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Who introduced boxing?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Believe it or not! But the first actual form of boxing began way back to the time of the gladiators. Gladiators from Rome before Christ that fought in the Coliseum against men and lions, etc. The first professional boxer was...Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons (May 26, 1863 - October 22, 1917)

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