Amateur boxing
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Amateur boxing is the variant of boxing practiced in clubs and associations around the world, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as at the collegiate level.
Boxers wear shorts and sleeveless singlets or jerseys; red outfit for the higher-ranked contender, blue for the lower-ranked.
Contemporary amateur boxing events are often broadcast live.
A child boxing exhibition in Union City, New Jersey
Amateur boxing matches typically ending with referee raising the winner's hand
Boxing
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Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two opponents throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. It is usually done wearing protect
Amateur boxing
…Amateur boxing is the variant of boxing practiced in clubs and associations around the world, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as at the collegiate…
Two Royal Navy men boxing for charity in July 1945
A woman's boxing match in Uruguay in 2008
An Akrotiri fresco painting of Minoan youths boxing, the earliest documented use of boxing gloves, c. 1650 BC
A boxing scene depicted on a Panathenaic amphora in Ancient Greece, c. 336 BC, now housed at the British Museum