Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional gloved contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
When the great Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship, the boxing establishment started searching for a “white hope” to defeat Johnson. In desperation to find someone to defeat Johnson, promoters and sports writers started lobbying former World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries to end his retirement to fight Johnson. Jeffries retired undefeated in 1905. Postquam
Per 19th century, et praemia pugnatores et duelistes ad insulas sandbaricae in Mississippi Flumine pervenerunt, circa Sancti. Ludovicus, Missouri, habere prizefights vel duellis. Auctoritates admonent de duellis usque ad mortem in quolibet loco. Autem, tum Illinois et Missouri etiam utlagetur prizefighting. Insula sanguinum in medio Fluminis Mississippi ad septentrionem urbis Downtown St.
Die Jovis, September 7, 1876, Tom Allen suum Mundum Heavyweight Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship defendebat contra hominem Anglicum Joe Goss. Allen, primum a Birminghamia, England, habitavit in St. Ludovicus, Missouri. Allen eventually factus est in US. Civis. Allen ostendit pugnax personality, intra et extra circulum, potentes hostes inter ludentes homines in Civitatibus Foederatis Americae faciens. Allen maxime irritaverunt
Die Veneris, June 10, 1910, Mundus Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel pugnavit ultimam pugnam contra Jim Smith indicta. Ketchel explicavit middleweight division, ita pugilatu auctorum idoneam aemulationem invenire contenderunt Ketchel. In tantum, 24 annorum, Ketchel dura vixit et assidue dimicavit cum prima corporis sui naufragio. Post pugnam Smith, Ketchel animo
In March 1893, ephemerides per regionem fabulam detulerunt propositus compositus inter leves mundi hodierni pugillares graves ponderis assertores Jack McAuliffe et Sancti Ludovici pugilatus instructor Mike Mooney.. Etsi par videtur inconveniens quod Mooney talis erat vilis provocator, fallacia $2500 latus est fortasse quod adduxit vindicem ad mensam. adaequatum
Nemo usus est in nulla Decision era professionalis caestu sicut Pugna Levinsky. Levinsky peritus pugilem defensus fuit, qui parum damni in pugnis suis. Cum Ring Magazine quaesivit cur tam strenuus esset, interdum captivitatis 3 pugnat in die circa Novum Eboracum, dixit Levinsky, “Pecuniam amo et numquam malum.” Levinsky erat
On March 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. 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
In July 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.” Etsi Georgius Carpentier
May 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett
The few people who know about the prizefighter Paddy Ryan probably know him as John L. Sullivan’s victim. Sullivan beat Ryan for the Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship in 1882. Carl erat vir bonus in sui juris etsi Pugnator. Carl Martii natus est 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, Novi Eboraci. Ryan notum fuit per manum eius