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As excitement heats up on the forthcoming WBC Lightweight Championship bout on June 28, 2008, drum it up by sending innovative smileys in your emails to family and friends. Innovation has never spared smileys and emoticons that now represent popular events and colorful personalities – from David Cook, to fathers on Father’s Day, and now, world-class boxing matches. Read more.

Boxing is a sport event where two participants will fight each other with their fists. Kickboxing comprises kicking, dashing and knocking between two parties. To safeguard the boxers against any damages, kick boxing equipments are designed and produced.

If you want to start boxing you will need to find a club or gym that has the necessary equipment to help you with your conditioning and training. You will need a jump rope, medicine ball, punching bag, and exercise mats. Conditioning will also include learning breathing techniques, abdominal, leg, and arm exercises, and eventually working with a partner.

Your hands might get damaged or broken if you don’t properly take care of it for boxing. This process initiates by wrapping your hands with lengthy strips of cloth called ‘hand wraps’; this is followed by digging the hands into the boxing gloves. Here are few steps mentioned below which one should follow before putting on the boxing gloves.

Muay Thai is a Thai mixed martial art form. It has many techniques of fighting. While using Muay Thai techniques, fighters use the entire body including fists, elbows, shins, feet and knees. The basic Muay Thai training techniques include punch techniques, elbow techniques and kicking techniques.

Boxing promoter Frank Warren must be furious. The ‘spectacle’ that was presented to the viewing public, never mind the paying fans inside London’s ExCel arena, on Saturday 10 th Dec 2005 was a diabolical demonstration of exactly how far heavyweight boxing has fallen.