Boxing History

In this Earth there are plenty of sports for an athlete to choose from. From basketball to football to the worldly known sport of soccer. Many sports were started for the focus of entertaining an ambient amount of fans at a time. Some sports were even played so that some jail inmates would be killed. In which a sport that flourished all the way back from 1500 BC, is pugilism also known as boxing.

In the sport of boxing, there are two competitors that fight with their fists at a time. These competitors use gloves on their fists and they are known as boxing gloves. In professional fights there are twelve rounds and each rounds lasts up to three minutes. In between each round there is one minute of rest. Some boxing matches end early because

In the early years of the sport ancient Greeks believed that fist fighting was one of many games played by the gods on Olympus (teamusa.org.) Which by this belief boxing made was part of the Olympic games in the 688 BC. Then as time passed boxing became a very popular sport in the Roman times. During those days the boxers fought with leather bands, which were wrapped around their fists. Sometimes the fighters wore hand covering that were filled with metal in which resulted in bloody to deadly fights. This only made boxing that much more popular because it showed the fans that people were wiling to die for a sport. After the fall of Rome, boxing started to diminish. Then in the 18th century in England the sport started to start becoming popular once again (usa.org.) During the Industrial Revolution boxing became a workingman’s sport because prizes such as money were being offered to the winners. This not only attracted many fighters but the number of spectators increased drastically. After people got out of their daily job they would go and see boxing fights many times these people would also bet money on their favorite

But in boxing men aren’t the only ones that wear the spongy gloves. Women have actually started to be part of the famous sport of boxing. In the United States there are approximately 3,000 women that are registered to box every year (teamusa.org.) The first female victory ever to be recorded was in October 1993. This match was between Malloy, a six-teen year old from Bellingham, Washington, against Heather Poyner from Lynwood, Washington. Six-teen years after this boxing match happened on August 2009, after an IOC decision, women’s boxing made its Olympic Debut. There is three weight divisions: flyweight (112 pounds,) lightweight (132 pounds,) and middleweight (165 pounds.) Ever since the United States female boxing team made it to the Olympics; there has been two medals won. A gold medal by Claressa Shields (middleweight,) and a bronze medal by Marlen Esparza (flyweight.) Even thought the rules for women’s boxing in the United States is similar to the men’s, there are still some additions to the list. Women have the option of using breast and groin protectors and they have to sign a waiver stating that they are not pregnant at the time of the