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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and early gloved professional boxing from 1850 to 1930.
Pandan 19yèm syèk la, tou de prizefighters ak duelists te pran avantaj sou zile sandbar yo nan Rivyè Mississippi, alantou St. Louis, Missouri, pou kenbe prizefights oswa duèl. Otorite yo te vire tèt yo sou lut nan lanmò nan nenpòt kote. Sepandan, tou de Illinois ak Missouri te entèdi tou prizefighting. Bloody Island nan mitan Rivyè Mississippi jis nan nò Downtown St.
Sou Me 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
Sou Mas 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
Pa gen moun ki te pran avantaj de epòk No Decision nan boksè pwofesyonèl tankou Battling Levinsky. Levinsky te yon boksè defansiv kalifye, ki te fè ti domaj pandan batay li yo. Lè Ring Magazine te mande l poukisa li te tèlman aktif, pafwa pran 3 batay nan yon jou alantou New York, Levinsky te di, “Mwen renmen lajan e mwen pa janm blese.” Levinsky te
Johnny Reagan te yon konbatan enpòtan nan St. Louis sèn boksè pandan premye deseni 20yèm syèk la. Orijinal soti nan Brooklyn, Reagan demenaje ale rete nan St. Louis antrene anba Jack McKenna. McKenna te baze operasyon li soti nan St. Louis, kote avyon de gè li prensipalman te goumen nan St. Louis’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
Nan 1902, lavni chanpyon mondyal boksè pwa lou Marvin Hart te yon konkiran k ap monte. Goumen prensipalman soti nan vil natal li nan Louisville, Kentucky, Hart te matche ak Kid Carter nan Southern Athletic Club la nan mwa me 2, 1902. Nan 17-1, Hart te konnen yon lòt viktwa ta ale yon fason lontan nan sekirize yon batay tit pwa loud. Kid Carter ki fèt nan Brooklyn te gen entansyon
Monte Attell was the younger brother of World Featherweight Boxing Champion Abe Attell. Monte would always be stuck in the shadow of his older brother but was a talented fighter in his own right. Monte would win the World Bantamweight Boxing Championship during his career and establish himself as a world class fighter. Nan 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
1909 te wè Stanley Ketchel kontinye apante tòrid li nan tout konbatan ki pi wo yo alantou limit pwa mwayen an. In March 1909, Ketchel te fè fas a yon defi ki ra, lè li te goumen kont chanpyon Mondyal Pwa lou Lejè Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. O'Brien se te yon boksè slick, ki te itilize vitès li ak elisiveness pou bat Ketchel nan premye tou. Malgre avantaj gwosè O'Brien, Ketchel te
Pandan premye kouri li kòm chanpyon mondyal boksè pwa plim, Abe Attell te baze nan St. Louis, Missouri. Anplis gen kan li nan St. Louis, Attell te defann tit li plizyè fwa nan St. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. At the time, St. Louis te pi gwo vil nan lwès Rivyè Mississippi nan Etazini. Li te fèt Abraham Washington Attell
Nan Madi, Novanm 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, Novanm 17, 1884, but New York City authorities threatened the men with arrest. The wrangling with