Boxing [ Games & Sports ]
… Image James Gillray, ‘Mendoza’, Met Museum, 66.683.9, 1788. Image Jack Broughton, Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. Image C.R. Ryley, 'Daniel Mendoza & Richard Humphreys', United … a disciplined violence useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Rules Sports The popularity of boxing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is attested by the great … the confusion of social classes, the middling-class mixing with the rank-and-file. Boxing as an art & a science The rules of prizefighting The growing popularity of boxing in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a global movement to …
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