Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Sam Langford este considerat unul dintre cele mai mari lira pentru luptătorii lire din toate timpurile. Born on March 4, 1883 în Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, he is considered the greatest Canadian boxer of all time. His fighting career stretched from 1900 la 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. He
La data de 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 was the younger brother of World Featherweight Boxing Champion Abe Attell. Monte would always be stuck in the shadow of his older brother but was a talented fighter in his own right. Monte would win the World Bantamweight Boxing Championship during his career and establish himself as a world class fighter. În 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
În timpul primei curse ca campion mondial de box la greutatea plumii, Abe Attell avea sediul în St.. Louis, Missouri. Pe lângă faptul că își are tabăra în St.. Louis, Attell și-a apărat titlul de mai multe ori la St.. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. La momentul, St. Louis era cel mai mare oraș la vest de râul Mississippi din Statele Unite. Născut 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
După cum am scris în mai multe postări, cei mai buni boxeri grei între 1900 și 1919 au fost boxerii afro-americani obligați să lupte între ei pentru “Campionatul colorat”. Chiar și după ce marele Jack Johnson a rupt în cele din urmă linia culorilor și a câștigat Campionatul Mondial al Greutății, ar apăra titlul doar împotriva concurenților albi. As a result, cei mai duri provocatori
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
Noiembrie 30, 1910, Rapoartele au venit din Anglia că fostul campion mondial la categoria grea Prizefighting Jem Mace a murit la 79 ani. Mace fost campion mondial de la 1860 la 1862 și din nou de la 1866 la 1876. După relatărilor câștigând un milion de dolari într-o carieră care a durat 1857 la 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
“Terrible” Terry McGovern sa dovedit a fi un luptător rară la rândul său, a secolului XX. În timp ce mai mici boxeri ambalat nici o putere în pumni lor, McGovern, care scalate între 110 și 126 de lire sterline, putere knock-out extraordinară posedat. “Terrible” Terry a terminat de multe ori adversarii săi în primele patru runde. Iulie 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at