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History of Boxing in Mexico

Silas Gillett

Why Mexico?

> 200 World Champions

Influential boxing style

Why Mexico?

Mexicanidad and Masculinity

Mexicanidad & Masculinity

  • Masculinity as performance

  • Revolutionary period

  • Machismo

Timeline

Timeline

Mesoamerica

  • Pre-Classic era Zapotecs

  • Classic and Post-classic era Maya

19th Century

19th Century

  • Porfiriato & globalization

  • Marquis of Queensbury Rules

  • North Americans entertaining Mexican elite

Growth in the 1920s

Growth in the 1920s

  • Mexican Revolution
  • Sports as entertainment
  • Dempsey vs Firpo
  • Federal District Boxing Commission
  • Olympic sports develop

Golden Era

  • Growth of international sports
  • New arenas
  • Ties Mexico together

Urbanization and LA

Ubanization and LA

  • Mexico City population 1930: ~ 1 million
  • 1970: > 9 million
  • Corruption and excess
  • Los Angeles
  • WWII
  • Suburbanization

Regulation

  • 1959 Luis Spota president of FDBC
  • 1963 first World Boxing Convention and World Boxing Council
  • NBA -> WBA, joins WBC
  • Pulls out 1966
  • Power struggles throughout 1970s

Second Golden Era

  • 1968 Summer Olympics
  • 1969 3 World champs in 6 months
  • Most championships in LA
  • Julio Caesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares, Salvador Sanchez, Carlos Zarate, Ricardo Lopez

Second Golden Era

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