Boxeo, espectáculo y deporte. Hacia la construcción de una institucionalidad pugilística en la Buenos Aires de los años veinte

Abstract

e main purpose of this paper is to analyze the tensions in the consolidation of boxing as a sport-show in the city of Buenos Aires during the twenties. In this way we are interested in starting to retrace that mesh that was giving form and meaning to the practice of that sport: the development of new clubs in the city, the job opportunities that were generated for a wide group of men, the institutionalization, the regulation and the construction of a symbolic universe around pugilism that included social forms and imaginaries, as well as the dispute for the taste of the spectators and the appropriate ways (in terms of technic and style) to