Henry Armstrong
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Henry Jackson Jr. was an American professional boxer and a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong.
Henry Armstrong in 1937
Armstrong (right) demonstrating some boxing techniques to a US Army member during an exhibition tour in 1943.
Boxing
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Boxing is a combat sport and a martial art in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.
Two Royal Navy men boxing for charity (1945). The modern sport was codified in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
A painting of Minoan youths boxing, from an Akrotiri fresco circa 1650 BC. This is the earliest documented use of boxing gloves.
A boxing scene depicted on a Panathenaic amphora from Ancient Greece, circa 336 BC, British Museum
A boxer and a rooster in a Roman mosaic of first century AD at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples