Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional gloved contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
Charles Henry “Jack” Blackburn achieved his greatest fame as the trainer of World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis from 1934 para 1942. Louis is widely considered to be one of the top three to five heavyweights in professional boxing history and some consider him the best heavyweight fighter. “Jack” Blackburn desenvolveu o talento do novo campión e axudouno
O martes, Decembro 12, 1916, Sam Langford defended the “Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship”, which he won from Sam McVea in February 1916. Entre 1904 e 1919, the best African-American boxers, or black Canadians like Langford, were stuck fighting each other for “Colored” Championship. If a white fighter did fight them, it was only to develop their own reputation to
James J. Jeffries dominou o boxeo estadounidense dos pesos pesados 1899 para 1904. Despois de gañar o Campionato Mundial de Boxeo Peso Pesado de Bob Fitzsimmons en 1899, Jeffries fixo 9 defensas exitosas do título durante os próximos cinco anos. Retirouse invicto 1905 antes de ser atraído para unha remontada desafortunada contra o gran Jack Johnson. Jeffries non gañou os seus combates cun boxeo superior
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
En marzo 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
En xullo de 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.” Aínda que Georges Carpentier
Mentres o loitador de premios bare knuckle Tom Allen naceu en Inglaterra durante 1840, pasou a maior parte da súa vida adulta en St Louis despois de mudarse aos Estados Unidos 1867. Despois dunha derrota decepcionante ante Jem Mace 1870, onde impresionou aos espectadores cunha actuación galante nun esforzo perdedor, Allen comezou a facer campaña por un tiro contra American
Monte Attell era o irmán menor do campión mundial de boxeo peso pluma Abe Attell. Monte sempre quedaría atrapado á sombra do seu irmán maior, pero era un loitador talentoso por dereito propio. Monte gañaría o Campionato Mundial de Boxeo de peso gallo durante a súa carreira e estableceríase como un loitador de clase mundial. En 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
Durante a súa primeira carreira como campión mundial de boxeo peso pluma, Abe Attell estaba baseado en St. Louis, Missouri. Ademais de ter o seu campamento en St. Louis, Attell defendeu o seu título varias veces en St. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. No momento, St. Louis era a cidade máis grande ao oeste do río Mississippi nos Estados Unidos. Naceu Abraham Washington Attell
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons era un boxeador inglés, que gañou o indiscutible peso mediano, campionatos mundiais de peso pesado e semipesado, a principios do século XX. Moitas veces confundido cun australiano porque comezou alí a súa carreira no boxeo, Fitzsimmons viaxou aos Estados Unidos en 1890 para facer campaña polo campionato de peso mediano. Fitzsimmons quedou debaixo 6 pés de alto pero