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Boxing History From Greece to The Olympics

The history of boxing can be traced back to 1500BC with Olympic boxing history dating back to the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. The 1904 games also included women's boxing for the first time. The origins boxing are unknown, but there is evidence of boxing dating back to 1500 BC on the Greek island of Crete, in fact Homer mentions in one of his many poems about a two-person fight in the Iliad around 1800 BC, and... (posted by John 4 years 213 days ago.)