When most of us think about our favorite past times we think of football, baseball, basketball, and soccer. And all of these sports have rich and beautiful pasts with many heroes and stories to be heard. But there is one sport out there with a very deep and emotional past – Boxing.
Boxing actually dates all the way back to 688 B.C. when it was added to the Olympic games. It was there that it was first found in written history. But many believe it dates back much earlier than in 688 B.C. Many say hand to hand sports have been used for entertainment since the dawn of time.
Through out history the sport of boxing has changed in many ways in terms of rules and the way the sport has been portrayed. In the early years epically during the time before boxing gloves the sport was seen a very violent, unrefined, and dangerous.
But as the sport has become more popular and more states that were not allow to host shows began pushing legislation for allowance of the sport. Many states and sanctioning bodies implemented rules and regulations to make the sport more refined and safer for it constants.
The biggest change to boxing was boxing gloves. These gloves not only made the sport seem less violent it improved the way its practitioners trained. At the time many boxers trained bare fist which didnt allow them to spare for long. The gloves which some called mufflers allowed them to spare more often without doing lots of damage to each other.
There are many names out there that run deep in boxing history and have amazing stories to be told like Cleto Reyess story. Cleto Reyes was a young boxer from Mexico who loved boxing and dedicated his life to making one of the best known name brand gloves in the world – the Reyes Boxing Gloves.