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What is Boxing ?

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Boxing (or pugilism) is a combat sport of English origin in which two
participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a
series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. Victory is
achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the
referee counts to ten (a Knockout, or KO) or if the opponent is deemed
too injured to continue (a Technical Knockout, or TKO). If there is no
stoppage of the fight before an agreed number of rounds, a winner is
determined either by the referee's decision or by judges' scorecards.
In some countries with their own fighting sports, the sport is referred
to as "English Boxing" (e.g. in France to contrast with French Boxing).
Fist-fighting for sport probably arose independently in various
prehistoric cultures. [13] Archaeological evidence indicates that
Berbers and Egyptians may have practiced the sport as early as 3000 BC,
and boxing is depicted in Sumerian relief carvings from the third
millennium BC. The earliest evidence for boxing in the Mediterranean can
be found in the Minoan civilization (c. 1500 BC).
The ancient Greeks, and later the ancient Romans, had a sport called
'pugilism' (a term now often used for boxing) which resembled boxing. It
contrasted with ancient Greek wrestling in that it was based on the use
of fists.
Unlike modern boxing, there were no weight classes, fights were not
separated into rounds, and the fight had no time limit, ending at a
knockout, or at a fighter abandoning the fight, or sometimes (though
rarely) at the death of one of the fighters. Instead of gloves, fighters
wrapped their hands in strips of hardened leather which protected the
fist and caused unpleasant injuries for the opponent. Long fights were
decided by an alternation of free punches, with the first to strike a
free punch being decided by tossing a coin.
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