Category: Historia ya Mapema ya Ndondi ya Kitaalamu

Mei 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

On Machi 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. 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

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

Johnny Reagan alikuwa mpiganaji muhimu huko St.. Maonyesho ya ndondi ya Louis wakati wa muongo wa kwanza wa Karne ya 20. Asili kutoka Brooklyn, Reagan alihamia St.. Louis kufundisha chini ya Jack McKenna. McKenna aliweka operesheni yake nje ya St.. Louis, ambapo mpiganaji wake alipigania huko St.. Louis’ Klabu ya West End. Reagan alikuwa bantamweight inayoongezeka wakati huo

In 1902, Bingwa wa baadaye wa Ndondi wa Uzito wa Uzito Duniani Marvin Hart alikuwa mshindani anayeongezeka. Kupambana haswa nje ya mji wake wa Louisville, Kentucky, Hart ililingana dhidi ya Kid Carter kwenye Klabu ya Wanariadha Kusini mnamo Mei 2, 1902. At 17-1, Hart alijua ushindi mwingine utasaidia sana kupata pambano la mataji mazito. Kid Carter aliyezaliwa Brooklyn alikusudia

Monte Attell alikuwa kaka mdogo wa Bingwa wa Ndondi wa Ulimwengu wa Ndondi Abe Attell. Monte kila wakati angekwama kwenye kivuli cha kaka yake mkubwa lakini alikuwa mpiganaji hodari mwenyewe. Monte angeshinda Mashindano ya Ndondi ya Dunia ya Bantamweight wakati wa taaluma yake na kujiimarisha kama mpiganaji wa kiwango cha ulimwengu. In 1904, alikuwa na umri wa miaka 19 juu-na-kuja

1909 aliona Stanley Ketchel akiendelea na kasi yake ya kutisha kupitia wapiganaji wote wa juu karibu na kikomo cha uzani wa kati. In March 1909, Ketchel alikabiliwa na changamoto adimu, wakati alipambana na Bingwa anayesimamia Taji la Uzito wa Nuru Ulimwenguni Philadelphia Jack Jack O'Brien. O'Brien alikuwa bondia mjanja, ambaye alitumia kasi yake na kutoweza kumponda Ketchel katika raundi za mapema. Licha ya faida ya ukubwa wa O'Brien, Ketchel alikuwa

Wakati wa mbio yake ya kwanza kama Bingwa wa Ndondi wa Uzito wa Dunia, Abe Attell alikuwa msingi wa St.. Louis, Missouri. Mbali na kuwa na kambi yake huko St.. Louis, Attell alitetea jina lake mara kadhaa huko St.. Louis’ Klabu ya riadha ya West End. Wakati huo, St. Louis ulikuwa mji mkubwa zaidi magharibi mwa Mto Mississippi nchini Merika. Alizaliwa Abraham Washington Attell