Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Sam Langford peetakse üheks suurimaks naela nael võitlejad kogu aeg. Born on March 4, 1883 Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, he is considered the greatest Canadian boxer of all time. His fighting career stretched from 1900 kuni 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Ta
Mail 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Claims to the championship were very murky at the time. Thuggery and dirty tricks often obscured who was actually American Champion. Jem Mace, who was considered World Champion twice while fighting in England, was signed to meet Tom
Monte Attell oli sulgkaalu poksi maailmameistri Abe Attelli noorem vend. Monte jäi alati oma vanema venna varju, kuid oli omaette andekas võitleja. Monte võidaks oma karjääri jooksul poksi maailmameistritiitli ja tõestaks end maailmatasemel võitlejana. Sisse 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
During his first run as World Featherweight Boxing Champion, Abe Attell was based out of St. Louis, Missouri. Besides having his camp in St. Louis, Attell defended his title several times at St. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. Tol ajal, St. Louis was the largest city west of the Mississippi River in the United States. Born Abraham Washington Attell
Mike “Twin” Sullivan claimed the Welterweight World Boxing Championship, when he decisioned Honey Mellody in April 1907. Possessing both heavy hands and better than normal boxing skills, Sullivan claimed victories over the great Joe Gans and future Welterweight World Boxing Champion Harry Lewis during his career. Lewis won the welterweight title, when Sullivan could no longer make the 147 pound
Kuigi kuulus võitlus John L. Sullivan viimase maailmameistrivõistlused prizefight vaidlustatud all paljaste vait reeglid, Jake Kilrain osales ka palju kinnastatud hood. Prizefighting oli üleminekul paljaste vait reeglid kinnastega hood all markii on Queensberry reeglid (alguses amatöör ja professionaalne poks) lõpus 19. sajandi. nagu Sullivan, Kilrain võitlema suuremates
As I have written in several posts, the best heavyweight boxers between 1900 ja 1919 were the African-American boxers forced to fight each other for the “Colored Championship”. Even after the great Jack Johnson finally broke the color line and won the World Heavyweight Championship, he would only defend the title against white contenders. Tulemusena, the toughest challengers
Sam McVey would win the World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Championship in an era where the three best fighters were black and frozen out of the title picture. He started 1903 out so well, he would put pressure on World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries to give him a match. Jeffries refused to break the “color line” by giving a
On November 30, 1910, aruanded tuli Inglismaalt, et endine maailma raskekaalu prizefighting Champion Jem Mace suri kell 79 aastat. Mace oli maailmameister alates 1860 kuni 1862 ja uuesti 1866 kuni 1876. Pärast väidetavalt teenida miljon dollarit karjääri, mis kestis 1857 kuni 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 ja 126 naela, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Juulil 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at