Personal Narrative Essay About Fighting Over Time

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If I lived in back in the old English time, I would enjoy fighting more than anything. Since I do enjoy fighting now, I suspect that I would enjoy it a little better in that time period. Fighting has been around since time began over time and it been used to illustrate dominance, power, and status throughout history. The Greeks conducted matches where they fought to the death with their hand wrapped in leather. The Romans often used the sport as a test of strength, their hands, and forearms wrapped in crude leather and metal, called gestures. Boxing was revived in the beginning of the 1600’s but it resembled what is today's mixed martial arts, using a combination of punches and wrestling moves to pin your opponent as you punched them from above.

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