Modern Boxing begin England at early 18th Century. Many call James Figg (1695-1740) father of modern boxing. He is bare knuckle champion 1719-1734, win 269 of 270 bouts, lose title once, then regain it. He own school of boxing, fencing and staff fighting. After that long time British champion is world champion. First intenational bout occur 1860, have British champion Tom Sayre versus American champion John Heenan, their long bout is draw. Tom Sayre's eyes swollen shut, cannot see opponent, John Heenan's hands broken, cannot punch, referee stop fight. John L. Sullivan (1858-1918) is first American world champion.
no western boxing and greek boxing have no relate. greek boxing was a old combat sport from another land modern boxing was created by a Irish sports man the sport got to england where a boxer called james figg made it a world wide sport back then it was called bare knuckle fighting. boxing is likely a greek term when we found out about its first place of birth
in greece boxing came from a fighting style called pankration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration pankration was to violent so they watered it down a little to boxing
the first form of western boxing bare knuckle fighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-knuck...
Free style street fighting.
Kicking and wrestling didn't work too well, in the end when both dudes are tired, it came down to just fists. Feet only for standing or running. No energy left for wrestling.
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Does anybody know who invented Modern-Western Boxing???
I seriously doubt that whatever it was the ancient Greeks were doing in their Olympic games, had anything to do with what we know today as "boxing." And, even "if" it did... Modern boxing must have "reinvented the wheel" at some point, as I highly doubt that knowledge from that era survived millennia to forge the sport/martial art we know today.
I know that the Marquess of Queensberry Rules written by Welshman John Graham Chambers codified rules and regulations that govern and helped shape modern boxing, but that doesn't explain who invented it, or where it came from.
Does anybody know the answer as to who invented modern boxing, and/or where did it come from???
I'd love a history lesson on the subject!!!
AND, why is boxing... called "boxing???" What does fist fighting have to do with boxes, or any other meaning of the word box??? Why not call it pugilism or fist fighting???
Thank you for any information you can provide!!!
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