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History and Rules of Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two opponents wear gloves and throw punches at each other in a ring for a predetermined amount of time in rounds overseen by a referee. A fight ends if a boxer is deemed unable to continue or is disqualified, and the winner is decided by judges' scorecards or a draw if scores are equal. While hand-to-hand combat has been practiced since ancient times, organized boxing with rules originated in Ancient Greece and became an Olympic sport, later evolving in Britain in the 16th-18th centuries into modern boxing under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

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History and Rules of Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two opponents wear gloves and throw punches at each other in a ring for a predetermined amount of time in rounds overseen by a referee. A fight ends if a boxer is deemed unable to continue or is disqualified, and the winner is decided by judges' scorecards or a draw if scores are equal. While hand-to-hand combat has been practiced since ancient times, organized boxing with rules originated in Ancient Greece and became an Olympic sport, later evolving in Britain in the 16th-18th centuries into modern boxing under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

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Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at

each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.


Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a common fixture in
most international games—it also has its own World Championships. Boxing is overseen by
a referee over a series of one- to three-minute intervals called rounds.
The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified
for breaking a rule, or resigns by throwing in a towel. If a fight completes all of its allocated rounds,
the victor is determined by judges' scorecards at the end of the contest. In the event that both
fighters gain equal scores from the judges, professional bouts are considered a draw. In Olympic
boxing, because a winner must be declared, judges award the contest to one fighter on technical
criteria.
While humans have fought in hand-to-hand combat since the dawn of human history, the earliest
evidence of fist-fighting sporting contests date back to the ancient Near Eastin the 3rd and 2nd
millennia BC.[2] The earliest evidence of boxing rules date back to Ancient Greece, where boxing was
established as an Olympic game in 688 BC.[2]Boxing evolved from 16th- and 18th-century prizefights,
largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid-19th century with the 1867
introduction of the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

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