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Minoan youths boxing ca. 1500 BC, the earliest evidence for the use of gloves (Akrotiri fresco) There is archeological and artistic evidence of ancient Greek boxing (πύξ - pyx [1] or πυγμή - pygme [2] in Αncient Greek) as early as the Minoan and Mycenaean periods. There are numerous legends about the origins of boxing in Greece.
Prytanis of Cyzicus was an ancient Greek boxing athlete, originating from Cyzicus. Prytanis participated in the 98th ancient Olympic Games , where he was bribed by his opponents. Both Prytanis and those who corrupted him with money were fined.
Altogether he was said to have won 1400 crowns at various Greek festivals. [2] He gained a victory at Olympia in the 75th Olympiad, 480 BC. (Paus. vi. 6. § 5.) The popular story among the Thasians was that Heracles was his father. Thomas Green claims that in the course of winning 1,406 boxing matches, Theagenes killed "most of his opponents". [3]
Pindar also then incorporated greek mythology into his work in honoring Diagoras in Olympian 7 saying: "Father Zeus, you who rule over the ridges of Atabyrium, grant honor to the hymn ordained in praise of an Olympian victor, and to the man who has found excellence as a boxer, and grant to him honored grace in the eyes of both citizens and ...
In Greek mythology, it was said that the heroes Heracles and Theseus invented pankration as a result of using both wrestling and boxing in their confrontations with opponents. Theseus was said to have used pankration to defeat Cercyon of Eleusis in a wrestling match, as well as the minotaur in the labyrinth .
In Greek mythology, Amykos (Ancient Greek: ... When the Argonauts passed through Bithynia, Amycus challenged the best man of the crew to a boxing match.
One was in boxing (480 BCE) and the other in the pankration (476). He won three times in boxing at the Pythian Games; nine times in boxing and once in the pankration at the Isthmian Games; and nine times in boxing at the Nemean Games. He also won the long distance race at Argos. He had 1300 other victories in lesser Games.
Onomastus of Smyrna (Greek: Ὀνόμαστος) was the first Olympic victor in boxing at the 23rd Olympiad, 688 BC, when this sport was added. According to Philostratus, [1] Pausanias and Eusebius, Onomastus was not only the first Olympic boxing champion but he wrote the rules of Ancient Greek boxing as well.