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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and early gloved professional boxing from 1850 za 1930.
During the 19th century, both prizefighters and duelists took advantage of the sandbar islands in the Mississippi River, around St. Louis, Missouri, to hold prizefights or duels. Authorities have frowned on duels to the death in any location. Vendar, both Illinois and Missouri also outlawed prizefighting. Bloody Island in the middle of the Mississippi River just north of Downtown St.
Maja 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
Marca 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
Nihče ni izkoristil obdobja No Decision v profesionalnem boksu kot Battling Levinsky. Levinsky je bil spreten obrambni boksar, ki je med svojimi borbami utrpel malo škode. Ko ga je revija Ring vprašala, zakaj je tako aktiven, včasih jemanje 3 bitke v enem dnevu okoli New Yorka, je rekel Levinski, “Rad imam denar in nikoli nisem prizadet.” Levinski je bil
Johnny Reagan was an important fighter in the St. Louis boxing scene during the first decade of the 20th Century. Originally from Brooklyn, Reagan moved to St. Louis to train under Jack McKenna. McKenna based his operation out of St. Louis, where his fighter primarily fought at St. Louis’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
V 1902, future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Marvin Hart was a rising contender. Kontakt, Kentucky, Kontakt 2, 1902. At 17-1, Kontakt. The Brooklyn-born Kid Carter intended to
Monte Attell je bil mlajši brat svetovnega boksarskega prvaka v peresni kategoriji Abeja Attella. Monte bi bil vedno zaljubljen v senco svojega starejšega brata, vendar je bil sam po sebi nadarjen borec. Monte je med svojo kariero zmagal na svetovnem prvenstvu v boksu v bantam kategoriji in se uveljavil kot borec svetovnega razreda. V 1904, bil je 19-letnik, ki je prihajal
1909 videl, kako je Stanley Ketchel nadaljeval svoj mučen tempo skozi vse najboljše borce okoli meje srednje kategorije. In March 1909, Ketchel se je soočila z redkim izzivom, ko se je boril z vladajočim svetovnim prvakom v polteški kategoriji Philadelphia Jackom O’Brienom. O’Brien je bil uglajen boksar, ki je v zgodnjih krogih uporabil svojo hitrost in izmuzljivost, da je razbil Ketchela. Kljub O'Brienovi velikostni prednosti, Ketchel je bila
Med svojo prvo vožnjo kot svetovni boksarski prvak v peresni kategoriji, Abe Attell je imel sedež iz St.. Louis, Missouri. Poleg tega, da je imel svoj kamp v St.. Louis, Attell je naslov večkrat branil v St.. Louis’ Atletski klub West End. At the time, St. Louis je bil največje mesto zahodno od reke Mississippi v ZDA. Rojen Abraham Washington Attell
V torek, November 18, 1884, Svetovni prvak v borbah z golimi členki v težki kategoriji John L. Sullivan se je boril z Alom Greenfieldom v Madison Square Gardnu v New Yorku. Sullivan je moral v tem dvoboju premagati več kot le nasprotnika. Moški so se prvotno dogovorili, da se bodo borili v ponedeljek, November 17, 1884, vendar so newyorške oblasti grozile moškim z aretacijo. Prepir z