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    ARMENIAN BOXERS PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    28.01.2010 18:22 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On January 26-31, Karen Demirchyan~Rs Sport and
    Concert Complex is hosting Armenian Boxing Championship.

    As Armenian Boxing Federation press secretary Lusine Harutyunyan
    told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, 100 sportsmen from Armenian regions
    participate in the championship.

    Armenian boxers will compete in 11 weigh categories (48, 51, 54, 57,
    60, 64, 69, 75, 81, 91 and +91 kg).

    Championship finals are due on January 31.

    Boxing is a combat sport in which two participants, generally
    of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is
    supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of
    one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to
    win. Victory is achieved if the opponent is knocked out and unable to
    get up before the referee counts to ten seconds (a Knockout, or KO)
    or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue (a Technical
    Knockout, or TKO). If there is no stoppage of the fight before
    an agreed number of rounds, a winner is determined either by the
    referee's decision or by judges' scorecards. Although fighting with
    fists comes naturally to people, evidence of fist-fighting contests
    first appear on ancient Sumerian, Egyptian and Minoan reliefs. The
    ancient Greeks provide us our first historical records of boxing as
    a formal sport; they codified a set of rules and staged tournaments
    with professionals. The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its
    acceptance as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC. Modern boxing
    evolved in Europe. In some countries with their own fighting sports,
    the sport is referred to as "English Boxing" (e.g. in France to
    contrast with French boxing, or in Burma with Burmese boxing and in
    Thailand with Thai boxing). There are numerous different styles of
    boxing practiced around the world. Boxing does not allow kicks like
    the styles above.
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