Hanesydd Chwaraeon Brwydro ac Artist Ymladd
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
Ar ddydd Iau, Chwefror 26, 1903, Amddiffynnodd Jack Johnson ei Bencampwriaeth Bocsio Pwysau Trwm Lliw y Byd yn erbyn Sam McVey, sydd heb ei drechu. Daeth McVey a 6-0 record gyda chwe ergyd i mewn i'r gêm bencampwriaeth. Ers i hyrwyddwyr bocsio wrthod gadael i ddiffoddwyr Du gystadlu am Bencampwriaeth Bocsio Pwysau Trwm y Byd, bu'r bocswyr gorau tua throad y Ganrif yn ymladd dros y Byd Lliwiog
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Fodd bynnag,, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Roedd ymladd proffesiynol yn y 19eg Ganrif yn mwynhau enw gwael y tu allan i
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 blynyddoedd, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
Ar Fawrth 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
Ar Orffennaf 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Er bod Georges Carpentier
Ar Ionawr 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, yn ei gymryd
Ganed Tom Allen yn Birmingham, Lloegr ond ymladdodd rhai o'i ornestau enwocaf yn America. Yn 1867, Symudodd Allen i St. Louis, y ddinas fwyaf i'r gorllewin o'r Mississippi. Allen byth yn gadael a byddai'n defnyddio St. Louis fel ei gartref i hyfforddi ar gyfer ymladd gwobrau. Ymladdodd Allen yn bennaf mewn ymladdfeydd migwrn noeth gan na fyddai bocsio Americanaidd
Ar Dachwedd 30, 1871, a large crowd of men boarded ten rail cars on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad as it stopped on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
Ar Hydref 29, 1868, “Irish Giant” Ned O’Baldwin and English prizefighter Joe Wormald met in a bare knuckle prize-fight outside of Boston in Lynnville, Massachusetts. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 bunnoedd. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Cyrhaeddodd ffans y ddau ddyn i mewn
Ar Orffennaf 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entered the fight for the vacant world title as a 3 i 1 underdog. Jack Root who would be the first light heavyweight championship was the favorite to succeed the recently retired James J. Jeffries. Jeffries would referee this title match to replace him. Marvin Hart had recently beaten Jack Johnson. Widely considered the