Interesting Facts About Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, wearing protective gloves punch each other for a fixed amount of time in a boxing ring. Some of the countries having boxing as a popular sport is the United States of America, Mexico, The United Kingdom, Cuba, and Japan. Some of the rules of boxing - you cannot hit below the belt, hold, trip, kick, headbutt, bite, wrestle, spit on, a push your opponent. If you score a knockdown of your opponent, you must go to the farthest neutral corner while the referee makes the count. You cannot punch your opponents back, or the back of his head or neck (rabbit punch), or on the kidneys (kidney punch). And the other one is that you cannot hold your opponent and hit him at the same time, or duck so low that your head is below your opponent's beltline. Some of the boxing champions are -

• Heavyweight (unlimited) WBO: Anthony Joshua
• Cruiserweight (200 lbs.) WBO: Vacant
• Light  Heavyweight (175 lbs.) WBO: Vacant
• Super Middleweight (168 lbs.) WBO: Billy Joe Saunders
• Middleweight (160 lbs.) WBO: Demetrius Andrade