مؤرخ الرياضة القتالية وفنان القتال
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
ديسمبر 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought the reigning lightweight boxing champion in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to fighting Langford, most boxing experts felt Joe Gans could not be beaten in a legitimate bout. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Gans was able to break the color barrier by winning the World Lightweight Boxing Championship. Sam Langford is often considered
John Morrissey claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in a controversial bout with Yankee Sullivan in October 1853. After beating a murder charge for his participation in the murder of Bill “The Butcher” بول, Morrissey decided to defend his title against John C. Heenan, “the Benicia Boy”. “Old Smoke” Morrissey defeated Heenan in the October 1858 bout held in
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 و 126 جنيه, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. على يوليو 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
Tom Hyer won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions of the Nineteenth Century, he did not fight very often. Hyer normally paid his bills as an enforcer for political parties in New York. في الأصل, وظف هاير مواهبه لصالح حزب اليمينيين ولكنه سيغير ولاءاته إلى الحزب اليميني “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
في الأول من أكتوبر 12, 1853, 23 year-old John Morrissey would meet 40 year-old “Yankee” Sullivan for the American and possibly World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Sullivan had been considered the champion since Tom Hyer, who had beaten Sullivan previously, retired instead of fighting Sullivan in a rematch. Sullivan claimed the title and was backed by Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.
في تموز 1854, العالم Bareknuckle Prizefighting بطل جون موريسي, الذين قطعت أيضا باسم قاعة تاماني المنفذ, تحدى وليام “بيل الجزار” بول للا يحمل منعت قتال الشوارع. كان نتيجة الضرب والعديد من الشهر الانتعاش الرهيب لجون موريسي. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a
على يوليو 26, 1854, بطل برجمة العارية جون موريسي التقى عرضية مقاتلة برجمة العارية وليام بول في مشاجرة توجد قواعد الشارع. ما يليه سيكون أسوأ خمس دقائق من حياة جون موريسي لل. في الأول من أكتوبر 23, 1853, تغلب على موريسي البالغ من العمر 22 عاما يانكي سوليفان للمفصل بطولة العالم عارية في قرار المتنازع عليها. سوليفان طرقت فعلا موريسي من
وكان جاك جونسون دائما موضوعا صعبا بالنسبة لي. I admire his courage and strength in confronting hatred and bigotry in a time when doing so put his life in danger. He refused to conform and accept a position of inferiority to white Americans. بعد, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife
In this post, which was previously a podcast, we will discuss the epic sixty-one round draw between James J. Corbett and Peter Jackson in 1891. This bout prepared Corbett for his successful challenge of John L. Sullivan in 1892. على مارس 21, 1891, the most serious contender for the inactive John L. Sullivan’s world championship broke the color line to