The Sweet Science of Bruising?

[Butt stuff]

Saw this comment on another website in response to a commenter liking a certain mauling style fighter.

Is there any credence to this claim? It does pop up on Wikipedia but who knows if it is the first conception of the phrase or merely was it just "of brusing" added to it later on?



Find it pretty funny if its true, especially since it would own alot of hipster posters who drop the most irritating and smug boxing phrase, the ever appreciators of "the sweet science".

[DoktorSleepless]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxiana

Egan wrote magazine articles about the bareknuckle forerunner of boxing, which at that time was conducted under the London Prize Ring rules, and was outlawed in England. A devoted follower of boxing, Egan called it "The Sweet Science of Bruising." Periodically he would gather his boxing articles in a bound volume and publish them under the title Boxiana; or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism. The first volume was published in 1813

Not sure if the term "sweet science" existed before that though.

[SilverMiles]

I was actually thinking about making a thread about this just yesterday. I always find it funny when posters who thinking they know about boxing tells other they don't appreciation the Sweet Science as if they are voice of boxing. Even though the "Sweet Science" represents how much damage you can inflict on your opponent not how much damage you can avoid you tell have suppose fans using the term to defend defensive minded fighters.

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There's nothing inherently more "scientific" about running away than swarming, so it makes sense. People got bored back then just like now.

[ea22]

Not sure he is right about it being the art of bruising, but I remember reading Jack Dempsey's Championship Fighting a year ago, and the way he described what the sweet science meant would shame a lot of the boxing hipsters around here. He made an argument that boxing had regressed since his fighting days because of the amount of bad punching technique and lack of true effective aggression.

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

theres different styles and thats what makes boxing what it is. people still watch the spurs even though they arnet all that exciting. let a man fight how he wants,i bet if someone tries to run up and sock you in the face u move out the way! its not you in there and its not you that trained for many months, whether they wanna box run or just swing away let each fighter do what they chose. not everyone is gonan fight the same, i dont see why thats so hard to grasp, some of yall get so bent outta shape over one fight its insane. l

[man-of-war]

i always get a chuckle out of these posers who get all upset because you find their defensive minded favorite fighter boring. they tell you that you dont understand boxing, as if the concept of boxing is some super complicated equation that requires some form of elevated understanding. its like some high school drop out telling me i dont know anything about literature because i find romance novels boring.

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boxing is the absolute dumbest sport in the world and that's why i love it

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YEAH!! HIT HIM IN THE HEAD!! HAHAHA!!!