which country did boxing start in?

Question

I was wondering which country boxing started in I thought it was somewhere in Western Europe?

Answer 1

I've read about the boxers of Greece and alot of them were very good, they would wrap leather (himantes) over their knuckles as gloves. Theagenes is the greatest of all boxers in history, after his death he was worshiped as a demigod of fertility. 1300 fights in 22 years without losing.


Here follows the career record of Theagenes, according to the inscription at the shrine of Thasos at Delphi:

Olympic Games: 2 victories (1 boxing, 1 pankration)
Pythian Games: 3 boxing
Isthmian Games: 9 boxing, 1 pankration
Nemean Games: 9 boxing
1300 total victories
Unbeaten at boxing for 22 years


Archaeological evidence suggests boxing existed in North Africa as early as 4000 BC and had also developed in the Mediterranean by 1500 BC.

Answer 2

Archaelogical evidence can only get you so far.... But in my opinion, boxing or should i say fist-fighting might have started before Humans (homo sapiens) existed. It is our nature to survive by flight or fight. When creatures like our hominid ancestors fight, fists were the main weapon. Fist fights between enemy creatures are quite common a long time ago.

Answer 3

western boxing started in the second olympiad by the romans and they used it in the colisium as a sport of death with leather and weighted boxing strapps and gloves with spikes and heavey metal studs so it was vicious and final caestus i believe was the name of the glove the fighters used

Answer 4

It originated started in Asia in Thailand