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- From: hahn@plugh.network.com (Peter Hahn)
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- Subject: Re: Just Curious...
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:45:05 GMT
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- In article <50040221@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) writes:
- >
- >The Koreans, as do the Japanese and Chinese and ..., like to claim that they
- >can trace the martial arts "in their homeland" back to some very early date
- >in history.
-
- Nor are they the only ones. I've seen all sorts of sources trying to
- draw a link between modern day Western boxing and the sort that was
- practiced in the ancient Greek Olympics. Nope. Present day boxing
- dates back to the end of the 1700's, no more.
-
- "Greaco-Roman wrestling", as presently practiced, has even shakier
- connections to any putative Golden Age.
-
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