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 Boxing is one of the oldest sports with hard evidences that date back from ancient times. The fist-fightings took place in the Ancient Egypt, in Ancient Greek when become Olympic sport for the first time, and during the Roman Empire period.
The pugilism kept its popularity all this time and even reached new heights of popularity in the modern era and especially since the major matches started to be broadcasted live on television. In the last century several boxers standout and became veritable boxing legends.
Among the legendary all time boxers we have Joe Luis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis. All these boxers have literally written the history of boxing and this sport would have not been the same without them. Although it seems that the golden age of boxing is over, remarkable pugilists still write the history of boxing. In the last decade one of the notable boxers is Manny Pacquiao, who is the only boxer that won world boxing titles in eight different categories. Pacquiao followed the steps of Oscar De La Hoya who won major world titles in six categories between 1994 and 2004 and Héctor Camacho who won seven world titles in different categories. The increased popularity of boxing attracted important sponsors that brought more money into this industry. The major boxing matches are broadcasted live to an audience of millions and the number of bets made before title confrontations is staggering. Undoubtedly boxing is one of the sports that always will have a large number of fans. The fist-fighting sport will be part of the history as it always did starting from ancient times. The times change but this sport remained unchanged in the last century and we’ll definitely will remain this way for a long time. |
