Amateur boxing shows

Description:History[ edit ] Amateur boxing emerged as a sport during the mid-to-late 19th century, partly as a result of the moral controversies surrounding professional prize-fighting. Originally lampooned as an effort by upper and middle-class gentlemen to co-opt a traditionally working class sport, the safer, "scientific" style of boxing found favor in schools, universities and in the armed forces, although the champions still usually came from among the urban poor. The Queensberry Amateur Championships continued from to , and so, unlike their professional counterparts, amateur boxers did not deviate from using gloves once the Queensberry Rules had been published.

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