when boxing sport started and by whom?
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It is said it was one of the games played amongst the Greek Gods of Olympus It was started by the ancient greek back in 688 bc as an Olympic sport. Homer reffered to t in the Illiad.
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Boxing used to take place in actual round rings, but it's hard to put ropes up around a round ring.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n"The name ring is an atavism from when contests were fought in a roughly drawn circle on the ground, the name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules (1743) specifying a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838, the ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes."
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Boxing.  So why is this under baseball?
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no, boxing is a good sport to watch or do, even it seems it is a little wild. \n\nthe most beautiful thing about boxing is after the match, two opponents congratulate each other, after they had punched each other for all the match. in which sport do you see this?\n\nın soccer or basketball or any other court sports, most of the time, the loser leaves the pitch but in most of the fighting sports, they act better to each other after the match.
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A boxer knows a lot about boxing
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Muhammed Ali, "the Greatest" fighter of all time. He actually brought tremendous interest back into boxing, something that's seriously lacking today.\n\nYou might have loved him or hated him, but you couldn't ignore him...
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This site has instructions.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/boxing/newsid_3526000/3526378.stm\n\nJ.
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Il s'agit de la World Boxing Association.
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The roots of the sport are from rugby and soccer (european football).  The form of the game played in the 1870's was a contact sport played with mostly soccer rules.
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http://www.rossboxing.com/\n\nThis site offers tips and advice on boxing.
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Why? Because, you huge wuss, the only way a real man wins a boxing match is to beat up the other guy until he can't stand up anymore. For a very long time, this was literally true. Prize fighting was simply hitting, biting, gouging, anything short of the use of weapons until the other guy gave up. The first rules were pub rules, and were put in place to lower the chances of a boxer getting killed. For instance, when a boxer was knocked down, his\nopponent had to stop hitting him. Each knockdown was called a 'round.' However, this rule was soon exploited by boxers taking a knee as soon as they got tired, at their leisure, and ending the round so they could catch their breath. \n\n\nIn 1743, Jack Broughton, the English champion, drew up a set of rules that became at least moderately accepted. Chief among these was the addition of "two Umpires, who shall absolutely decide all Disputes that may arise about the Battle." These disputes were not about who won or lost, which was still determined only by giving up, or a boxer not being able to return to the fight within 30 seconds of being knocked down, but about the new foul calls Broughton introduced, namely whether a boxer had "hit his Adversary when he is down or seize him by the ham, the breeches, or any part below the waist." You know, protect life first, the family jewels second.\n\n\nThe Broughton Rules were superseded by the London Prize Rules in 1838, but really these were only modifications and standardizations, such as ring dimensions, giving a boxer a little more time to "come up to scratch" at the beginning of the round, and making it the responsibility of the judges to determine if a man was truly knocked down to end a round, or if he had just taken a knee to gain his wind, which was considered a foul. Still,\nknockouts and crying uncle were the only ways, short of being kicked out by the judges, of losing a fight.\n\n\nIn 1867, the London Amateur Athletic Club drew up a new set of rules, including mandating boxers to wear gloves, limiting rounds to three minutes, disallowing any contact besides punches (i.e., wrestling holds), and declaring a boxer who could not stand within ten seconds of a knockdown the loser of the contest. The LAAC got their rules endorsed by John Sholto Douglas, the Marquess of Queensberry. These rules eventually won out over the London Prize\nRules for a couple of reasons, among them the celebrity endorsement by the Marquess, the appeal to the audience of the increased fight pace, and the use of gloves, which reduced the risk that a boxer would die in the ring.\n\n\nThe boxing community was slow to adopt a uniform set of rules. In 1889, John L. Sullivan defended the heavyweight title by KOing Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds under bare-knuckle rules, Ike Weir fought Frank Murphy to an 80 round draw in a featherweight tiltle fight, and Chappie Moran won a 10-round decision over Tommy Kelly for the first bantamweight title. Sullivan, weary from his fight, declared that, from then on, "The Marquess of Queensbury Rules\nmust govern [my fights], as I want fighting, not foot-racing." In 1890, London's Pelican Club, the quasi-official governing body of the boxing world, adopted rules similar to Queensberry's, with the modification that a fight could last no longer than 20 rounds, for the first time codifying the emerging practice of having the judges score fights in which there was no obvious winner. Significantly, the Moran-Kelly fight was in Brooklyn, under New\nYork laws which prohibited fights longer than 10 rounds, necessitating judges to determine a winner if neither fighter was knocked out. Eventually, this came to be thought of as an acceptable arrangement by other governing bodies of boxing, again, because boxers were more likely to survive the fights. From 1911-1920, New York fights, and pretty much all American fights, were fought under the "Frawley Law," which not only restricted
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Characteristics of boxing include, competitiveness,  strategy, physical fitness and mostly courage.  People share and admire these skills, not only men. Many men have been involved in competive sports and can identify with the boxers' struggle to win even though  there is a huge  element of risk.
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Greco-Roman style wrestling is considered the world's oldest competitive sport and was the focus of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Freestyle wrestling became part of the Olympic Games in 1904.
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Modern football started in the UK.\nFirst time humans used a game based n shooting a ball with their feet was around 3000 b.c. in ancient egypt.Later the babylonians played a similar game, then much later a game closer to basket ball called "ring ball" appeared in the villages of the Maya civilization in central america. Almost all civlizations have used a spherical object in one sport or the other.
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Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA on January 17, 1942.\n\nst
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I haven't heard of a father and son boxing on the same card in the 70's. To the best of my knowledge, the first time a father and son boxed on the same card was when Hector Camacho Jr. made his pro debut on October 1, 1996, on the undercard of his father's (Hector Camacho Sr.) fight against Heath Todd.
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You need to find a boxing gym in your area. Try looking through the list on the link below. Any good trainer will show you the basics and get you started on a regular program. \n\nAnd watch Ricardo Lopez fights. He was a near perfect textbook fighter. :)