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The Boxing or Box, as it is also popularly called, is a sport of contact in which two individuals face each other who will fight only with their fists sheathed in special gloves with which they will hit each other and whose main condition will be to hit the opponent above the waist within a ring that is specially designed for this purpose.

East olympic sport consists of short fighting sequences called rounds or rounds in which boxers fight each other, but always following the rigorous mandate imposed by regulation which will be applied by the referee who closely follows each of the movements and blows within the ring with the wrestlers.

Boxing is a really very old practiceIts origins date back to Africa in the 6,000th century BC, while the first norms date back to the mid-18th century.

Traditionally, as a consequence of violence that per se unfolds and implies, boxing has been a practice especially practiced by men and that therefore has had a significant quota of prejudices from

gender when women asked for their place in him, however, with the to run of the times and the different advances and achievements made by women, boxing professional It has given a place to this and nowadays it is common and recurrent the practice at a competitive level on the part of women, although of course, in the matter of announcement men's boxing is still several rounds ahead of him.

As mentioned above, the fight is divided into rounds and rounds, the number of which is determined by the type of event in question. For example, the world and continental championships are held in 12 rounds, which involve obtaining a national title at 10 and those without a title at stake, according to what is agreed, 4, 6, 8 or 10.

The knockout blow is one that will knock out one of the opponents and therefore he is the one who will decide the end of a fight and the winner, meanwhile, when the assaults agreed ends without knockout, the jury by vote will decide who is the winner of the fight in question.

Among the prohibited blows within a fight are the following: hitting the back of the neck or behind the head when opponent, kicking the opponent, tripping them, hitting below the other's belt level, provoking head butts intentional.

In addition to gloves, accessories of a boxer are: mouth guard, gown and support belt.

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