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Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
У п'ятницю, Червень 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. В тільки 24 років, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Березень 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Невада. 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 “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
Листопад 30, 1871, великий натовп чоловіків сів у десять залізничних вагонів Нового Орлеана, Мобільна і техаська залізниця під час зупинки на Канал-стріт у Новому Орлеані, Louisiana. Поїзд продовжив рух до станції Монтгомері біля Бей-Стріт. Луїс, Mississippi, де натовп залишив дощ і попрямував до лісу. Така дивна процесія
James J. Jeffries dominated American heavyweight boxing from 1899 для 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
У вівторок, Лютий 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast challenged World Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson for Nelson’s title at Richmond Arena in Point Richmond, Каліфорнія. 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 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. Спочатку, Hyer використовували свої таланти для вігів, але хотіли б перейти пристрасті до “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
У понеділок, Може 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
Вулиця. Луїс, на початку 20-го століття, був видатний професійний бокс сцени. Abe Attell, хоча народився в Сан-Франциско, була заснована в Санкт. Луїс. On February 1, 1904, Attell захистив світ в напівлегкій чемпіонаті світу з боксу проти частого суперника Гаррі Forbes. Forbes також регулярно на St. Луїс бокс сцени. Forbes переміг Денні Доерті для