विलियम Muldoon, Physical Culture Legend

जब मैं पहली बार जॉन एल की एक जीवनी में विलियम Muldoon के बारे में पढ़ा. सोलिवन, पिछले नंगे अंगुली हैवीवेट चैंपियन. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts.

पिछले प्रमुख नंगे अंगुली मुक्केबाज़ी में जेक Kilrain के खिलाफ सुलिवन द्वारा लड़ा गया था 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. He was in terrible condition before fighting Kilrain and the fighting public knew it.

Kilrain was expected to be Sullivan’s hardest challenger. Kilrain lived up to his billing as evidenced by John L. needing 75 of the scheduled 80 rounds to beat Kilrain. The man responsible for getting Sullivan into shape for this important victory was William Muldoon.

Muldoon’s biggest challenge was keeping Sullivan out of the bars. Muldoon would go in to to a tavern and drag him back to training camp. The biography of Sullivan said Muldoon was the one man Sullivan feared. Anyone who scared John L. Sullivan was someone I wanted to know more about.

William Muldoon was born on May 25, 1852 in Alleghaney County, न्यूयॉर्क. He joined the Union Army as a drummer boy in 1864 पर 12 उम्र का साल. Even at this young age, he was wrestling other men and boys and doing quite well.

Muldoon made his early living by a combination of prize wrestling and working as a New York City policeman. He would be promoted to detective before resigning in 1881 to be a full time wrestler. Muldoon already won the World Championship prior to his resignation.

Muldoon beat all the top Greco-Roman wrestlers. The only wrestler he could not defeat was Clarence Whistler. They wrestled for seven hours without a single fall in one bout.

Muldoon was never defeated for his title, which he quit defending in 1890 पर 38 उम्र का साल. में 1889, when he dragged John L. out of the bar, वह था 37 to John L’s 31 उम्र का साल. Upon his retirement, Muldoon began focusing on his system of training and building his health farm in West Plains, न्यूयॉर्क.

में 1900, when he was 48 साल की उम्र, he opened his health institute, “The Olympia”, in Purchase, न्यूयॉर्क. He continued training boxers, wrestlers, athletes, celebrities and other health conscious people. He ran one of the first commercially viable health and fitness companies.

Like many old time wrestlers before and after him, Muldoon lived into his eighties. It would seem their focus on healthy living prior to the steriod era allowed them to live longer and more productive lives. Before his death at 81 years of age on June 3, 1933, he was also chairman of the New York Athletic Commission.

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