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1920’s and Boxing It was a time of conservatism; it was a time of great social change. From the world of fashion to the world of politics, forces clashed to produce the most explosive decade of the century. In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz. The Jazz Age came about with artists like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. Youth ruled everything from the young styles of dress to the latest celebrities. If it was young, it was the thing. Along with all of this the first trans-atlantic phone call was made, and the first movie with sound, and even the discovery of penicillin. It seemed like everything was happening in the twenty’s. Physical contact has always been part of human entertainment since the time of the Romans and the gladiatorial games. This was also true during the 1920’s when physical sports started to gain popularity in America. Gaining the most popularity was the unsuspected sport of Boxing in the decade of the twenty’s. Boxing is a dangerous sport in which two fighters use their physical and mental attributes to try to defeat their opponent with their fists in a square roped off ring. From the beginning of boxing, to the highest point of its popularity, to the exciting people that were a part of it, the decade of the twenties helped to make boxing a very respected sport. Boxing was a brutal spectacle in ancient Greece. Two young men would sit on flat stones, face to face, with their fists wrapped in thongs (strips of leather). At a signal, they began to hit each other until one of them fell to the ground unconscious. The other man then continued to beat his opponent until he died().
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