Boxing

"The noble sport."

- Vernon Dursley's opinion of this sport.

Boxing is a combat sport where two contenders attempt to knock each other down with their fists. Starting in 1995, Dudley Dursley became interested in amateur boxing. He showed an aptitude for the sport, and quickly became good enough to be the Junior Heavyweight Inter-School Boxing Champion of the Southeast. His participation in boxing, in conjuction with the diet enforced by the Smeltings school nurse, rapidly wrought a change in Dudley's physique; though he was as large as ever, much of that fat had apparently become muscle instead. Taking up boxing also improved Dudley's bullying tactics, to the point where all of the neighbourhood children, with the exception of Harry Potter and perhaps Dudley's gang, were terrified of him.