Sullivan Wins Fight of the 19th Century

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John L. Sullivan adalah peralihan heavyweight hadiah juara pertempuran. 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

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So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942)

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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

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Gusti Juara Tinju Cuba

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Pada hari Selasa, Januari 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

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Langford Defeats The Great Gans

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Pada Disember 8, 1903, Sam Langford fought the reigning lightweight boxing champion in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. 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

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Old Smoke Defeats Benicia Boy

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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” Untuk, 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

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Heenan Loses to King in Last Bout

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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

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Tom Hyer Beats Yankee Sullivan

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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. Originally, Hyer menggunakan bakatnya untuk Whig tetapi akan menukar kesetiaan kepada “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William

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Morrissey vs. Sullivan: Fight, Then Feud

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Pada bulan Oktober 12, 1853, 23 berusia tahun John Morrissey akan memenuhi 40 tahun-lama “Yankee” Sullivan bagi Prizefighting Kejohanan Amerika dan mungkin World Heavyweight. Sullivan telah dianggap juara sejak Tom Hyer, yang telah dipukul Sullivan sebelum ini, bersara dan bukannya berjuang Sullivan dalam perlawanan semula. Sullivan mendakwa tajuk dan disokong oleh Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.

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Tammany Thugs Pembunuhan Rang Undang-undang Butcher

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Pada bulan Julai 1854, Dunia Bareknuckle Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey, yang juga berkhidmat sebagai Tammany Hall penguatkuasa, dicabar William “Rang Undang-undang Butcher” Poole untuk tidak memegang dihalang berjuang jalan. Hasilnya ialah pemukulan dan beberapa bulan pemulihan dahsyat untuk John Morrissey. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a

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