Boxing — Olympics: Boxing is a sport in which two participants of same weight fight each other with their fists. There are several rounds in a boxing match. The fighter, who scores the maximum after the completion of the rounds, is declared the winner. Victory may also be achieved through the knock out of the opponent in the fight. Boxing is also known as Western Boxing, prizefighting or the sweet science.
Boxing in the Summer Games: Boxing was a part of the ancient Summer Games. In those days the fight would often end with one boxer's death. When the modern Summer Games were resumed in 1896 , the Athens organizing committee decided to omit boxing from the Olympics' schedule as it was too dangerous. The sport was introduced to the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis. Again the sport was excluded from Olympic program in 1912 as the Swedish law banned the sport. Later boxing reappeared in the schedule of the Summer Games in 1920. Since then, the sport has been contested at every Summer Games.
Boxing at the 2008 Summer Games: At the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, boxing matches are going to be held for 15 days from 9 th August to 24 th August. The finals of the boxing competition will be held on 23 rd and 24 th August. Olympics boxing competition will be an all-male competition. The number of gold medals in contention for boxing is 11. The boxing program will be held at the Workers' Indoor Arena, Gongti Lu in the Chaoyang District. The events included in the boxing program will be light flyweight, flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, light welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight and super heavyweight.
Jorge Arce, Brian Viloria, Roberto Vasquez, Ulises Solis, Omar Nino Romero, Yutaka Niida, Eagle Kyowa, Mohammad Rachman Sawaluddin, Ivan Calderon, Koki Kameda, Hugo Fidel Cazares, Lorenzo Parra, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, Vic Darchinyan, Omar Andrés Narváez, Nobuo Nashiro, Masamori Tokuyama, Cristian Ricardo Lucio Mijares, Luis Alberto Perez, Fernando Montiel, Wladimir Sidorenko, Hozumi Hasegawa, Rafael Marquez, Celestino Caballero, Israel Vazquez, Daniel Ponce de León, Yohannes Christian John, Rodolfo Lopez, Robert Joseph GuerreroScott Harrison, Scott Harrison, Juan Manuel Marquez, Edwin Valero, Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia, Gairy St. Clair, Joan Guzman, Joan Guzman, Joel Casamayor Johnson, David Diaz, Jesus Gabriel Sandoval Chavez, Julio Diaz, Souleymane M'baye, Junior Witter, Juan Urango, Miguel Cotto, Richard Hatton, Carlos Manuel Baldomir, Antonio Margarito, José Antonio Rivera, Oscar de la Hoya, Cory Spinks, Sergiy Dzindziruk, Jermain Taylor, Javier Francisco Castillejo, Arthur Abraham, Mikkel Kessler, Markus Beyer, Joseph Calzaghe, Fabrice Tiozzo, Silvio Branco, Tomasz Adamek, Clinton Woods, Zsolt Erdei, Bernard Hopkins, O'Neil Bell, Virgil Eugene Hill, Enzo Maccarinelli, Nikolai Valuev, Oleg Maskaev, Dr. Wladimir Wladimirowich Klitschko and Sergei Liakhovich are the current boxing champions , who are the expected contenders in the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing .
