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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting in the 19th Century and early professional boxing from 1890 till 1930.
I blandade matcher mellan brottare och anfallare, ordspråket är när brottaren får tag på anfallaren, kampen är över. I de flesta blandade matcher mellan brottare eller grapplers och boxare, griparen vinner normalt efter att ha släpat anfallaren till marken. Ray Steele besegrade Battling Levinsky. "Judo" Gene LeBell krossade Milo Savage. I modern
På fredag, November 27, 1891, den tidigare amerikanska mästaren i tungviktsbrottning Joe Acton brottades den framtida världsmästaren i tungviktsboxning Bob Fitzsimmons i San Francisco, Kalifornien. Männen brottades för en anmälan $1,000.00 purse. Acton gav vanligtvis upp storleken till sin motståndare men Acton vägde upp de 148 pund Fitzsimmons med sju pund. Männen brottades en match med två av tre fall enligt catch-as-catch-can-brottning
På November 19, 1935, professionell brottare Ray Steele mötte professionell boxare Kingfish Levinsky i en blandad brottning kontra boxning. Missouri State Athletic Commission skapade särskilda regler för matchen. Kommissarierna beslutade att matchen skulle bestå av tre minuter långa rundor som en boxningsmatch. Kommissarierna tillät Levinsky att slå även om han var på mattan. Det kunde Steele
William Muldoon was the reigning World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and a noted physical culturist, when Muldoon was engaged by John L. Sullivan’s backers to get their fighter in shape. Sullivan was the reigning World Heavyweight Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Champion. He signed an agreement to meet his toughest challenger, Jake Kilrain, in July 1889. Sullivan admitted he was in bad shape,
Tom Allen was born in Birmingham, England but fought some of his most famous fights in America. I 1867, Allen moved to St. Louis, the largest city west of the Mississippi. Allen never left and would use St. Louis as his home base to train for prizefights. Allen fought mostly in bare knuckle prizefights as American boxing would not be
No one took advantage of the No Decision era of professional boxing like Battling Levinsky. Levinsky was a skilled defensive boxer, who took little damage during his fights. When Ring Magazine asked him why he was so active, sometimes taking 3 fights in a day around New York, Levinsky said, “I like money and I never get hurt.” Levinsky was
På Januari 10, 1910, Nyligen kom polska brottare Stanislaus Zbyszko tog på Charlie “The Kid” Cutler i en bästa två-out-of-tre faller match. Cutler hade varit en boxare i en trupp som drivs av John L. Sullivan innan övergången till brottning. Medan Cutler var extremt tufft, Stanislaus Zbyszko hade brottats sedan sin ungdom. Zbyszko would use these skills to overcome Cutler
På torsdag, September 7, 1876, Tom Allen försvarade sitt World Heavyweight Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship mot engelsmannen Joe Goss. Allen, ursprungligen från Birmingham, England, bosatte sig i St. Louis, Missouri. Allen blev så småningom en U.S. Medborgare. Allen visade en strid personlighet, inuti och utanför ringen, skapa mäktiga fiender bland sportmännen i USA. Allen särskilt irriterad
På tisdag, November 18, 1884, World Heavyweight Bare-Knuckle Prizefighting Champion John L. Sullivan fought Al Greenfield at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Sullivan needed to overcome more than just his opponent in this bout. The men originally agreed to fight on Monday, November 17, 1884, but New York City authorities threatened the men with arrest. The wrangling with
Charles Henry “Jack” Blackburn achieved his greatest fame as the trainer of World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis from 1934 till 1942. Louis is widely considered to be one of the top three to five heavyweights in professional boxing history and some consider him the best heavyweight fighter. “Jack” Blackburn developed the talents of the young champion and helped him