How is boxing related to firefighting?
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Very much... if there is a couple of boxers boxing in Las Vegas at the MGM boxing field and the huge panel with TV goes down to the floor, exploits next to the competitors and the Nike short that one of them is using gets in fire... the other one would definitely work as a firefighter to turn the fire off...\nLOL... very related...
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Why? Because, you huge wuss, the only way a real man wins a boxing match is to beat up the other guy until he can't stand up anymore. For a very long time, this was literally true. Prize fighting was simply hitting, biting, gouging, anything short of the use of weapons until the other guy gave up. The first rules were pub rules, and were put in place to lower the chances of a boxer getting killed. For instance, when a boxer was knocked down, his\nopponent had to stop hitting him. Each knockdown was called a 'round.' However, this rule was soon exploited by boxers taking a knee as soon as they got tired, at their leisure, and ending the round so they could catch their breath. \n\n\nIn 1743, Jack Broughton, the English champion, drew up a set of rules that became at least moderately accepted. Chief among these was the addition of "two Umpires, who shall absolutely decide all Disputes that may arise about the Battle." These disputes were not about who won or lost, which was still determined only by giving up, or a boxer not being able to return to the fight within 30 seconds of being knocked down, but about the new foul calls Broughton introduced, namely whether a boxer had "hit his Adversary when he is down or seize him by the ham, the breeches, or any part below the waist." You know, protect life first, the family jewels second.\n\n\nThe Broughton Rules were superseded by the London Prize Rules in 1838, but really these were only modifications and standardizations, such as ring dimensions, giving a boxer a little more time to "come up to scratch" at the beginning of the round, and making it the responsibility of the judges to determine if a man was truly knocked down to end a round, or if he had just taken a knee to gain his wind, which was considered a foul. Still,\nknockouts and crying uncle were the only ways, short of being kicked out by the judges, of losing a fight.\n\n\nIn 1867, the London Amateur Athletic Club drew up a new set of rules, including mandating boxers to wear gloves, limiting rounds to three minutes, disallowing any contact besides punches (i.e., wrestling holds), and declaring a boxer who could not stand within ten seconds of a knockdown the loser of the contest. The LAAC got their rules endorsed by John Sholto Douglas, the Marquess of Queensberry. These rules eventually won out over the London Prize\nRules for a couple of reasons, among them the celebrity endorsement by the Marquess, the appeal to the audience of the increased fight pace, and the use of gloves, which reduced the risk that a boxer would die in the ring.\n\n\nThe boxing community was slow to adopt a uniform set of rules. In 1889, John L. Sullivan defended the heavyweight title by KOing Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds under bare-knuckle rules, Ike Weir fought Frank Murphy to an 80 round draw in a featherweight tiltle fight, and Chappie Moran won a 10-round decision over Tommy Kelly for the first bantamweight title. Sullivan, weary from his fight, declared that, from then on, "The Marquess of Queensbury Rules\nmust govern [my fights], as I want fighting, not foot-racing." In 1890, London's Pelican Club, the quasi-official governing body of the boxing world, adopted rules similar to Queensberry's, with the modification that a fight could last no longer than 20 rounds, for the first time codifying the emerging practice of having the judges score fights in which there was no obvious winner. Significantly, the Moran-Kelly fight was in Brooklyn, under New\nYork laws which prohibited fights longer than 10 rounds, necessitating judges to determine a winner if neither fighter was knocked out. Eventually, this came to be thought of as an acceptable arrangement by other governing bodies of boxing, again, because boxers were more likely to survive the fights. From 1911-1920, New York fights, and pretty much all American fights, were fought under the "Frawley Law," which not only restricted
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IN WRESTLING U CAN KICK PPL THROW THEM JUMP ON THEM AND USE WEAPONS ON THEM AND 99% OF IT IS FAKE and in boxing u can only punch or kick it depends if you are in kck boxing or just boxing and no weapons or jumping and throwing.
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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 an international standard ring. However there are a number of different international standards.\n\nThe 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 in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838, the ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes
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I good place to check is your PAL - Police Atheltic League.  Most counties have them.  Out here, in NJ, where everything is ridculously expensive, our PAL youth boxing league only costs 25 dollars A YEAR!  the coaches they have there are fantastic.  you can't beat that.
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Muaythai is a tough sport.  The knockdowns and KOs seem to be less than in boxing but the careers are shorter.  The guys who do it tend to be kids from the countryside, who dedicate most of their teens to this sport.  The ritual and feeling of a muaythai match is fun to see and I really think regular boxing tends to be more dangerous.  Me, I'll watch, too damn old to get hit!
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Hell no!  The people want to see blood and guts all the time and they are giving the sport of boxing a bad image.  It is a sport!  It's about skills and condition.  And yes; there are some cases of people getting hurt.  But I don't think is intentionally.  Ronald 'Winky' Wright is an example of how boxing should be.
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the term kickboxing refer to\nboxing-like sport which accomodate kick.\nthey usually derived from : Karate, muay thay, savate, taekwondo, etc.\n\nthey use gloves, use their hand like boxer (jab, hook, straight punch) and use kick like eastern martial arts.\n\ncompared to other MA (karate, taekwondo, muay thay) :\n1. they are purely sport. without philosophy, way of life or secret technique. \n2. the hand is protected with glove - reducing up to 80% of punch power.\n3. just like boxing.. this sport emphasize on stamina.\n4. do not use style or kata to train reflexes.\n5. use stand-up fighting. lack in grappling, open hand technique, choking, poking, etc.\n6. fight in the ring using\n\nu can PM me for further discussion.
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I've been doing kickboxing and I love it! It's so much fun! Sorry I can't help you with the other part of the question i wouldn't want to steer you wrong.
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This site has instructions.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/boxing/newsid_3526000/3526378.stm\n\nJ.
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Its a movie about firefighters who track down the mysterious arsonist who sets "firebombs" around town. It stars Kurt Russell and one of the Baldwin brothers.\n\nIf you like firefighter stories, I recommend checking out "Rescue Me" a good tv series with Denis Leary.
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no, boxing is a good sport to watch or do, even it seems it is a little wild. \n\nthe most beautiful thing about boxing is after the match, two opponents congratulate each other, after they had punched each other for all the match. in which sport do you see this?\n\nın soccer or basketball or any other court sports, most of the time, the loser leaves the pitch but in most of the fighting sports, they act better to each other after the match.
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Boxing is an excellent workout because it works all muscles in the body.  If you aren't interested in sparring, search for an aerobic boxing class or a boxing gym that does not expect people to spar if they don't want to.  Steer clear of any class or gym that appears to be too quick to throw people in the ring before they are ready.  If you want to spar, don't let anyone tell you that women can't.  Women can spar with the proper equipment: headgear, mouth guard, chest protector, and groin protector.  You can practice it for years.  Many people, including myself, took up boxing late in life, well after the age of 35.
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you should study karate it uses all of your bodies weapons unlike boxing it only uses hands
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Boxing. It's a one-on-one competition of strength and skill.
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I don't think boxing is going away as a sport. Not everyone's into ground and pound, however effective that may appear to be in a medium that encourages such tactics.
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Look on the internet under boxing