Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional gloved contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
V., April 27, 1910, reigning World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought a six-round, non-title match with African American boxer Sam Langford. Langford is one of the greatest boxers of all-time. Autem, Langford found himself frozen out of world title fights by promoters and boxers adhering to the “color line.” Promoters and boxers used the “color line” to prevent
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
In 19th century, most states banned bare-knuckled prizefighting and professional gloved boxing. Police often arrested fighter, managers, and promoters to stop prizefighting. A unique aspect of geography turned St. Louis into an ideal fight venue to get around the authorities’s activity to stop professional prizefighting. In the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, the river’s current created a handful
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
John L. Sullivan erat fortissimus pugnae praemium transeuntem heavyweight. He transitioned prize fighting from the bare knuckle era to modern boxing under the Marquis of Queensbury rules by refusing to fight in any more non-gloved bouts. Before he made this pledge, he took part in the Fight of the 19th Century with the formidable Jake Kilrain. Jake Kilrain was
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
Die martis, January 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, a Seattle physician and pro wrestler who was good enough to win the American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably decided to try his hand at professional boxing. His opponent was friend and sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
On August 11, 1915, Sam McVey pugnavit Sandy Ferguson in Boston, Massachusetts in Atlante Athletica Consociationis gym. McVey in aetate pugnavit ubi auctores omnes pugiles Africani adligat, nisi magna Jack Johnson, de pugna ad mundi pilae. McVey plerique alii magni Nigri pugnatores huius vicerunt