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From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: December 2, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

History has recorded neither the world's first spilt pint nor the first fist fight, shortly afterwards. But as a sport rather than a brawl, evidence suggests that fist-fighting spread from what is now Ethiopia to Egypt and the Mediterranean about 6,000 years ago; the ancient Olympic Games in Greece featured boxing matches in which the pugilists had their hands bound with leather straps.

Amateur boxing was reintroduced to the modern Olympics in 1904. As Audley Harrison has discovered, there is a big leap from the four two- minute rounds that Olympic amateurs box to the professionals' three- ...

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