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<blockquote data-quote="gdwrnch40" data-source="post: 3148223" data-attributes="member: 157286">KusaThe passage you include is interesting but I asked...Whilst this article includes some interesting anectdotes about how the sport of boxing was of interest to the Japanese and how they might have seen it as a way to toughen up their men, it contains not accounts of boxing ever being used in warfare, unless you include this passageBut as it says in that passage...&nbsp;In other words the author of that passage was prone to exageration.the rest of the article just points out how boxing became a sport in Japan, and mentions nothing about the use of boxing in war. So I ask again...When was boxing ever used in warfare?Apart from that much of the article seems to talk about matches between boxing and jujutsu men and how there was a class for one year at Toyama university between 1923 and 1924. Hardly a suucessful turning point in the art of boxing in the Japanese military if it only lasted a year. And thsi itself seems to be nothing more than an exhibition rather than actual training of troops.When was boxing ever used in warfare?Now i&#039;m not saying it wasn&#039;t I just cant find any evidence that it ever was.Garth</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gdwrnch40, post: 3148223, member: 157286"] Kusa The passage you include is interesting but I asked... Whilst this article includes some interesting anectdotes about how the sport of boxing was of interest to the Japanese and how they might have seen it as a way to toughen up their men, it contains not accounts of boxing ever being used in warfare, unless you include this passage But as it says in that passage... In other words the author of that passage was prone to exageration. the rest of the article just points out how boxing became a sport in Japan, and mentions nothing about the use of boxing in war. So I ask again... When was boxing ever used in warfare? Apart from that much of the article seems to talk about matches between boxing and jujutsu men and how there was a class for one year at Toyama university between 1923 and 1924. Hardly a suucessful turning point in the art of boxing in the Japanese military if it only lasted a year. And thsi itself seems to be nothing more than an exhibition rather than actual training of troops. When was boxing ever used in warfare? Now i'm not saying it wasn't I just cant find any evidence that it ever was. Garth [/QUOTE]

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