约翰逊击败麦克维
上周四, 二月 26, 1903, 杰克·约翰逊 (Jack Johnson) 对阵不败的萨姆·麦克维 (Sam McVey)，卫冕了世界有色人种重量级拳击冠军. 麦克维带来了 6-0 冠军赛中六次淘汰赛的纪录. 由于拳击推广者拒绝让黑人拳手参加世界重量级拳击锦标赛, 世纪之交最优秀的拳击手为世界有色人种而战
Category: 裸机奖杯和职业拳击历史
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
Ned O’Baldwin Shot
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. 然而, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. 19 世纪的职业格斗在国外声名狼藉
Man Kills Middleweight King
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 岁月, 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
Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897
三月 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, 内华达州. 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
Dempsey KOs Carpentier
七月 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.” 尽管乔治·卡彭铁尔
Palooka (1934)
一月 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, 带他
艾伦与梅斯争夺世界冠军
汤姆·艾伦出生在伯明翰, 英格兰，但在美国打了一些他最著名的战斗. 在 1867, 艾伦搬到圣. 路易, 密西西比州以西最大的城市. 艾伦从未离开，会使用圣. 路易斯作为他的本垒打比赛训练的基地. 艾伦（Allen）主要是在裸指比赛中打架，因为美国拳击比赛不会进行。
杰姆·梅斯（Jem Mace）与乔·科伯恩（Joe Coburn）战斗
上月 30, 1871, 一大群人在新奥尔良登上十辆有轨电车, 在新奥尔良运河街停靠的莫比尔和得克萨斯州铁路, Louisiana. 火车继续驶向Bay St附近的Montgomery站. 路易, 密西西比, 人群离开雨水，进入树林的地方. 这么奇怪的游行
Irish Giant Bashes Wormald
十月 29, 1868, “Irish Giant” Ned O’Baldwin and English prizefighter Joe Wormald met in a bare knuckle prize-fight outside of Boston in Lynnville, 马萨诸塞州. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 英镑. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. 两人的粉丝都到场了
马文·哈特赢得空置标题
七月 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entered the fight for the vacant world title as a 3 至 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. 被广泛考虑