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In the beginning. The earliest evidence of boxing dates back to Egypt around 3000 BC. The sport was introduced to the ancient Olympic Games by the Greeks in the late 7th century BC, when soft leather thongs were used to bind boxersâ hands and forearms for protection.
Apollo outboxed Ares in Olympia. The model boxing match in ancient mythology was the contest between Polydeukes and Amykos, the king of the Bebrykes, who lived in Bithynia on the Black Sea. The king would urge all strangers traveling through his country to box with him and then kill them in the contest.