BOXIN

• Boxing match.

• Boxing (English boxing), also sometimes called English or Irish boxing boxing, and colloquially known as box, is a combat sport

in which two opponents fight using only their gloved fists, beating his opponent from the waist above, within a ring

specially designed for this purpose, in brief fight sequences called rounds or rounds and according to precise rules, which

regulates weight categories and duration of the meeting, among others.

• The first codification of the rules governing boxing matches dating back to 1743, while still current rules were established in 1889 by the Marquis of Queensberry, who among other things introduced

the use of gloves.

• It has traditionally been considered an exclusively male sport, legally and culturally affected by gender bias. The recognition of

the rights of women and progress in the fight against discrimination, have allowed in recent decades recorded a boom in

female boxing, so 20112 Pan American Games and the Summer Olympic Games of 2012 included female boxing in several

categorías.3

BACKGROUND

• Fighting with the fists as competition show is one of the oldest sports in the world. The skills of boxing have been practiced since ancient times in all continents except Americas.4

• Its origin is African and dates back to 6000. C., in the present-day Ethiopia, from where it spread first to the ancient Egyptian civilization, 5 and later Mesopotamian civilizations, where boxers are bas-reliefs dating from 5500. C.4 In Egypt became developed Minoan civilization in Crete, while the spread to Mesopotamia India.4

• The boxers Egyptians used a type of glove that covered her fist until codo.4 The custom of wearing gloves is also in Crete and then in ancient Greece, where there are already references to boxing in the Iliad of Homer in the eighth century . C.

• Boxeador delQuirinal. Escultura en bronce del período helenístico (siglo I a. C.). Nótese los vendajes en la mano izquierda del "boxeador de Terme". (Museo de Roma).

ORIGINS OF ENGLISH BOXING

Boxing Match "bare-knuckle" at the beginning of the eighteenth century in England.

• The word "boxing" and was used in England in the sixteenth century to refer to a brawl puños.9 But the first record of a boxing as sports tournament between two opponents, is 1681.10 while the first use of the word "boxing" to refer to the sport dates from 1711.9

THE ERA OF BOXING GLOVES[EDIT] THE QUEENSBERRY RULES

• In 1867 the center opened in London Lillie Bridge Grounds sports. There, on the initiative of John Graham Chambers, established his headquarters the Amateur Athletic Club, an organization that decided that year to organize the first amateur boxing championships history, establishing another first three categories according to the weight of the boxers: lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight. The tournament was sponsored by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and used a set of twelve rules that Chambers had written two years earlier, and that would be published at that time by the name of "Queensberry rules for the sport of boxing," or as universally known, Queensberry Rules.

DISSEMINATION BOXING WORLD,

• , from the late nineteenth century boxing began to spread in non-whites, especially in those where there was British or American influence, such as Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, South Africa and in Spain. In Argentina, the first boxing championship was held in December 1899, devoting champion Jorge Newbery, a pioneer of the sport in that country.20 In 1903 he organized the French Federation of Clubs of Boxeo.21 In Spain, Barcelona hosted some boxing-rooms more willful than scientific-since 1876. In 1903 was created in Barcelona the Sportsmen's Club, in which the French professor Vidal gave boxing exhibitions, and in 1908 his nephew, Jean Vidal, opened a boxing gym in the Gym Vila. At that time also practiced at small scale, in the Basque Country or in Spanish Gymnastic Society of Madrid.22

It has traditionally been considered an exclusively male sport, legally and culturally affected by gender bias. The recognition of the rights of women and progress in the fight against discrimination, have allowed in recent decades recorded a boom in female boxing, so 20112 Pan American Games and the Summer Olympic Games of 2012 included female boxing in several categories.