مورخ ورزش های رزمی و رزمی کار
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
در تاریخ دسامبر 8, 1903, سام لانگفورد حاکم قهرمان بوکس سبک وزن را در شهر خود بوستون مبارزه, ماساچوست. قبل از مبارزه لانگفورد, اکثر کارشناسان بوکس احساس جو گانز می تواند در یک جلسه مشروع نمی شود مورد ضرب و شتم. در بالتیمور متولد, مریلند, گانز قادر به شکستن سد رنگ های برنده شدن در سبک مسابقات قهرمانی بوکس جهان بود. 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” پول, 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 پوند, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. در ژوئیه 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. نوشته اصلی, هایر استعدادهای خود را برای ویگ ها به کار گرفت اما وفاداری به ویگ ها را تغییر داد “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
در اکتبر 12, 1853, 23 ساله جان مورسیه می ملاقات 40 ساله “امریکایی” سالیوان برای مسابقات قهرمانی مشت زنی حرفهیی آمریکا و احتمالا سنگین وزن جهان. سالیوان قهرمان از سال تام Hyer در نظر گرفته شده بود, که سالیوان قبلا مورد ضرب و شتم بود, بازنشسته به جای مبارزه با سالیوان در یک مسابقه برگشت. سالیوان ادعا عنوان و توسط Hyer حمایت شد, who had made peace with Sullivan.
In July 1854, the World Bareknuckle Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey, who also severed as Tammany Hall enforcer, challenged William “بیل قصاب” Poole to a no holds barred street fight. The result was a terrible beating and several month recovery for John Morrissey. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a
در ژوئیه 26, 1854, قهرمان بند انگشت برهنه جان Morrissey گاه به گاه جنگنده بند انگشت برهنه ویلیام پول در یک نزاع و جدال قوانین خیابان ملاقات کرد. بدترین پنج دقیقه از زندگی جان Morrissey چه به دنبال خواهد بود. در اکتبر 23, 1853, 22 ساله Morrissey یانکی سالیوان برای جهان لخت مسابقات قهرمانی بند انگشت در یک تصمیم بحث برانگیز ضرب و شتم. سالیوان در واقع Morrissey زدم
Jack Johnson has always been a tough subject for me. 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. هنوز, 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. در ماه مارس 21, 1891, the most serious contender for the inactive John L. Sullivan’s world championship broke the color line to