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Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Txog rau hnub Friday, Lub rau hli ntuj 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. Ntawm xwb 24 xyoo, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 17, 1897, tam sim no ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing tau zus ib James J. Corbett nkag mus rau lub nplhaib boxing ntawm lub zos Carson, Nevada. Corbett muag rau kev sib tw ntawm tus middleweight boxing tau zus ib Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett nkag mus ua tus nyiam enjoying ob lub yuav luag nees nkaum phaus luj kom zoo dua thiab slick boxing txawj. “Ruddy Robert” raws li Fitzsimmons tau tej zaum kuj paub lub ntiaj teb Middleweight Boxing Championship nyob hauv yeej lawm
1909 saw Stanley Ketchel continue his torrid pace through all the top fighters around the middleweight limit. Nyob rau hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 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 “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons was an English boxer, who won the undisputed middleweight, heavyweight and light heavyweight world championships, at the turn of the 20th Century. Often mistaken for an Australian because he started his boxing career there, Fitzsimmons traveled to the United States in 1890 to campaign for the middleweight championship. Fitzsimmons stood just under 6 feet tall but
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 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, Louisiana. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. Louis, 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 mus 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
Tuesday, Lub ob hlis ntuj 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast challenged World Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson for Nelson’s title at Richmond Arena in Point Richmond, California. 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
Tom Hyer yeej cov American mus khaws khauj tsiav Prizefighting Championship nyob rau 1841. Zoo li feem ntau prizefighting champions ntawm lub xyoo pua Nineteenth, nws yeej tsis tua ntau zaus. Hyer nquag them nws tej nqi kho mob raws li tus enforcer thoj tog nyob New York. Keeb xeeb, Hyer employed his talents for the Whigs but would switch allegiances to the “Paub tias tsis muaj dab tsi los yog tus neeg” nrog nws cov phooj ywg William
Hnub Monday, Tej zaum 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
St. Louis, at the beginning of the 20th Century, had a prominent professional boxing scene. Abe Attell, although born in San Francisco, was based in St. Louis. Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 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