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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
O xoves, Febreiro 26, 1903, Jack Johnson defendeu o seu Campionato Mundial de Boxeo Peso Pesado de Colores contra o invicto Sam McVey. McVey trouxo un 6-0 récord con seis nocauts no partido do campionato. Dado que os promotores do boxeo negáronse a permitir que os loitadores negros competisen polo Campionato Mundial de Boxeo Peso Pesado, os mellores boxeadores ao redor do cambio de século loitaron polo World Colored
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. Porén, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. A loita profesional no século XIX gozaba dunha mala reputación fóra de
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 anos, 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 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 xullo de 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.” Aínda que Georges Carpentier
En xaneiro de 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, lévao
Tom Allen naceu en Birmingham, Inglaterra pero pelexou algunhas das súas loitas máis famosas en América. En 1867, Allen mudouse a St. Louis, a maior cidade ao oeste do Mississippi. Allen nunca marchou e usaría St. Louis como a súa base para adestrar para pelexas de premios. Allen loitou sobre todo en pelexas de premios a nudillo desnudo como non o sería o boxeo americano
En novembro 30, 1871, unha gran multitude de homes subiu a dez vagóns en Nova Orleans, O ferrocarril móbil e de Texas paraba en Canal Street en Nova Orleans, Louisiana. O tren continuou ata a estación de Montgomery preto de Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, onde a multitude deixou a choiva e abriuse camiño cara ao bosque. Unha procesión tan rara
En outubro 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. Fans of both men arrived in
En xullo de 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entrou na loita polo título mundial vacante por 3 para 1 oprimido. 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. Amplamente considerado o