BOXING

3000 - 2500 BC -- Boxing is already practiced: the show sculptures, carvings, etchings (some preserved in the British Museum in London).
688 BC -- Onomasto of Smyrna wins first Olympic boxing medal.
500 BC -- Epèo, the manufacturer of Trojan horse wins the Olympic Games organized in memory of Patroclo.
572 - 560 BC -- Tisandros of Nasso, a lefty, won 4 consecutive Olympics.
476 BC -- The fall of the West Roman Empire, boxing is banned. You practiced clandestinely throughout the Middle Ages.
1000 d.C. -- Boxing back in public arenas; encourages the practice even a saint, Ubaldo from Gubbio.
1157 - The Richard the Lionheart, imprisoned in Vienna, the challenge to his jailer fists and showing great technique overcomes pugilistica.
1500 - boxing flourishes in England, Venice became the cradle Italian: a gondolier Tito Alberto de Beef, goes to London to challenge the famous James Figg (lose).
1681 - De Protestant Mercury publishes the first chronicle pugilistica.
1719 - James Figg is proclaimed champion of the world (there are no categories): remain unbeaten until 1730.
1743 - Jack Broughton, the successor of Figg, writes Broughton Rules, the first written regulation of boxing
1810 - Mousley Harst, near Hampton, 10,000 people attend the match between Dutch and Sam Medley
1838 - while boxing is increasingly practiced in America, the British dictate new rules. The London Prize Ring Rules "prohibits finally blows below the belt, fixes her stop in the event of ko and the suspension for 30 seconds.
1890 - the architect Stanford White designed the Madison Square Garden in New York, the temple of boxing.
1892 - John Sullivan and James Corbett challenge in New Orleans is the 1 ° match of modern boxing. It fights under the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry: with rokavice, shooting 3 'with 1' interval, with 10 of counting in the event of atterramento
1904 - The United States Oliver Kirk won 2 gold medals at the Olympics St. Louis: at the time could fight in different categories.
1919 - Jack Dempsy "Manassa Mauler" inaugurates the gallery legend of the ring. After him, Tunney, Schmeling, Carnera, Joe Louis, Carpentier, Cerdan, Armstrong, Greg, Graziano, Marciano, Moore, Robinson ...
1921 - weight categories become 9: superpiuma are born, will follow the superleggeri (1922), superwelter (1962), minimosca (1975), supergallo (1976), the highest light (1979), supermosca (1980) , supermedi (1984), straw (1987). Among the amateurs until'51 categories are 8 (fly, rooster,
Feather, light, welter, medium, mediomassimi, maximum). In'51 the Aiba introduces welter jr. Superwelter and in'68 the minimosca in'84 the supermassimi.
1946 - London born Aiba.
1964 - Miami, Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston: it is the start of a new era and the birth of a new symbol-athlete.
1984 - Los Angeles Olympics becomes mandatory for all athletes using the helmet to protect the head. The professional boxers, however, still fighting to head discovery
1999 - June in Köping (Sweden) held the 1st European Cup women's boxing. There involved 54 athletes representing 14 nations. No Italy, where female boxing is prohibited.
2000 - boxing is in every corner of the world: there are 190 federations and more than 2 million students athletes.
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