Marie's Fight Club
Boxing classes for all levels
Boxing
is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective
gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time
in a boxing ring. Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth
Games sport and is a standard fixture in most international games—it
also has its own World Championships. Boxing is overseen by a referee
over a series of one-to-three-minute intervals called rounds. A winner
can be resolved before the completion of the rounds when a referee deems
an opponent incapable of continuing, disqualification of an opponent, or
resignation of an opponent. When the fight reaches the end of its final
round with both opponents still standing, the judges' scorecards
determine the victor. In the event that both fighters gain equal scores
from the judges, professional bouts are considered a draw. In Olympic
boxing, because a winner must be declared, judges award the contest to
one fighter on technical criteria.
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