Boxing History

Boxing It’s one of the oldest of all contact sport and has been dated back to the latest 1000 BC.
Boxing were practiced in placed like Africa, Rome, Egypt, Iraq, and by the Greek. In the beginning boxer then used to be call “PUGILIST and was no rules, matches weren’t by round or by time limit, no weight class and the only way to win or finish the boxing match was by Knock out(KO) or by death.
In the middle of the 1700’s a heavyweight champion named Jack Broughton wrote the first rules in boxing history, by doing it, Jack was protecting other fighter from injuries and death After the 1800’s more modification to the sport of boxing were made;
• The Ring was 24 square foot with ropes.
• No head butt.
• No low blow or below the belt.
• Three minutes round with one minute rest.
• When a fighter was down, had 30 second to rise.
• Introduce of glove with padding.
Following all these new rules in the 1900 a dentist from Europe invented the mouthpiece, and was first used in a professional fight ten years later by a welterweight fighter.
By the middle of the 1970 trying to improve and made the sport safer, some boxing organization made changes to the following;
• The title fights from 15 rounds to 12 rounds.
• The non-title fights from 12 rounds to 10 rounds.
Even with all these changes tragedy has been difficult to evade. Since 1900’s according with the Manuel Velazquez Report more than 1465 fighter have died; during a fight, after the fight, in training including amateur, professional and woman.
Still this number are lower in percentage compared with others sport.
Woman and Boxing History
In the 1970 woman begin to be serious about the sport, but wasn’t till the 1980’s when a huge boxing fitness movement attract woman to the sport, by 1993 the USA Boxing sanction the first woman match, After years of lawsuit against the organization and after that other countries follow.
As today woman boxing attract boxer fans as men fighter do. One of the pioneers of woman boxing was a West Virginia fighter named Christy” The Coalminer's Daughter “Martin, On the night of March 1996 fighting on the undercard of Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno, she stole the show with a great performance blood dripping and punches flying all over the ring.
Since then other woman fighter has made their name with the help of their father, like Laila Ali and Jackie Fraizer.
Cited references
• http://www.britannica.com
• http://www.wikipedia.org

Boxing history