Boxing is a combat sport that involves two opponents fighting using only their gloved fists within a ring according to precise rules. The earliest codification of boxing rules dates back to 1743, and the current rules were established in 1889 by the Marquess of Queensberry. While traditionally only practiced by men, female boxing has grown in recent decades and was included as an event in the 2012 Olympics.

2. BOXIN
• Boxing match.
• Boxing (English boxing), also sometimes called English or Irish
boxing boxing, and colloquially known as box, is a combat sport
in which two opponents fight using only their gloved fists,
beating his opponent from the waist above, within a ring
specially designed for this purpose, in brief fight sequences
called rounds or rounds and according to precise rules, which
regulates weight categories and duration of the meeting, among
others.

4. • The first codification of the rules governing boxing matches dating
back to 1743, while still current rules were established in 1889 by
the Marquis of Queensberry, who among other things introduced
the use of gloves.
• It has traditionally been considered an exclusively male
sport, legally and culturally affected by gender bias. The
recognition of the rights of women and progress in the fight against
discrimination, have allowed in recent decades recorded a boom in
female boxing, so 20112 Pan American Games and the Summer
Olympic Games of 2012 included female boxing in several
categorías.3

5. BACKGROUND

6. • Fighting with the fists as competition show is one of the oldest
sports in the world. The skills of boxing have been practiced since
ancient times in all continents except Americas.4
• Its origin is African and dates back to 6000. C., in the present-day
Ethiopia, from where it spread first to the ancient Egyptian
civilization, 5 and later Mesopotamian civilizations, where boxers
are bas-reliefs dating from 5500. C.4 In Egypt became developed
Minoan civilization in Crete, while the spread to Mesopotamia
India.4
• The boxers Egyptians used a type of glove that covered her fist
until codo.4 The custom of wearing gloves is also in Crete and
then in ancient Greece, where there are already references to
boxing in the Iliad of Homer in the eighth century . C.

7. • Boxeador delQuirinal. Escultura en bronce
del período helenístico (siglo I a. C.). Nótese los
vendajes en la mano izquierda del "boxeador de
Terme". (Museo de Roma).

8. ORIGINS OF ENGLISH BOXING
Boxing Match "bare-knuckle" at the beginning of the
eighteenth century in England.
• The word "boxing" and was used in England in the
sixteenth century to refer to a brawl puños.9 But the
first record of a boxing as sports tournament between
two opponents, is 1681.10 while the first use of the
word "boxing" to refer to the sport dates from 1711.9

9. THE ERA OF BOXING GLOVES
[EDIT] THE QUEENSBERRY RULES
• In 1867 the center opened in London Lillie Bridge Grounds sports. There, on the initiative
of John Graham Chambers, established his headquarters the Amateur Athletic Club, an
organization that decided that year to organize the first amateur boxing championships
history, establishing another first three categories according to the weight of the boxers:
lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight. The tournament was sponsored by John
Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and used a set of twelve rules that Chambers
had written two years earlier, and that would be published at that time by the name of
"Queensberry rules for the sport of boxing," or as universally known, Queensberry Rules.

11. DISSEMINATION BOXING WORLD,
• , from the late nineteenth century boxing began to spread in non-
whites, especially in those where there was British or American
influence, such as Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto
Rico, the Philippines, South Africa and in Spain. In Argentina, the first boxing
championship was held in December 1899, devoting champion Jorge
Newbery, a pioneer of the sport in that country.20 In 1903 he organized the
French Federation of Clubs of Boxeo.21 In Spain, Barcelona hosted some
boxing-rooms more willful than scientific-since 1876. In 1903 was created in
Barcelona the Sportsmen's Club, in which the French professor Vidal gave
boxing exhibitions, and in 1908 his nephew, Jean Vidal, opened a boxing
gym in the Gym Vila. At that time also practiced at small scale, in the Basque
Country or in Spanish Gymnastic Society of Madrid.22

12. It has traditionally been considered an exclusively male sport, legally
and culturally affected by gender bias. The recognition of the rights of
women and progress in the fight against discrimination, have allowed
in recent decades recorded a boom in female boxing, so 20112 Pan
American Games and the Summer Olympic Games of 2012 included
female boxing in several categories.