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Boxing is a combat sport that is of prehistoric origin. In this sports two participants of similar weight fight with each other with their fists in a series in an interval of one to three-minute. These are called rounds. Victory is only achieved when the opponent is knocked down and is unable to get up before the referee counts to ten. This is called a Knockout, or KO. If the opponent is deemed too injured to continue further, then this is called a Technical Knockout, or TKO. If there is no blockage of the fight before an agreed number of rounds, the winner is determined either by the referee's decision or by judges' score cards. In some countries, this fighting sports is referred to as “English Boxing”. In contrast to this, the boxing in France is known as “French Boxing”.
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Archaeological evidence shows that Berbers and Egyptians may have practiced the sport as early as 3000 BC. Boxing is also depicted in Sumerian relief carvings from as esrly as the third millennium BC. The earliest evidence for boxing in the Mediterranean can be found in the Minoan civilization. The ancient Greeks, and later the ancient Romans, had a sport called “pugilism”, which shows some similarity with the modern sport of boxing. But now the term is often used as a synonym for boxing. It is different from ancient Greek wrestling in that it was based on the use of fists. Unlike modern boxing, there were no weight classes. The fights were also not separated into rounds, and it had no time limit. The game further did not ends at a knockout, or a fighter abandoning the fight.
In China, the Zhou Dynasty in the 12th Century B.C., started a form of wrestling, Jiao li that closely resembled boxing. This combat system included techniques such as joint manipulation, throws, strikes, and pressure point attacks. Throughout the 17th to the 19th centuries, boxing busts were determined by money. The fighters competed primarily for prizes. The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur Boxing. Amateur boxing was recognized as an Olympic sport in 1908. In its current form, Olympic and other amateur fights are typically limited to three or four rounds and the score is computed by points based on the number of clean blows landed.
This is independent of impact, and fighters wear protective headgear that reduces the number of injuries, knockouts and knockdowns. Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in countries like Cuba and some former Soviet republics. No two fighters' styles are identical in boxing. A boxer's style is evolved as he applies what he has been taught to him or what he picked up in practice, and performs it in such a way as to suit himself. There are many terms that describes the various styles in boxing.
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