BOXING AND THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT IT

EVANDER HOLYFIELD GOT "GET WELL" CARDS

FROM FANS BEFORE HIS FIGHT AGAINST

MIKE TYSON BECAUSE HE WAS A MASSIVE

UNDERDOG. EVANDER WENT ON TO WIN IN

ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS IN SPORTS HISTORY

BEFORE ONE OF HIS FIGHTS, SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

HAD A DREAM THAT HE WOULD KILL HIS

OPPONENT. HE WANTED TO BACK OUT BUT

WAS CONVINCED TO FIGHT ANYWAY. HE ENDED

UP KILLING HIS OPPONENT (JIMMY DOYLE).

IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS LIAM NEESON WAS AN

IRISH BOXING CHAMPION. SOME MORE FUN FACTS,

HE ALSO DROPPED OUT OF A DEGREE IN

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND WORKED AS A

FORKLIFT OPERATOR

AT 5' 7", TOMMY BURNS WAS THE SHORTEST

HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER EVER. WHAT HE WAS

REALLY KNOWN FOR, HOWEVER, WAS HIS

RESPECT FOR OTHER FIGHTERS, ESPECIALLY

OF DIFFERENT RACES. THAT WAS SOMETHING

THAT DIDN'T EXIST IN HIS DAY

AFTER 93 FIGHTS WHICH INCLUDED 18 LOSSES,

CANADIAN BOXER GEORGE CHUVALO NEVER

SUFFERED A KNOCK OUT

MEXICAN BOXER JULIO CÉSAR CHÁVEZ WON

HIS FIRST 87 FIGHTS IN A ROW

IN 1949 GUS WALDORF BOXED AGAINST

A BEAR AND LOST

IN THE CULTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE, THE GOD

APOLLO WAS SEEN AS BEING THE INVENTOR AND

PROTECTOR OF BOXING

BOXING IS ALSO CALLED PUGILISM

(LITERALLY, FIGHTING WITH YOUR FISTS)