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Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
금요일에, 6월 10, 1910, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought his last fight against unheralded Jim Smith. Ketchel has cleared out the middleweight division, so boxing promoters struggled to find suitable competition for Ketchel. At only 24 세, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
월에 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, 네바다. 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
1909 saw Stanley Ketchel continue his torrid pace through all the top fighters around the middleweight limit. In March 1909, Ketchel faced a rare challenge, when he fought reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion Philadelphia Jack O’Brien. O’Brien was a slick boxer, who used his speed and elusiveness to pummel Ketchel in the early rounds. Despite O’Brien’s size advantage, Ketchel was
Bob “루디 로버트” Fitzsimmons는 영국 권투 선수였습니다, 확실한 미들급 우승자, 헤비급 및 라이트 헤비급 세계 선수권 대회, 20 세기 초. 그가 권투 경력을 시작했기 때문에 종종 호주인으로 오인됩니다., Fitzsimmons는 미국을 여행했습니다. 1890 미들급 챔피언십 캠페인. Fitzsimmons는 바로 아래에 서있었습니다 6 feet tall but
11 월 30, 1871, a large crowd of men boarded ten rail cars on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad as it stopped on Canal Street in New Orleans, 루이지애나. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. 루이, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
James J. Jeffries dominated American heavyweight boxing from 1899 에 1904. After winning the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship from Bob Fitzsimmons in 1899, Jeffries made 9 successful title defenses during the next five years. He retired undefeated in 1905 before be lured back for an ill-fated comeback against the great Jack Johnson. Jeffries didn’t win his bouts with superior boxing
화요일에, 2월 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast challenged World Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson for Nelson’s title at Richmond Arena in Point Richmond, 캘리포니아. The 28-year-old Nelson won the title by knocking out the great Joe Gans in 1908. Boxing experts did not expect Wolgast to defeat Nelson even though Wolgast held a newspaper decision over Nelson in 1909. Pundits
톰 Hyer는에 미국 베어 너클 Prizefighting 우승 1841. 19 세기의 가장 prizefighting 챔피언처럼, 그는 매우 자주 싸움을하지 않았다. Hyer은 일반적으로 뉴욕에서 정당 집행자로서 자신의 청구서를 지불. 원래, Hyer employed his talents for the Whigs but would switch allegiances to the “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
월요일에, 할 수있다 30, 1892, the great Peter Jackson boxed a gloved bout with former protégé Frank Slavin. Both men lived and fought in Australia, although fan interest led Jackson to tour the world to take advantage of the financial opportunities in the United States and England. As in Australia, Jackson often found white boxers unwilling to fight him. Few
생. 루이, at the beginning of the 20th Century, had a prominent professional boxing scene. Abe Attell, although born in San Francisco, was based in St. 루이. On February 1, 1904, Attell defended his World Featherweight Boxing Championship against frequent rival Harry Forbes. Forbes was also a regular on the St. Louis boxing scene. Forbes defeated Danny Dougherty for the