Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… presented it as a noble art and a science fit to teach young men discipline and to make them into good soldiers. 2 Print culture and pugilism in the late 1780s. If the codification of boxing secured its status, its popularity was enhanced by … match through the newspapers. Newspaper discourses played an important part in shaping the nineteenth-century boxing culture as a manly yet respectable and artistic endeavour. References to antique culture would seep their way in the description of the sport to morally legitimize it. However violent the contest …
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