Olympic Boxing: A Brutal Sport Turned Olympic Back in the Stone Age, thousands and thousands of years ago, the people didn’t have much to do for entertainment so they invented a life or death sport which we know today as, boxing. There is a lot of history on top of boxing. The sport started thousands of years ago, it grew and grew in popularity until it reached its peak in the 1930’s. Boxing was …showed first 75 words of 588 total…

…showed last 75 words of 588 total…of history is George Forman, who has been champion 3 times. A recent boxer who has been disqualified from the Olympics is Evander Holyfield. Some of the newer, younger boxers from this years Olympics are Michael Bennett, Felix Savon , Jose Navarro, Hicham Mesbahi, and David Jackson (Olympics.com:boxing). Boxing, from which in the Stone Age was one of the most brutal sports around, today its popularity continues to grow more and more every single year.