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Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Maximi ponderis Sam pugnatorum consideratur Langeford temporibus. Born on March 4, 1883 Superavit in Latin, Nova Scotia, he is considered the greatest Canadian boxer of all time. His fighting career stretched from 1900 ut 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Et
May 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Vindicat ad patrocinium valde atris tempore. Percussores et sordidae artes saepe obumbrabantur, qui tunc erat Americanus Champion. Jem Mace, qui existimatus est bis pugnans in Anglia Mundus Champion, signatum est in occursum Tom
Monte Attell iunior frater erat in mundo Featherweight pugilatu Champion ABE Attell. Monte semper infixa fuit ingeniosus fratre umbra iure proprio bello. Ut in mundo vincat monte Bantamweight pugilatu vitae risus ejus interdiu et statuam sibi tamquam mundi genus Pugnator. In 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. Ludovicus, Missouri. Besides having his camp in St. Ludovicus, Attell defended his title several times at St. Ludovicus’ West End Athletic Club. At the time, 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
While famous for fighting John L. Sullivan in the last world championship prizefight contested under bare knuckle rules, Jake Kilrain also took part in many gloved bouts. Prizefighting was transitioning from bare knuckle rules to gloved bouts under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules (early amateur and professional boxing) in the late 19th Century. Like Sullivan, Kilrain would fight in major
Sicut scriptum est in pluribus postibus, optimus heavyweight pugilum inter 1900 et 1919 African-Americani pugiles erant ad invicem pugnare coacti “Orbis risus”. Etiam post magnus Jack Johnson linea coloris coloris tandem fregit et Mundus Gravis VINDICIAE vicit, se solum contra albos pugnatores titulum defendere. Ex quo fit,, the toughest challengers
Sam McVey vincere in Mundus risus Colored Heavyweight Boxing in saeculum, et constringitur, ubi tria milia virorum fortium facti sunt nigri ex titulo picture. Pergit 1903 tam prospere, Vimque faciebant Mundus ipse Jacobus Heavyweight Pugilatu Vindicem. Ut daret illi parem Jeffries. Jeffries noluerunt infringere “color linea” by giving a
Novembres 30, 1910, nuntiatum est priori, ut ab Angliae World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace obiit, 79 annorum aetatis,. Erat mundi fortissimus ex Mace 1860 ut 1862 et iterum ab 1866 ut 1876. Post reportedly promerendae a million pupa in curriculo, quod pertransiri 1857 ut 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 et 126 pondo, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. In July 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at