when did boxing become about hittingbsnd not being hit?

Because it doesn't hurt if you don't get hit.

 

If you effectively neutralize everything your opponent does, you're not getting hit and therefore getting "the better of it", no?

 

:nono The sweet science is as old as science itself.


"... Eratosthenes says, as Favorinus quotes him, in the eighth book of his Universal History, that Pythagoras of Samos was the first man who ever practised boxing in a scientific manner, in the forty-eighth Olympiad...." -- Diogenes Laertius, historian, [url]

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Yea i've always wanted to bring this up when guys start bashing two men going to war.. and defend the "Boxing is about hitting n not getting hit" bull****...

Boxing started with two guys face to face toeing the line and may the baddest man win...

Somewhere along the line some *** decided he didn't want to be hit and started running...

 

Boxers never stood on a line, ignored defense, and slugged. Never.

Mendoza used head movement, "running", leaning forward to protect his body, and a high guard with raised elbows to deflect punches. That was in the 1790s. It's the earliest boxing manual that survives.

Broughton certainly used defense and footwork when the sport first became popular in the 1700s. Probably fencing footwork, but still footwork. Even Figg, who started the sport in the early 18th century, knew how to defend himself from punches. He definitely knew how to clinch, since he was a pretty good wrestler.

 

the word you're looking for is machismo.

do you possess evidence of how boxing started?

 

Okay, then. Professional boxers never fought with "machismo", if you define "machismo" as standing still and letting the other man hit you repeatedly.

Yes. The sport of boxing as we know it dates back to Figg in the 1700s. It's pretty well documented.

 

I dont mind the "hit and not get hit" approach, but some people think that is the same as "don't hit, and not get hit".

The primary goal in fighting is to inflict damage, the secondary is to avoid it, if you can do both, great. When you are throwing less than 20 punches per round and constantly running away, then you are playing tag.

 

i was responding to opening post.