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Prize fighting, or boxing, is a sport that has roots that go all the way back to the early Greek civilization. Though, for most people today, when you think of a boxing match you immediately conger up images of one heavyweight boxer taking on another.
Numerous movies, books and plays find their interesting settings revolving around a key character brought to life in the person of a heavyweight boxer. One who is out to beat the odds and prove himself to others, and often to himself as well, in the unfolding of the story.
Some of those fictional stories of a heavyweight boxer who overcomes the odds to live his dream can be compelling. Although, many of the true-to-life stories behind the real professional boxers are more than interesting enough to keep the fans in their corner and rooting for them.
Heavyweight is a designation for a weight class in both professional and amateur levels of boxing. Of the 17 different weight classes in this sport, it is the class for the largest of boxers and is probably the most widely known category of classes.
Almost all of the biggest, most promoted, most exciting and highest-money grossing boxing matches have been those that pit one undefeated heavyweight boxer against another.
These athletes usually have a similar, clean statistical record of wins. There is no doubt that professional boxing, especially at the heavyweight level is a huge and profitable industry.
A fighter who weighs-in at over 200 pounds, or 90.72 kilograms is considered to be a heavyweight boxer. This standing is consistent with all of the main professional organizations of this sport worldwide, including: the International Boxing Federation (IBF), the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Council (WBC), the International Boxing Organization (IBO)78 and the World Boxing Organization (WBO).
For a long time in the sport history, this boxing division had no maximum limit for weight (unlike the other 16 boxing weight classes) and so this class has been rather vaguely defined historically, allowing for some under the 200 pound threshold to compete as heavyweights during the 19th century.
However, in 1920, the classification was more formally defined and a minimum weight was set at 175 pounds in order for a fighter to be considered a heavyweight boxer. This eventually evolved into the light heavyweight division. Today, any fighter who is over 200 pounds cannot contend in any class other than heavyweight.
It is essentially impossible to identify who the first heavyweight boxer champion was because of the fact that the sport history stretches back as far as recorded history goes.
It is certain that there must have been large fighters unfairly matched against lighter athletes, since the standards of classifications have only been in use within the last 150 years or so.
It is easier to identify champions of recent times. In fact, nowadays with the excess of media coverage, there is an abundant amount of news on this sport. Information that covers all of the current contenders and their matches in great detail, through boxing magazines, the internet and also on the cable sports channels.
And, there is no doubt that real fans of it simply cannot get enough of the behind-the-scenes stories concerning the contending boxing greats, that are in contention with one another to be the next great heavyweight boxer.
It is an interesting development to note that in recent years, the title of heavyweight boxer champion has actually become fractured among the different sanctioning organizations of this professional sport.
This has made it somewhat more difficult to determine a sole heavyweight boxer as the champion. Because of this there is another title of “Undisputed Champion”, which indicates that one heavyweight fighter has been able to defeat those other champions that have risen to the top of the various professional boxing organizations.
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Boxing, or pugilism, is a common combat sport in the West, possibly born from the Greek pankration arts, and was first accepted as an Olympic sport in 688 BCE. Opponents punch each other using a variety of combinations and victory is decided if a player knocks down his opponent for a set period of time (usually ten seconds). Other ways of achieving victory come with a clean knockout (KO), or with a technical knockout (TKO), in which the fight is stopped either by a referee or by a member of the player’s team.
Ancient roots
The ancient Greeks and Romans, the Minoans (1500 BCE), and the early Egyptians and Berbers (3000 BCE) all practiced forms of pugilism. It is thought that original matches had no weight categories or rounds, and fighters would typically wrap their hands in hardened leather to protect them from fractures, broken bones, and dislocated fingers.
Two distinct forms of boxing emerged during the days of the Roman Empire. The first, influenced by the Greeks, stressed boxing as a leisure activity; the latter, from the Roman gladiatorial matches, saw fighters fight viciously-sometimes to the death-in order to gain freedom, respect, and money.
Codifying the sport
Boxing has taken various forms in different countries through the years, but modern Western boxing grew out of London prize-ring fighting, a bare-knuckle form of the sport. The first record of these matches appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury and later, in 1719, the term “boxing” was used for the first time.
In 1743, a later champion, Jack Broughton, introduced a number of rules, and mufflers-the first form of boxing gloves-were also introduced around this time.
By 1838 the rules had tightened further and biting, head-butting, and hitting below the belt were deemed illegal. Later, in 1867, with the formation of the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, modern boxing, as we know it today, was born. Fights, it was stated, should take place in a 24 ft by 24 ft (7.3 m by 7.3 m) square ring, and rounds should last three minutes with a one-minute interval in between. If a fighter was knocked down, he would be allowed 10 seconds to get himself together back up, and reengage in the fight.
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