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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting in the 19th Century and early professional boxing from 1890 mus 1930.
Tuesday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 12, 1916, Sam Langford defended the “Dawb lias ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing Championship”, which he won from Sam McVea in February 1916. Ntawm 1904 thiab 1919, the best African-American boxers, or black Canadians like Langford, were stuck fighting each other for “Colored” Championship. If a white fighter did fight them, it was only to develop their own reputation to
Txog rau hnub Friday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 13, 1891, Jake Kilrain fought George Godfrey at the California Athletic Club in San Francisco, California. The men fought for a trophy and $5,000. The men entered the ring at 9:52 p.m. William Muldoon, former World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, seconded Kilrain, who Muldoon trained for this fight. Muldoon trained Kilrain’s opponent, John L. Sullivan, for their 1889
Yog Jake Kilrain zoo paub ua lub xeem thiab toughest challenger rau John L. Tua Sullivan hauv cov xeem yas tes mus khaws ntiaj teb championship. Dua li ntawm Kilrain lub cev tsis tuav John L. Sullivan, nws muaj ib cov hauj lwm zoo cov ua ntej thiab tom qab qhov bout nrog tus mighty Sullivan. Ntaus rau 10 ntau xyoo nyob rau hauv bouts los, Feem ntau zoo tab sis nyob Kilrain tau
Nyob rau lub Xya hli ntuj 2, 1921 hauv lub zos tsho, New Jersey, reigning ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing tau zus ib Jack Dempsey ntsib lub teeb heavyweight boxing vaj ntxwv Georges Carpentier. Kiv cua boxing ntawd sib sau kom muaj kev tshwm sim uas yuav ua rau tus thawj duas lab rooj vag nyob hauv keeb kwm boxing. Ntais ntawv yuav pom cov laus boxing adage, “Ib tug txiv neej loj zoo ib txwm neeg ntaus tau ib tug zoo txiv neej me ntsis.” Even though Georges Carpentier
Saum ntuj 11, 1900, Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing tau zus ib James J. Jeffries fought nws tus tswv James J. Corbett. Corbett nyob rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing Championship nyob hauv lub 1890s thaum ntxov. Corbett ntiav cov Jeffires kom nws npaj rau nws npe challengers powerfully built. Jeffries mus xeem yeej lub qab ntuj npe los ntawm tus txiv neej, leej twg tuav Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett
While bare knuckle prizefighter Tom Allen was born in England during 1840, he spent the majority of his adult life in St Louis after relocating to the United States in 1867. After a disappointing loss to Jem Mace in 1870, where he impressed spectators with a gallant performance in a losing effort, Allen started campaigning for a shot at American
Txog rau hnub Friday, Lub rau hli ntuj 10, 1910, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought his last fight against unheralded Jim Smith. Ketchel has cleared out the middleweight division, so boxing promoters struggled to find suitable competition for Ketchel. Ntawm xwb 24 xyoo, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 17, 1897, tam sim no ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing tau zus ib James J. Corbett nkag mus rau lub nplhaib boxing ntawm lub zos Carson, Nevada. Corbett muag rau kev sib tw ntawm tus middleweight boxing tau zus ib Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett nkag mus ua tus nyiam enjoying ob lub yuav luag nees nkaum phaus luj kom zoo dua thiab slick boxing txawj. “Ruddy Robert” raws li Fitzsimmons tau tej zaum kuj paub lub ntiaj teb Middleweight Boxing Championship nyob hauv yeej lawm
1909 saw Stanley Ketchel continue his torrid pace through all the top fighters around the middleweight limit. Nyob rau hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 1909, Ketchel faced a rare challenge, when he fought reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion Philadelphia Jack O’Brien. O’Brien was a slick boxer, who used his speed and elusiveness to pummel Ketchel in the early rounds. Despite O’Brien’s size advantage, Ketchel was
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons was an English boxer, who won the undisputed middleweight, heavyweight and light heavyweight world championships, at the turn of the 20th Century. Often mistaken for an Australian because he started his boxing career there, Fitzsimmons traveled to the United States in 1890 to campaign for the middleweight championship. Fitzsimmons stood just under 6 feet tall but