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Informal boxing match between Nationwide champion Dritov Motilige and a random homeless person.

Boxing is a competitive combat sport, in which participants take turns attempting to incapacitate their opponent by shoving a person sized box over their head. The sport dates back to 1837 when the creator of boxes, Cornelius Fergus Condron Darragh Greene-Boxherty, was found to have been murdered in his lab by being shoved head first into a box lined with razor blades. For some reason the gruesome acts surrounding his death became popular as a pub-sport^[1], minus the blades, and over time caught on as a normal sport. Later in 1919, the sport was officially recognized as an Olympic sport.

↑ A Pub-sport is a type of sport only performed in pubs and clubs. They were often sized in a way that they could be played around tables.

[1] A Pub-sport is a type of sport only performed in pubs and clubs. They were often sized in a way that they could be played around tables.

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	[[File:Boxing.png.png\|thumb\|Informal boxing match between Nationwide champion [[Dritov Motilige]] and a random homeless person.]]		[[File:Boxing.png.png\|thumb\|Informal boxing match between Nationwide champion [[Dritov Motilige]] and a random homeless person.]]
	Boxing is a competitive combat [[Sports\|sport]], in which participants take turns attempting to incapacitate their opponent by shoving a person sized box over their head. The sport dates back to ~~1887~~ when the creator of boxes, [[Cornelius Greene-Boxherty\|Cornelius Fergus Condron Darragh Greene-Boxherty]], was found to have been murdered in his lab by being shoved head first into a box lined with razor blades. For some reason the gruesome acts surrounding his death became popular as a pub-sport<ref>A Pub-sport is a type of sport only performed in pubs and clubs. They were often sized in a way that they could be played around tables.</ref>, minus the blades, and over time caught on as a normal sport. Later in 1919, the sport was officially recognized as an [[Olympics\|Olympic]] sport.		Boxing is a competitive combat [[Sports\|sport]], in which participants take turns attempting to incapacitate their opponent by shoving a person sized box over their head. The sport dates back to 1837 when the creator of boxes, [[Cornelius Greene-Boxherty\|Cornelius Fergus Condron Darragh Greene-Boxherty]], was found to have been murdered in his lab by being shoved head first into a box lined with razor blades. For some reason the gruesome acts surrounding his death became popular as a pub-sport<ref>A Pub-sport is a type of sport only performed in pubs and clubs. They were often sized in a way that they could be played around tables.</ref>, minus the blades, and over time caught on as a normal sport. Later in 1919, the sport was officially recognized as an [[Olympics\|Olympic]] sport.