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What comic actors great great grandfather was a bare fist boxing champion of the late 1700s?
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Who is the inventor of boxing?
Boxing may have been started by the Greeks as one of the original games for the Olympics. It was also big in England in the 1700s.
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Why is boxing known as sweet science?
The phrase "the sweet science of boxing" was first used by a gentleman called Pierce Egan who wrote a collection of articles regarding boxing. He wrote the articles in the publication, Boxiana, or Sketches of Modern Pugilism in 1824. "The phrase "the sweet science of boxing" was popularized by Liebling. He got it from Pierce Egan's Boxiana, collections of articles about boxing in England in the 1700s. Egan called boxing "The Sweet Science of Bruising." http://www.greatbasinweb.com/gb2-2/sweetstories.htm "Pierce Egan (1772-1849), early journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. He wrote first about boxing in his serial publication, Boxiana, or Sketches of Modern Pugilism (1824), in which he originated the description of boxing as "the sweet science" http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Pierce_Egan
Who was the creator of boxing?
The oldest records of boxing come from Sumerian pictures that date to 3,000 B.C. and continued in ancient cultures for over 1,000 years. After disappearing for a time, modern boxing reappeared in England in the 1700s.
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