Amateurs Only!

When you think of amateurs, you think of noobs but not these guys. Amatuer boxing is practiced at collegiate level, at olympic games, and etc. Of course, fighters wear head protection (their amateurs) but they gain points by how good and clean their punches are and not the power to knock a guy down. The gloves have a strip across the knuckle so the judges know if it was a good punch. Refs will stop the fight is someone is seriously injured. Amateur boxing became a sport in the 19th century. The age limit for amateur boxing is 11 years old to compete. On their 17th birthday they become a senior and after 34 years old they cannot box. I think this would be fun to box and learn like these kids at the age of eleven. Amateurs aren't so bad after all.

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Ancient Greek Boxing

Ancient Greek boxing goes way back! To the eight century to be exact. It was practiced in Greek-city states. Until around 500 b.c. fighters used Ox hides to wrap around there hands numerous times. Soon after they were introduced to a more padded, rigid, and rough substance. They only had a few rules which were No wrestling, Any blow except eye gouging, there was no ring or rounds or time limits, the fight was over when someone gave up or was dead, no weight classes, opponents were selected by chance, judges enforced the rules by beating the fighters with a bat. If you got hit in the nose with their gloves is was almost gauranteed it would break and they had no tool to heal it. They wore no clothes except gloves. A rumor has it that a heroic ruler, Theseus, invented a form of boxing where men sat face to face and beat each other with spiked gloves until someone was killed.
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Boxing ring

A boxing ring is the space in which a boxing match occurs. A modern ring that is set on a raised platform is a square with a post in each corner. There are four padded rows of rope which are attached with a turnbuckle. Its diffferent from wrestling whereas the ropes in a boxing ring are generally secured at the midway point. The ring itself has around 1 inch of padding covered by stretched canvas. The ropes are around 1 inch in diameter and are on posts of 5 feet at height and are spaced at 18, 30, 42, and 54 inches. The ring name was atavism. The fighters inside of it so they people can watch them. If there were walls instead of ropes, people wouldn't be able to see them. Theres ropes so fighters can bounce back from a fight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_ring

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George Foreman's Career.

George Foreman, nicknamed Big George, (born January 10, 1949) is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, Ordained Baptist minister, author and successfull entrepreneur. Foreman had an amateur record of 22-4, losing twice to Clay Hodges (also defeated by Max Briggs in his first ever fight). Foreman turned professional in 1969 with a three-round knockout of Donald Wahlheim in New York. In 1972, his string of wins continued with a series of five consecutive bouts in which he defeated each opponent within three rounds. Still undefeated, and with an impressive knockout record, Foreman was set to challenge undefeated and undisputed world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier. Frazier was knocked down six times by Foreman within two rounds, with the three knockdowns rule being waived for this bout. After the second knockdown, Frazier's balance and mobility were impaired to the extent that he was unable to evade Foreman's combinations. Frazier managed to get to his feet for all six knockdowns, but referee Arthur Mercante eventually called an end to the one-sided bout. Nineteen seventy-seven would prove to be a life changing year for Foreman. He retires ):

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Jimmy Ellis' Career.

James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis (born February 24, 1940) is a retired boxer from Lousville, Kentucky. He fought in what some consider to be the greatest heavyweight era of all-time. and Ellis held the WBA World Heavyweight Championship from 1968 to 1970.

Ellis turned professional in 1961. Early in his pro career, he was trained and managed by Bud Bruner. With Bruner, he compiled a record of 15-5 (6 KOs) and was ranked #10 in the world as a middleweight. His five losses were decisions to top middleweight contenders Holly Mims (whom he defeated in a rematch), Henry Hank, Rubin Carter, Don Fullimer, and George Rubin.

By 1966, Ellis was fighting as a heavyweight. When Ali was stripped of the world title for refusing to enter the military, the WBA staged an eight-man tournament that featured most of the top heavyweight contenders. Ellis, with eight consecutive wins, was invited to be in the tournament.

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Rocky Mercianos Life

Ask any Italian who the greatest boxer ever was, and you will never hear the names Ali, Louis or Sugar. Nope. You will only hear the name Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated. To his credit, Rocky Marciano did make a habit of beating up his opponents in the ring. Add the fact that his most notable victory was over his childhood idle, Joe Louis, whom he sent back into retirement. But Joe was well past his prime. He also beat Archie Moore, but he also was already in his early forties. So to the entire nation of Italy and her children I say to you, Rocky Marciano could not beat any of the champions in my Top T.E.N.  Rocky Merciano won 49 and lost 0. He had a total of 43 B-E-A-U-tiful comments. He is great.

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Joe Fraziers Life.

Joseph William (Joe Frazier), known as Smokin' Joe, (born January 12, 1944), is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981. After Frazier won the USA's only 1964 Olympic boxing gold medal, his trainer Yancey "Yank" Durham helped put together Cloverlay, a group of local businessmen who invested in Frazier's professional career and allowed him to train full-time. Durham was Frazier's chief trainer and manager until Durham's death in August 1973.

While Ali's characteristic taunts of his opponent began typically enough, after regaining his title, his taunts of Smokin' Joe eventually turned mean-spirited and racist. Joe was painted by Ali as the white man's hope and as an "Uncle Tom" interjecting an element of racism into an already contentious and controversial series of great bouts. (The early controversy was whether Ali should be allowed to fight at all.)

Joe Frazier petitioned President Nixon to have Ali's right to box reinstated setting up the whole series of matches. Frazier boycotted the 1967 WBA heavyweight elimination tournament to find a successor to Muhammad Ali, when the champion was stripped of the title.

On February 16, 1970, Frazier became the undisputed world champion when he defeated WBA champion Jimmy Ellis at Madison Square Garden by a fifth-round knock-out. Ellis had beaten Jerry Quarry in the final bout of a WBA elimination tournament for Ali's vacated belt, but Frazier had declined to participate.
In his first title defense, Frazier travelled to Detroit to fight world light-heavyweight champion Bob Foster, who had set a record for the number of defenses in the light-heavyweight division.

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