… recounted as performances, the accounts detailing the blows given and received but also the talent, skill and courage displayed. 2 . ‘[…] but never let Britons be ashamed of science;– yes A SCIENCE that not only adds generosity to their … prize fighters would invite their contesters to a new boxing match through the newspapers. Newspaper discourses played an important part in shaping the nineteenth-century boxing culture as a manly yet respectable and artistic … of British sociability in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The debates around boxing bear witness to the role it played, along with other sports and leisure amusements, in the redefinition of the national character during the …