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Gloves weren't introduced to boxing for safety. They were actually introduced in order to increase the number of punches to the head.
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In fact, boxing was much safer before gloves. This is because boxers would rarely hit the head. It was hard and many fights would end with broken knuckles because of head shots.
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Ever since the advent of boxing gloves, the number of deaths due to boxing has dramatically increased. Of course, medicine has improved as well, so boxers tend to survive what would have been fatal blows in the past.
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Archie ‘The Old Mongoose’ Moore holds the record for the most knockouts at 131. In fact, he only fought 219 fights. That means that more than half of his fights ended with him knocking out the other boxer.
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The Greeks included boxing in the Olympic games as early as 688 BC
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