BOXING

LARRY DE JESUS MEJIA RHENALS

 BOXING
It is a contact sport in which two opponents
fight using only their gloved fists, hitting their
opponent from the waist up, within a ring
specially designed for this purpose; The fight
is carried out in brief fighting sequences
called assaults and according to a precise
regulation, which regulates weight categories
and duration of the match, among other
aspects
 HISTORY

From its origins, boxing has been a popular sport, practiced even before it
was included in the Olympic Games. Among the sports that were practiced in
ancient Greece, was boxing. In Rome, the contestants wore the cestus, metal
hand protectors, studded with nails with which they even killed their
contestants.

Wrestling and boxing are two of the oldest sports, and there are records
dating back to the fourth millennium BC, in Egypt and the East. The first data
of a boxing match in modern times, is located in England in 1681: the Duke of
Albermarle organized a fight between his butler and his butcher. As early as
the 18th century, people fought for money (at that time without gloves) and
spectators made bets. Normally these fights used to end in a fatal way, killing
even their rivals.
 1500 BC: Boxing is one of the oldest known sports, such as wrestling.
6th century BC: Boxing is mentioned in one of the sacred books of India, the Lotus Sutra.
Greece and Rome: In Greece, the gloves kept the fingers out. In Rome it became so violent that it had to be banned.
Year 1681: First mention of a boxing match in modern times organized by the Duke of Albermale, between his butler and
the butcher.
Year 1719: First known boxing champion, James Figg. In those days you fought without gloves and wagers were made.
Year 1743: Champion John Broughton writes the first known rules.
Year 1865: Rules of the Marquis of Queensberry with the use of gloves. Underground fights lasted until a fighter
surrendered or collapsed.
Year 1892: The last world champion without gloves, John L Sullivan, loses the title in his first fight with gloves.
Year 1925: Antonio Ruiz becomes the first Spaniard to win a European championship, at featherweight.
Year 1926: Paulino Uzcudum becomes the first Spanish heavyweight champion of Europe.
Year 1934: The Spanish Boxing Federation is founded.
Year 1935: First champion of the Spanish world, Baltasar Berenger "Sangchili", of the cock weights according to the IBU.
Year 1968-1972: The Spanish José Legrá is featherweight champion in the years 1968 and 1972
Year 1971: Pedro Carrasco is lightweight world champion in 1971.
 HOW TO WIN AT BOXING

- Make the opponent fall 2 to 3 times - The referee may also score a technical
on the mat in the same round (the knockout. This happens when one of the boxers
The objective of
number depends on the competition) carries with him many consecutive blows and
boxing is to hit the
- Knock out, since the opponent falls the referee considers that he is not managing to
greatest number of
to the ground or leans on the ropes, receive them;
direct blows on the
and the referee counts to 10 and the - Finally, one of the assistants can play the towel
opponent, being
athlete cannot get up in that time on the ground, meaning that they are giving up
that in the end the
the fight
judges vote among
themselves until
they reach a verdict
on which of the
athletes scored the
most points with the
blows.
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