Historiador de deportes de combate y artista marcial
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
El jueves, Febrero 26, 1903, Jack Johnson defendió su Campeonato Mundial de Boxeo Peso Pesado de Color ante el invicto Sam McVey. McVey trajo un 6-0 récord con seis nocauts en el partido por el campeonato. Desde que los promotores del boxeo se negaron a permitir que los luchadores negros compitieran por el Campeonato Mundial de Boxeo de Peso Pesado., Los mejores boxeadores de principios de siglo lucharon por el mundo de color.
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. Sin embargo, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. La lucha profesional en el siglo XIX gozó de mala reputación fuera de
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 año, 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
En marzo de 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
En julio 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.” Aunque Georges Carpentier
En enero 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, lo lleva
Tom Allen nació en Birmingham, Inglaterra, pero libró algunas de sus peleas más famosas en Estados Unidos.. In 1867, Allen se mudó a St. Louis, la ciudad más grande al oeste del Mississippi. Allen nunca se fue y usaría St. Louis como su base de operaciones para entrenar para los combates. Allen peleó principalmente en peleas de premios a puño limpio, ya que el boxeo estadounidense no sería
En noviembre 30, 1871, una gran multitud de hombres subió a diez vagones de ferrocarril en el New Orleans, Ferrocarril móvil y de Texas cuando se detuvo en Canal Street en Nueva Orleans, Luisiana. El tren continuó hasta la estación de Montgomery cerca de Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, donde la multitud dejó la lluvia y se dirigió al bosque. Una procesión tan extraña
En octubre 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 libras. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Los fans de ambos hombres llegaron
En julio 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entered the fight for the vacant world title as a 3 a 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