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Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
V petek, Junij 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. Na samo 24 stara leta, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Marca 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. 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 videl, kako je Stanley Ketchel nadaljeval svoj mučen tempo skozi vse najboljše borce okoli meje srednje kategorije. In March 1909, Ketchel se je soočila z redkim izzivom, ko se je boril z vladajočim svetovnim prvakom v polteški kategoriji Philadelphia Jackom O’Brienom. O’Brien je bil uglajen boksar, ki je v zgodnjih krogih uporabil svojo hitrost in izmuzljivost, da je razbil Ketchela. Kljub O'Brienovi velikostni prednosti, Ketchel je bila
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons je bil angleški boksar, ki je zmagal v nesporni srednji kategoriji, svetovno prvenstvo v težki in poltežki kategoriji, na prelomu 20. stoletja. Pogosto ga zamenjajo za Avstralca, ker je tam začel svojo boksarsko kariero, Fitzsimmons je v ZDA odpotoval v ZDA 1890 za kampanjo za prvenstvo v srednji kategoriji. Fitzsimmons je stal tik pod njim 6 metrov visok, vendar
Novembra 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 za 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
V torek, Februar 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 osvojil ameriško Bare Knuckle Prizefighting prvenstvo v 1841. Kot večina prizefighting prvaki devetnajstega stoletja, je pa zelo pogosto, ne boj. Hyer običajno plača svoje račune, kot izterjevalca za politične stranke v New Yorku. Prvotno, Hyer employed his talents for the Whigs but would switch allegiances to the “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
Ponedeljek, Lahko 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. 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