resulting in bloody, often duel-to-death struggle. Boxing diminished after the fall of Rome. It was revived in the 18th century in England and became especially popular during the championship reign of James Figg, who held the sole title from 1719 through the 1730th Boxing was a work of Ingman's sports during the industrial revolution, which prizefights attracted participants and spectators from the working class. The organization was minimal at first, and the seizure of these periods were as street fighting more than modern boxing.

The second heavyweight Champion Jack Broughton of England, drew his own set of rules for their own struggles, and these were recognized in 1743. They outlawed some of the gorie aspects that the sport had acquired, which affects below the belt line. Instead of a ring of spectators - hence the name ring - Broughton insisted on a squared-off area. His rules included what is known as "bareknuckle era."

Modern Era:

In 1866 the Marquess of Queensberry gave his support to a new set of rules which was named after him. These rules limited the number of 3-minute rounds, eliminated erosion and wrestling, and made use of gloves mandatory. Bareknuckle bouts did not stop immediately, but began to decline. A new era dawned in 1892 when James J. Corbett defeated the last of the great bare-fisted fighters, John L. Sullivan, the new rules. 

With the growing popularity of boxing, especially in the USA weight classes other than the unlimited heavyweights emerged. These classes became popular since the World Cup was held in the new scales. Currently there are eight major academic divisions: the lightweight (up to 112 lb/50.8 kg), bantamweight (118 lb/53.5 kg), feather weight class (126 lb/57.2 kg), lightweight (135 lb/61.2 kg), Welterweight (147 lb/66.7 kg), middleweight (160 lb/72.6 kg), light heavyweight (175 lb/79.4 kg) and heavyweight (unlimited). In recent years there has been some recognition of junior-scales, or between the scales, as junior lightweight and cruiserweight weight weight.

Because of its violent nature and its identification with the game, boxing has had a controversial history. There have been periodic efforts to ban the sport. The November 1982 death of Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim, for example, asked two leaders in the Journal of American Medical Association (January 14, 1983) calls for a ban on all boxing. The results of a survey conducted by an AMA-sponsored scientific advice appeared in the same issue, and the Council, expressing the official AMA position is not called for a ban, but for improved monitoring and medical facilities at Ringside, with the central register and standardization of safety regulations. Despite these periodic continuing boxer's internationally renowned, particularly heavyweight champions, most of which have in this century, comes from the U.S. Among the best heavyweights have been Muhammad Ali, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Gene Tunney , Corbett and Sullivan. Excellent champions in the lower weight have included Benny Leonard, Mickey Walker, Barney Ross, Henry Armstrong and Sugar Ray Robinson. Louis, Marciano and Ali enjoyed - both in popularity and economic - from the promotion of television games.

Asia and Latin America have produced many champions in recent years in some of the lower weight classes that are less popular in the U.S.. The Communist bloc has done extremely well in Olympic competition.