George Foreman famously said, "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." Here's a brief history of one of the most testing sports one could participate in.

All sports have the potential of becoming about much more than athletics, transforming into symbols of a culture’s and country’s mood, insecurities, conflicts, and hopes. But perhaps no sport lends itself to this kind of transposition more than boxing.

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