in Virgil's Aeneid, two fighters -- Dares and Entellus -- face off in a boxing match. Here’s a Roman-era mosaic from the floor of a French villa showing the two fighters, along with the bull that Entellus won and then sacrificed to the gods with a single blow to the skull:
A French artist tried to depict the scene in the 1500s, with much less fidelity to the original description (what’s up with those clubs?):
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The history of ancient boxing -- and its modern revival -- here:
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Meanwhile, in the world of football, the Pop Tart Bowl had an anthropomorphic Pop Tart who asked to be lowered into a giant toaster, holding a sign saying "DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE"
The toaster then spat out a human-sized Pop Tart with a face for the winning team to eat