# Sweet Science **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-science/61413 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [April 10, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-science/61413 "2001-04-10T00:56:15Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Darwinself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Darwinself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwinself) #### Post date: [April 10, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-science/61413/1 "2001-04-10T00:56:15Z")
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 ---
### Author: ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz) #### Post date: [April 10, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-science/61413/2 "2001-04-10T06:14:43Z")
Seet? ---
### Author: ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose) #### Post date: [April 10, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-science/61413/3 "2001-04-10T13:30:44Z")
[_obligatory growl_] [sub]use a search engine, dammit[/sub] 😃 Google. “Sweet science boxing”. Hit #4. [http://www.greatbasinweb.com/gb2-2/sweetstories.htm](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. 🙂 ---
### Author: ![Darwinself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Darwinself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwinself) #### Post date: [April 10, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-science/61413/4 "2001-04-10T22:22:55Z")
but why Sweet?