* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

There were twelve rules in all, and they specified that fights should be " a fair stand-up boxing match " in a 24-foot-square or similar ring.

Untitled ( c. 1960s ) shows a boxing match in great simplicity with an attempt to express the drama of the fight through few brushstrokes.

It was the venue for a boxing match between world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde and Joe Conn in 1918.

Sarnoff and Armstrong first met at a boxing match involving Jack Dempsey in 1920.

* 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.

* 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.

When interviewed by Bryant Gumbel before the final boxing match, Mr T. said, " I just feel sorry for the guy who I have to box.

This boxing stunt ultimately culminated in another boxing match against Roddy Piper at WrestleMania 2.

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* 1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

* 1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.

* 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

Theocritus, in his narration of the ( boxing ) match between Polydeukēs and Amykos, noted that the two opponents struggled a lot, vying to see who would get the sun's rays on his back.

In the DS9 episode " Q-Less ", Q at one point goads Commander Benjamin Sisko into a bare-knuckle boxing match, all the while belittling and insulting him.

* 1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the " Long Count " boxing match to Gene Tunney.

Casseux's pupil Charles Lecour was exposed to the English art of boxing when he witnessed an English boxing match in France between English pugilist Owen Swift and Jack Adams in 1838.

* Two cats in a boxing match

* October 29 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay ( later Muhammad Ali ) wins his first professional boxing match.

* April 27 – Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without losing a professional boxing match.

Today, women compete professionally and as amateurs in virtually every major sport, though the level of participation typically decreases when it comes to the more violent contact sports ; few schools have women's programs in American football, boxing or wrestling.

Sports programming is also featured on some premium services, in particular HBO and Showtime in the U. S. are both notable for their carriage of boxing events, while Showtime and Epix also carry mixed martial arts events ; specialty pay sports channels such as Setanta Sports and Fox Soccer Plus exist and are typically sold at a higher expense than traditional premium services.

Strauss was a boxing journeyman, title given to fighters who typically fight anyone and anywhere, often on short notice.

Showtime is an American premium cable television service featuring programming that consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures, along with original series, made-for-cable movies, and occasional boxing and mixed martial arts matches.

A match consists of five three-minute rounds and takes place in a 6. 1 meter square boxing ring.

Standard attire consists of shorts, boxing gloves, armbands and cotton coverlets on the feet.

In events contested by a single-elimination tournament ( most notably boxing ), third place might not be determined and both semifinal losers receive bronze medals.

He stated that he had unfinished business in the boxing ring and was determined to regain recognition as a world champion.

The show was originally scored on a 10-point scale system like a boxing match, with the loser of the round scoring 9 in most cases ( 8 or less if Wolff determined the argument to be weak enough to warrant it ).

On November 19, 1993 Trevino determined to build her fight record by winning a kickboxing bout against Lapin Padilla for the United States IKBA International Kickboxing Association title. In her second boxing bout, against the stunt double debutante Bridgett Riley, with a decision win over Trevino in Laughlin, Nevada on April 8, 1994.

Amateur boxing has a point scoring system that measures the number of clean blows landed rather than physical damage.

After protests by heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis ( then stationed at Fort Riley ) and the help of Truman Gibson ( then an assistant civilian aide to the Secretary of War ), Robinson also openly criticized segregated hotels and restaurants that served the Dodger organization ; a number of these establishments integrated as a result, including the five-star Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.

* Multiple Knockdowns: The fighter is knocked down a certain number of times during a single round ( common rule in most boxing and kickboxing contests ).

Jones, a boxing fan, has performed national anthems before a number of boxing matches.

He was honored a number of times over the years by the boxing community.

Following his retirement from boxing, Carpentier spent a number of years a vaudeville song-and-dance man, mostly in England and the US.

As there are a number of professional boxing organizations, the standards of construction vary.

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades.

He also ranks as number 14 in boxing history, also recognized by Ring Magazine, among boxers with most wins in a row, totalling 88 wins in a row.

The law preventing females from participating in the sport of boxing in Ireland has since been revoked and there is an increasing number of females becoming involved with the sport thanks to its Olympic acceptance and the consistent international success of Katie Taylor.

He was widely reported to have suffered a broken jaw, broken ribs, several broken teeth and a number of deep fractures to his facial bones, an unprecedented level of damage in boxing which aroused suspicion that Dempsey had cheated.

Before starting his professional life in entertainment, he explored a number of possible careers, such as medicine and professional boxing, before joining the entertainment world as a dancer.

Chacon would go on to win five in a row in 1982, including a rematch victory over Arturo Leon, which kept him as the number one challenger, but then a dramatic development outside the ring would change his life forever: Chacon's wife, Valerie Chacon, flew to Hawaii on February of that year, hoping to convince him to leave boxing and move there if she found them good jobs.

Since boxing is now lawful almost everywhere in the world, the number of fights called no-contest has decreased dramatically since the beginnings of the 20th century.

Stradivarius ", and with Larry in tow — playing " Pop Goes the Weasel " at every boxing match, Curly becomes the number one contender for the heavyweight championship.

His two fights with Argüello are considered by many to be boxing classics, Argüello-Escalera I making The Ring magazine's list of 100 greatest fights of all time at number 31, and Argüello-Escalera II making it at number 68.

He participated in a number of movies and television series, before deciding to launch a boxing comeback at the age of 48, in 1997.

A great number of major sports originated in the United Kingdom, including association football, golf, tennis, boxing, rugby league, rugby union, cricket, field hockey, snooker, billiards, squash, curling and badminton, all of which are popular in Britain.

" After he had beaten a number of middleweight contenders such as Florentuno Fernandez, Holley Mims, Gomeo Brennan, and George Benton, the boxing world took notice.

Hughes has many specialities, including students in professional disciplines such as medicine, law, business, and postgraduate studies in education, as well as a disproportionately high number of Cambridge ' Blues ' - sportsmen and women who have excelled in fields including rugby, rowing, boxing, cricket, swimming, chess and others.

During his remarks at the pre-game retirement ceremony, Geoffrion's son Bob recounted how his parents had once gone to a boxing match at the Montreal Forum and that Geoffrion had told his wife Marlene that his own number would someday hang from the rafters beside that of her father's, Howie Morenz.

What proved to be one of the most controversial fights in boxing history ( because few were able to see the knockout punch, the fight therefore became known as the Phantom Punch Fight ) was also the world title fight that attracted the smallest number of live spectators in boxing history, fought in Lewiston, before a crowd of 2, 434 people.