Professional boxing
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Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by the contract. Most professi
George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali in 1974, one of the most famous fights in the history of professional boxing.
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Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston after the "phantom punch"
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
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