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The prototype of female boxing is the fist fights of girls in Sparta. Girls there were made to educate along with boys, athletic and hardy. In training camps, they were engaged in running, gymnastics, javelin throwing and trained in hand-to-hand combat. Plato in his works admired the resilience of the Spartans and advised the Athenians to take an example from them. Only now he proposed to �replace fist fights for them with competitions using arrows, light shields, darts or throwing stones� � Plato considered sparring on bare fists too harsh for women.
After ancient Greece, there was almost no mention of female fist fights. In ancient Rome, women participated in gladiatorial fights, in the Middle Ages they performed at knightly tournaments. Reliable information about female sparring, similar to modern boxing, reappears only in the 18th century in England.
The fights were arranged for the amusement of the public, and the interest of the audience was heated by notes in the press. The most famous female boxer of the time, Elizabeth Wilkinson, called herself the champion of Europe. Newspapers attributed to her 45 fights without defeat, and this for those times was a difficult task. In the 18th century, fighting looked different than it does today.
Athletes fought without gloves and without protection. Girls entered the ring in dresses and corsets. Opponents could kick each other, make wrestling grabs and throws, and women, among other things, were allowed to drag each other's hair, scratch and bite. The fight ended when one of the boxers gave up or simply could not get back on his feet. Sometimes additional conditions are imposed.
In 1722, The London Journal published an announcement of Wilkinson and Hannah Heifeld's fight: "I, Elizabeth Wilkinson of Clerkenwell, having had a conversation with Hannah Heifeld, invite her to meet me in a boxing match for the prize of three guineas. Each of us will hold a half-crown coin in each fist, and the first to drop the money will lose.�
�I, Hannah Heifeld of the New Gate Market, having heard of Elizabeth Wilkinson�s courage, will not back down and, by God�s grace, will give her more blows than words, neither accepting nor sparing.�
Wilkinson won that fight. In addition to her and Heifeld in the 20s of the 18th century, several more female boxers became famous: Ann Field, Martha Jones, Mary Welch, Margaret Malloy, who was otherwise called �Peg, putting bruises.� They were all from the poorest sectors of society. At that time, only women of unknown origin participated in fights in public. At least there are no reports of aristocrats in the ring until the early 19th century. All because female boxers were considered easily accessible and wild. They fought no less fiercely than men: to bloody faces, knocked out teeth and torn dresses - a picture that contradicts the image of the lady of the romantic era. But talk about accessibility is mostly rumors. Many of these women were married. Elizabeth Wilkinson, along with her husband James Stokes, even participated in pair fights, which were also popular at that time.
Women�s boxing has always attracted a lot of spectators. In 1876, at the Harry Hill gambling center in New York, two dancers Rose Harland and Nellie Sanders staged a fight to attract more visitors.