Literature, documents, or information relating to boxing and pugilism; the body of knowledge about fist-fighting sports.
From fistic meaning 'relating to boxing' plus the Latin suffix -ana meaning 'a collection of miscellaneous information.' This term was particularly common in 19th-century sporting literature.
Sports historians and boxing enthusiasts in the 1800s would collect 'fistiana'—old fight records, training manuals, and newspaper accounts—the way we now collect sports memorabilia and Instagram posts about athletes!
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