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Governing Contests for Endurance (1865)
Patron -- John Sholto Douglas (1858-1900)
Written by John Graham Chambers

As agreed by several Gentlemen at Broughton’s Ampitheatre, Tottenham Court Road, London , England.August 16, 1743.

While fighting of various kinds was common on the American frontier, boxing was uncommon. The first two American boxers, both blacks, made their names in England.

Fighting with fists was a sport about 6,000 years ago in what is now known as Ethiopia, from there it spread to ancient Egypt and eventually throughout the Mediterranean area. Ancient Crete also had a boxing-like sport, which probably developed independently, about 1,500 B.C.

History
The town of Canastota, New York, in 1982 decided to honor two local boys who made good as boxers: Carmen Basilio, world middleweight and welterweight champion in the 1950s, and Basilio's nephew, Billy Backus, who became world welterweight titlist in 1970.

The name "Golden Gloves" was born in 1923 when a Chicago sports editor, Arch Ward, originated an amateur boxing tournament designed to help youth and promote amateur competition.

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