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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Boxing

Boxing, nicknamed the "sweet science" and also called pugilism or prizefighting, is a sport where two participants of similar weight attack each other with their fists in a series of two to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Amateur and Professional divisions, the combatants (called boxers or fighters) avoid their opponent's punches whilst trying to land punches of their own. Points are awarded for clean, solid blows to the legal area on the front of the opponent's body above the waistline, with hits to the ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Box Boxes are highly variable receptacles. When no shape is described, a typical cuboid box may be expected. Nevertheless, a box may have a horizontal cross-section that is square, elongated, round or oval; sloped or domed top surfaces, or non-vertical sides. A box normally may be opened by raising, sliding or removing the lid, which may be hinged and/or fastened by a catch, hasp, or lock. Whatever its shape or purpose or the material of which it is fashioned, it is the direct descendant of the chest, one of the most ancient articles of d ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia II - Box - Shoe box

A shoebox is, exactly as its name implies, a cardboard box which holds a pair of shoes. It is commonly acquired when one purchases a pair of shoes. Shoeboxes have long been cherished for their versatility and are commonly used for many tasks around the house, such as holding trading cards, photos, and just about anything else. The most brilliant and wonderful fanfiction ever created. ...

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Boxing in the 1980s - A list of fights by year

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Boxing in the 1930s

Boxing in the 1930s was affected by one of the biggest economic struggles in the history of the United States: The depression era. Because of the suffering American economy, many boxers were offered lower purses, and they would not fight for low amounts of money. When the decade began, the world Heavyweight title had been vacant for three years. There was a world Middleweight champion, Mickey Walker, but he was more interested in pursuing fights with the best Heavyweight contenders, instead of fa ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Black box

Black box is technical jargon for a device or system or object when it is viewed primarily in terms of its input and output characteristics. Almost anything might occasionally be referred to as a black box, e.g., a transistor, the Internet. Some other common uses are: In electronics, a sealed piece of replaceable equipment—see line-replaceable unit. In computer programming and software engineering, black box testing is used to check that the output of a program is as expected given certain inputs. ...

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Batter's box

In baseball, softball, and similar sports and games, the batter's box is the place where the batter stands when ready to receive a pitch from the pitcher. It is usually drawn in chalk on the dirt surrounding home plate. In fact, there are two batter's boxes, one for left-handed batters and one for right-handed batters, although rules-wise they serve the same purpose. A batter may only occupy one batters box at a time. The pitcher may not throw his pitch while any part of the batter's body is touching the ground outside o ...

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Box junction

A box junction is a traffic control measure designed to prevent gridlock at busy road junctions. The surface of the junction is marked with a criss-cross grid of diagonal painted lines (or rather only two lines crossing each other in the box junction, as it is used widely in Singapore) and vehicles may not enter the area so marked unless their exit from the junction is clear (or, if turning, to await a gap in the oncoming traffic flow). In the United Kingdom, drivers may enter the box and wait when they want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traff ...

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Boxing in the 1940s

Boxing in the 1940s in many ways reflected worldwide situations that affected other endeavors as well. World War II raged early in the decade, and just like baseballers, many popular boxers went overseas to fight for their countries, Joe Louis, Billy Conn, Beau Jack, and Bob Montgomery among them. Louis was used to entice Americans to join the war against Germany, a couple of propaganda movies starring Louis and many propaganda posters being produced. The posters in particular are collectors' items today.. Louis' great rival, M ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Ballot box

A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually cuboid, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period. It will usually be located in a polling station although in some coutries, notably Ireland, there may also be ballot boxes that are taken to people's homes where they would otherwise be unable to travel to the polling station. When very large ballot papers are used, there may be a feeder mechanism to ...

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Box set

A box set (or boxed set) refers to one or more recordings, movies and television programs that are contained in a "box" made generally out of cardboard. Box set - Notable music recording box sets. (list in order of release date) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/1975-85 - Bruce Springsteen (1986) Crossroads - Eric Clapton (1988) The Beatles Box Set - The Beatles (1988) The Good, the Bad and the Live - Metallica ( ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Box office

A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue. The term is often used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonymy for the amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. This can be measured in terms of the number of people who see it or the amount of money raised by ticket sales. The projection and analysis of these earn ...

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Boxing in the 1950s

During the 1950s, a couple of relatively new developments changed the world: World War II had only been over for five years when the decade of the 50's began, and television was beginning to make a major impact internationally. In boxing, changes connected to these developments could be seen too, as boxers who fought at the 1940s conflict returned to their homes and many of them were back in the ring. Television producers were in love with sports, which provided the viewer with an opportunity to observe sporting events life, and boxing was n ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Boxing in the 1960s

During the 1960s, boxing, like mostly everything else around the world, went through changing times. Boxers from the old guard of boxing gave way to a new movement filled with youth, controversy and enthusiasm. The decade of the 1960s is best remembered by the insurgence of a young boxer named Cassius Clay, who would, in his own words shock the world, declare himself against war, and change his name to Muhammad Ali. Many sociologists, observers and critics now view A ...

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Boxing: Encyclopedia - Boxing ring

The boxing ring is the space in which a boxing match occurs. A modern ring is square, set on a raised platform and bound around with four parallel rows of rope attached to posts at each corner of the ring. Currently professional contests have to have a international standard ring. However there are a number of different international standards. The name ring is an atavism from when contests were fought in a roughly drawn circle on the ground, the name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules (1743) specifying a small circle ...

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Boxing ring - Standard ring size

Boxing: Encyclopedia - Check box

In computing, a check box is a graphical user interface element (widget) that indicates a two-way choice or state (true/false) which can be edited by the user. Normally, check boxes are shown on the screen as a square box that can contain white space (for false) or a tick mark or X (for true). Adjacent to the check box is normally shown a caption describing the meaning of the check box. Inverting the state of a check box is done by clicking the mouse on the button, ...