Category: 早期職業拳擊史

週二, 十二月 12, 1916, 山姆·蘭福德捍衛 “Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship”, 他在二月份從山姆麥克維亞那裡贏得了 1916. 之間 1904 和 1919, 最好的非裔美國拳擊手, 或像蘭福德這樣的加拿大黑人, 被困在互相爭鬥 “有色” 錦標賽. 如果白人戰士確實與他們戰鬥, 只是為了發展自己的聲譽

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上週五, 三月 13, 1891, Jake Kilrain fought George Godfrey at the California Athletic Club in San Francisco, 加州. The men fought for a trophy and $5,000. 男子們進入擂台的時間是 9:52 比前收市價. 威廉·馬爾登, former World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, seconded Kilrain, who Muldoon trained for this fight. Muldoon trained Kilrain’s opponent, 約翰·L. 沙利文, for their 1889

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Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. 沙利文, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on

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七月 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” 即使Georges Carpentier

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在5月 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett

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上週五, 六月 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. At only 24 歲, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to

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三月 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, 內華達州. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in

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1909 看到斯坦利·凱切爾（Stanley Ketchel）繼續在中量級極限附近的所有頂級戰機上步履艱難. 三月 1909, 凱奇（Ketchel）面臨著罕見的挑戰, 當他與統治世界輕重量級冠軍費城的傑克·奧布賴恩作戰時. 奧布賴恩（O’Brien）是位精明的拳擊手, 他在第一輪比賽中就以自己的速度和難以捉摸的能力對Ketchel進行了猛擊. 儘管奧布賴恩（O'Brien）的身高優勢, 凱切爾原為

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Bob “魯迪·羅伯特（Rudy Robert）” Fitzsimmons是一位英國拳擊手, 誰贏得了無可爭議的中量級, 重量級和輕量級世界冠軍, 在20世紀初. 經常被誤認為是澳大利亞人，因為他在那裡開始了拳擊生涯, 菲茨西蒙斯（Fitzsimmons）前往美國 1890 爭取中量級冠軍. 菲茨西蒙斯站在下面 6 腳高，但是

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