Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
Torstaina, Helmikuu 26, 1903, Jack Johnson puolusti värillisen raskaansarjan nyrkkeilyn maailmanmestaruutta voittamatonta Sam McVeyta vastaan. McVey toi a 6-0 ennätys kuudella tyrmäyksellä mestaruusottelussa. Koska nyrkkeilypromoottorit kieltäytyivät päästämästä mustia taistelijoita kilpailemaan raskaansarjan nyrkkeilyn maailmanmestaruudesta, vuosisadan vaihteen parhaat nyrkkeilijät taistelivat World Coloredin puolesta
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. Kuitenkin, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Ammattitaistelut 1800-luvulla nauttivat huonosta maineesta sen ulkopuolella
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 vuotta, 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
Maaliskuun 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
Heinäkuun 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.” Vaikka Georges Carpentier
Tammikuu 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, takes him
Tom Allen syntyi Birminghamissa, Englannissa, mutta taisteli joitain kuuluisimmista taisteluistaan Amerikassa. Sisään 1867, Allen muutti St. Ludvig, suurin kaupunki Mississippin länsipuolella. Allen ei koskaan lähtenyt ja käytti St. Louisin kotitukikohtana harjoittelemaan palkintotaisteluja. Allen taisteli enimmäkseen paljain rystysten voittotaisteluissa, kuten amerikkalainen nyrkkeily ei olisi
Marraskuun 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. Ludvig, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
Lokakuun 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 kiloa. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Molempien miesten fanit saapuivat sisään
Heinäkuun 3, 1905, Marvin Hart tuli taistelu vapaana maailman otsikko 3 to 1 heikompi osapuoli. 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