
The unruly early days of boxing – Sports Bizarre
From Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
Published 2/19/2023

From Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
Published 2/19/2023
In the seventeenth century in England, the earliest form of modern boxing emerged, a wild free for all style of fighting that included eye gouging, hair pulling, spitting, head-butting, shin-kicking, stomping and kicking downed opponents. Out of this world emerged the first heavyweight champion,…