Staraí Spóirt agus Ealaíontóir Comhraic
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and early gloved professional boxing from 1850 to 1930.
I rith an 19ú haois, bhain comhraiceoirí duaise agus duelists araon leas as na hoileáin sandbar in Abhainn Mississippi, timpeall St. Louis, Missouri, chun troideanna duaiseanna nó duels a reáchtáil. Údaráis a bheith frowned ar duels chun an bás in aon suíomh. Mar sin féin, chuir Illinois agus Missouri cosc ar chomhraic duaiseanna freisin. Oileán na Fola i lár an Abhainn Mississippi díreach ó thuaidh ó Downtown St.
On May 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
Ar Márta 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
Trodaire tábhachtach a bhí i Johnny Reagan sa St. Radharc dornálaíochta Louis le linn na chéad deich mbliana den 20ú hAois. Ó Brooklyn ó dhúchas, Bhog Reagan go St. Louis a thraenáil faoi Jack McKenna. Bhunaigh McKenna a oibríocht as St. Louis, áit a throid a trodaire go príomha ag St. Louis’ Club West End. Bhí meáchan bantam ag ardú do Reagan ag an am
In 1902, Bhí Marvin Hart, curadh dornálaíochta trom-mheáchan an domhain sa todhchaí, ina iomaitheoir ardaitheach. Ag troid go príomha as a bhaile dúchais Louisville, Kentucky, Bhí Hart ag imirt in aghaidh Kid Carter ag an Southern Athletic Club i mí Bealtaine 2, 1902. Ag 17-1, Bhí a fhios ag Hart go rachadh bua eile i bhfad chun troid teideal trom a bhaint amach. Bhí sé beartaithe ag an Kid Carter a rugadh i Brooklyn
Ba é Monte Attell an deartháir níos óige le Curadh Dornálaíochta Meáchan Cleite an Domhain Abe Attell. Bheadh Monte i bhfostú i gcónaí faoi scáth a dhearthár níos sine ach bhí sé ina throdaire cumasach ann féin. Bhuaigh Monte Craobhchomórtas Dornálaíochta Meáchan Bantam an Domhain le linn a ghairmréime agus bhunódh sé é féin mar throdaire den chéad scoth. In 1904, bhí sé 19 bliain d'aois aníos
1909 chonaic Stanley Ketchel ag leanúint ar aghaidh lena luas troda tríd na trodaithe is fearr ar fad thart ar an teorainn mheánmheáchain. In March 1909, Bhí dúshlán annamh roimh Ketchel, nuair a throid sé Seaimpín Trommheáchan Éadrom an Domhain Philadelphia Jack O’Brien. Dornálaí slic ab ea O’Brien, a d'úsáid a luas agus a dhícheall chun Ketchel a chaolú sna babhtaí tosaigh. In ainneoin buntáiste méid Uí Bhriain, Ketchel cad
Le linn a chéad rith mar Chraobhchomórtas Dornálaíochta Meáchan Cleite an Domhain, Bhí Abe Attell bunaithe as St. Louis, Missouri. Seachas a champa a bheith aige i St. Louis, Chosain Attell a theideal arís agus arís eile ag St. Louis’ Club Lúthchleas Gael. At the time, St. Ba í Louis an chathair is mó siar ó Abhainn Mississippi sna Stáit Aontaithe. Rugadh Abraham Washington Attell
Ar Dé Máirt, Samhain 18, 1884, John L. Seaimpín Trom-mheáchan Lom Trom Troda Duais Knuckle an Domhain. Throid Sullivan Al Greenfield ag Madison Square Garden i gCathair Nua-Eabhrac. Bhí ar Sullivan níos mó ná a chéile comhraic a shárú sa bout seo. D'aontaigh na fir troid ar dtús Dé Luain, Samhain 17, 1884, ach bhagair údaráis Chathair Nua-Eabhrac na fir a ghabháil. An wrangling le