Sweet Science

[Darwinself]

If I somehow missed this answer while searching the archives just growl at me once and tell me how to find it.

Why is boxing called the Seet Science?

anonymouse

[kniz]

Seet?

[Duck Duck Goose]

[obligatory growl]
use a search engine, dammit :D


Google. "Sweet science boxing". Hit #4.

http://www.greatbasinweb.com/gb2-2/sweetstories.htm
The phrase “the sweet science of boxing” was popularized by Liebling. He got it from Pierce Egan’s Boxiana, collections of articles about boxing in England in the 1700s. Egan called boxing “The Sweet Science of Bruising.”
I'll let you take it from there. :)

[Darwinself]

but why Sweet?