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Boxing has been around for almost 6,000 years. When boxing was first invented it was a type of sport where the athletes sat on a rock and hit each other until one of them was knocked out.
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Boxing has been around for almost 6,000 years. When boxing was first invented it was a type of sport where the athletes sat on a rock and hit each other until one of them was knocked out. Boxing in the Greek Olympics, wasn't that brutal. The athletes wore what was called "thongs" (hickok sports.com) around their hands to protect them. As time progressed the thongs turned into hard leather gloves, hence turning them into weapons. "The Romans added iron or brass studs, creating the cestus, which could be a deadly weapon. Then they went even farther, developing a cruel, spur-like instrument of bronze, called the myrmex ("limb piercer"). Boxing in the Roman Empire was not so much a sport as a bloody amusement for spectators, like the gladiatorial contests, with slaves pitted against one another in a fight to the death" (hickok sports.com). Boxing today may be considered...
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