Boxing Crowd

An unquenchable thirst within the crowd for the sight of sport and blood, an overwhelming lust that runs rampant along the isles, charging the already excited audience up into a frenzy of animalistic onlookers that are barely able to remain seated as two large bodies pummel each other within the square ring. Evidence of fist-fighting contests first appear on ancient Sumerian, Egyptian, Assyrian and Minoan reliefs. The ancient Greeks provide us our first historical records of boxing as a formal sport; they codified a set of rules and staged tournaments with professionals. It was accepted as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC. In 1927 Dr. E. A. Speiser, an archaeologist, discovered a Mesopotamian stone tablet in Baghdad, Iraq depicting two men getting ready for a prize fight. The tablet is believed to be 7,000 years old. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=65992