When did Boxing begin?
Fist fighting is depicted in Sumerian relief carvings in the 3rd millennium BC,while an ancient Egyptian relief at Thebes shows fist fighters and spectators (1350 BC). Both depictions show bare-fisted contests..In 1927 Dr E.A Speiser an Archaeologist discovered a stone tablet in Baghdad Iraq depicting two men getting ready for a prize fight, the tablet is believed to be 7,000 years old. Fist fighting or Boxing is also described in several ancient indian texts such as the Vedas the ramayana and the mahabarata. As well as excavations done in Mohenjadaro and Harappa. The earliest evidence for fist fighting with a kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete (c. 1500 BC). The ancient Greeks, and later the Romans, called boxing pugilism (a term now often used for boxing). The Greeks were the first to give rules to the sport: while clinching was strictly forbidden, there were, unlike modern boxing, no weight classes. Fights were not separated into rounds and had no time limit, ending at a kno
