היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and professional gloved contests from the 1850s to 1930s.
ג'ון L. סאליבן היה אלוף הלחימה מעבר במשקל כבד הפרס. 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
Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) on April 17, 1942. Zasu Pitts stars as Aunt Emma Bates. In her youth, Aunt Emma was engaged to up-and-coming professional fighter Jim O’Banion. Her sister didn’t approve of the match, so they sent her on a trip to break up the couple. Aunt Emma regretted it and starts following the career
ביום שלישי, ינואר 19, 1909, ד"ר. 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, “דנבר” אד מרטין, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. ד"ר. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
Sam McVey tired of the lack of opportunity for black fighters in the United States during the early Twentieth Century. McVey decided to leave for Europe in 1907, where he fought until 1911. McVey fought in Australia for three more years before returning to the United States. This brief highlight film from France in 1911 with “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
בדצמבר 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought the reigning lightweight boxing champion in his hometown of Boston, מסצ'וסטס. Prior to fighting Langford, most boxing experts felt Joe Gans could not be beaten in a legitimate bout. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Gans was able to break the color barrier by winning the World Lightweight Boxing Championship. Sam Langford is often considered
John Morrissey claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in a controversial bout with Yankee Sullivan in October 1853. After beating a murder charge for his participation in the murder of Bill “The Butcher” ל, Morrissey decided to defend his title against John C. Heenan, “the Benicia Boy”. “Old Smoke” Morrissey defeated Heenan in the October 1858 bout held in
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the 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 won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions of the Nineteenth Century, he did not fight very often. Hyer normally paid his bills as an enforcer for political parties in New York. במקור, הייר הפעיל את כישרונותיו עבור הוויגים אבל היה מחליף נאמנות ל- “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
באוקטובר 12, 1853, 23 ג'ון מוריסי בן ה ייפגש 40 בת “ינקי” סאליבן לאליפות תחרויות ההיאבקות האמריקנית ואולי העולם במשקל כבד. סאליבן נחשב האלוף מאז טום Hyer, שהכה את סאליבן בעבר, פרש במקום להילחם סאליבן במשחק גומלין. סאליבן טען בתואר והיה מגובה על ידי Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.
בחודש יולי 1854, עולם Bareknuckle התגוששות אלוף ג'ון מוריסי, שגם ניתק כפועל טאמאני הול, ויליאם תיגר “ביל הקצב” פול לשום מחזיק קרב רחוב חסום. התוצאה הייתה התאוששות מכות וכמה חודש נוראה לג'ון מוריסי. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a