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Early History of Boxing

Fist fighting is depicted in Sumerian relief carvings in the 3rd millennium BC, Both depictions show bare-fisted contests..In 1927 Dr. E. A. Speiser, an archaeologist, discovered a stone tablet in Baghdad, Iraq depicting two men getting ready for a prize fight. The tablet is believed to be 7,000 years old. Fist fighting or boxing is also described in several ancient Indian texts such as the Vedas, the ramayana, and the mahabarata. Evidence of boxing as a sport was found in excavations done in Mohenjadaro and Harappa. The earliest evidence for fist fighting with a kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete, (c. 1500-900 BC) and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains (c. 2000-1000 BC).