約翰遜擊敗麥克維
上週四, 二月 26, 1903, 傑克·約翰遜 (Jack Johnson) 對陣不敗的薩姆·麥克維 (Sam McVey)，衛冕了世界有色人種重量級拳擊冠軍. 麥克維帶來了 6-0 冠軍賽中六次淘汰賽的紀錄. 由於拳擊推廣者拒絕讓黑人拳擊手參加世界重量級拳擊錦標賽, 世紀之交最優秀的拳擊手為世界有色人種而戰
Category: 裸機獎杯和職業拳擊歷史
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世紀的職業格鬥在外界之外名聲不佳
Man Kills Middleweight King
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 歲月, 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, 內華達州. 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.” 即使Georges Carpentier
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, takes him
艾倫與梅斯爭奪世界冠軍
湯姆·艾倫（Tom Allen）出生於伯明翰, 英格蘭，但在美國打了一些他最著名的戰鬥. 在 1867, 艾倫搬到聖. 路易, 密西西比州以西最大的城市. 艾倫從未離開，會使用聖. 路易斯作為他的本壘打比賽訓練的基地. 艾倫主要參加拳打比賽，因為美國拳擊比賽不會進行。
傑姆·梅斯（Jem Mace）與喬·科伯恩（Joe Coburn）戰鬥
十一月 30, 1871, 一大群人在新奧爾良登上十輛有軌電車, 在新奧爾良運河街停靠的莫比爾和得克薩斯州鐵路, 路易斯安那州. 火車繼續駛向Bay St附近的Montgomery站. 路易, 密西西比, 人群離開雨水，進入樹林的地方. 如此奇怪的遊行
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, 馬薩諸塞州. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 英鎊. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. 兩人的粉絲都到場了
馬文·哈特贏得空置標題
七月 3, 1905, 馬文·哈特進入空置世界冠軍的戰鬥 3 至 1 弱旅. 傑克根會是誰第一個輕重量級冠軍是最有希望接替剛剛退役的詹姆斯Ĵ. 杰弗里斯. 杰弗里斯將裁判這個稱號比賽代替他. 馬文·哈特最近擊敗傑克·約翰遜. 被廣泛認為