格斗运动史学家和武术家
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional gloved contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
七月 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entered the fight for the vacant world title as a 3 至 1 underdog. Jack Root who would be the first light heavyweight championship was the favorite to succeed the recently retired James J. Jeffries. Jeffries would referee this title match to replace him. Marvin Hart had recently beaten Jack Johnson. Widely considered the
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. 然而, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. 19 世纪的职业格斗在国外声名狼藉
一月 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, 带他
十月 29, 1868, “Irish Giant” Ned O’Baldwin and English prizefighter Joe Wormald met in a bare knuckle prize-fight outside of Boston in Lynnville, 马萨诸塞州. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 英镑. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. 两人的粉丝都到场了
“Terrible” Terry McGovern earned a reputation as one of the most powerful punchers in the history of the lighter divisions of professional boxing. McGovern weighed between 112 和 126 英镑. Unlike his fellow smaller fighters, who overwhelmed their opponents with punching volume, McGovern possessed exceptional knockout power. McGovern proved his power on Tuesday, 九月 12, 1899, when he fought British
二月 7, 1882, 约翰·L. Sullivan fought Paddy Ryan for a title, which was certainly the American Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship but probably not the World Title it was billed as. 在 1880, Paddy Ryan won the title in his first and only prize fight before facing the ferocious power puncher Sullivan. The men met in Mississippi City, 密西西比州附近
An age old question in combat sports is “Who will win between a boxer and a wrestler?” The speculation around this question led to several boxer versus wrestler matches through out history, most notably the disaster between Muhammad Ali and Antonio Inoki in 1976. The matches are mostly no-win affairs except at the box office, 这就是为什么两个发起人
之后，杰克·约翰逊成为冠军, 缺乏强有力的竞争者引起了公众的压力，詹姆斯Ĵ安装. Jeffires, 退休前重量级拳王, 结束了他的退休，争取约翰逊. 杰弗里斯被认为是第一个和最可信的 “白希望” 竞争者. 在他的全盛时期, 杰弗里斯可能无法击败约翰逊. 在 35 years of age and nearly 300
四月 17, 1909, African-American heavyweight boxer Joe Jeanette met World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Champion Sam McVey for the title in a fight to the finish. Before the classic bout was complete, the men would box for 49 rounds over 3 hours and 30 分钟. From February 5, 1903, when he beat “Denver” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, 何时
约翰·L. 在他的职业生涯沙利文曾主导了奖金圈. 拥有的纪录 40 胜, 没有损失2平, “波士顿坚强的男孩” 被认为无敌. 沙利文赢得了世界冠军 1882 and dispensed all challengers culminating with the Fight of the Nineteenth Century with Jake Kilrain. 在这部史诗回合击败Kilrain后, 约翰·L.