Combat Sports Historian at Martial Artist
Posts about professional boxing and prizefighting in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Sam Langford ay itinuturing na isa sa mga pinakadakilang kalahating kilong para sa pound fighters sa lahat ng oras. Ipinanganak noong Marso 4, 1883 sa Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, siya ay itinuturing na ang pinakamalaking Canadian boxer sa lahat ng oras. Ang kanyang fighting career stretch mula sa 1900 upang 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Siya
Sa Mayo 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. Sa 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, Ilog ng Misuri. Besides having his camp in St. Louis, Attell defended his title several times at St. Louis’ 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
Habang sikat para aaway John L. Sullivan sa nakaraang world championship prizefight contested sa ilalim ng hubad patakaran buko, Jake Kilrain din kinuha bahagi sa maraming mga gloved bouts. Paglaban para sa pera ay transitioning mula sa hubad na mga patakaran knuckle sa gloved bouts sa ilalim ng Marquess of Queensberry Panuntunan (unang bahagi ng amateur at professional boxing) sa huling bahagi ng ika-19 Siglo. tulad Sullivan, Kilrain nais lumaban sa mga pangunahing
As I have written in several posts, the best heavyweight boxers between 1900 at 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. Bilang isang resulta, 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
Noong Nobyembre 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 taong gulang. Mace was world champion from 1860 upang 1862 and again from 1866 upang 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 upang 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 at 126 pounds, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Sa Hulyo 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at