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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional boxing contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
På December 8, 1903, Sam Langford kämpade regerande lättviktsboxning i sin hemstad Boston, Massachusetts. Innan slåss Langford, flesta boxningsexperter kände Joe Gans kunde inte vara slagen i en legitim bout. Född i Baltimore, Maryland, Gans kunde bryta färgen barriären genom att vinna World Lätt Boxing Championship. Sam Langford is often considered
John Morrissey hävdade Världs Bare Knuckle PROFFSBOXNING Championship i en kontroversiell dust med Yankee Sullivan i oktober 1853. Efter att ha slagit en mordavgift för hans medverkan i mordet på Bill “The Butcher” Till, Morrissey beslutat att försvara sin titel mot John C. Heenan, “den Benicia Boy”. “Gamla rök” Morrissey besegrade Heenan i oktober 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 och 126 pounds, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. På Juli 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “den 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 vann amerikanska Bare Knuckle PROFFSBOXNING Championship i 1841. Liksom de flesta PROFFSBOXNING mästare av artonhundratalet, han inte slåss väldigt ofta. Hyer betalade normalt sina räkningar som en enforcer för politiska partier i New York. Ursprungligen, Hyer anställde sina talanger för whigs men skulle byta lojalitet till “Vet ingenting Party” with his friend William
På Oktober 12, 1853, 23 årige John Morrissey skulle träffas 40 åriga “Yankee” Sullivan för den amerikanska och eventuellt världsheavyweight PROFFSBOXNING Championship. Sullivan hade ansetts mästare sedan Tom Hyer, som hade slagit Sullivan tidigare, pensionerad istället för att slåss Sullivan i ett omspel. Sullivan hävdade titeln och stöddes av Hyer, 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 “Bill the Butcher” 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
På Juli 26, 1854, the bare knuckle champion John Morrissey met occasional bare knuckle fighter William Poole in a no rules street brawl. What followed would be the worst five minutes of John Morrissey’s life. På Oktober 23, 1853, the 22-year-old Morrissey beat Yankee Sullivan for the world bare knuckle championship in a disputed decision. Sullivan actually knocked Morrissey out
Jack Johnson har alltid varit ett tufft ämne för mig. Jag beundrar hans mod och styrka i att konfrontera hat och trångsynthet i en tid när detta satte hans liv i fara. Han vägrade att anpassa sig och acceptera en position av underlägsenhet till vita amerikaner. Yet, liksom många människor han var en bristfällig människa. 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. På mars 21, 1891, the most serious contender for the inactive John L. Sullivan’s world championship broke the color line to