FIGHTING FOR LIVING on Instagram: "THE ORIGINS OF BOXING - (Read caption) Long before bright arenas and championship belts, boxing began as one of the oldest contests between humans. Thousands of years ago, when men first learned to clench their fists, they discovered that their own hands could be weapons. The earliest known evidence comes from Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, where carvings from around 3000 BC show men standing face to face, fists raised. But it was the Greeks who gave boxing its