Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and early gloved professional boxing from 1850 til 1930.
Janúar 5, 1900, four days before a showdown with Bantamweight Boxing Champion Terry McGovern, Featherweight World Boxing Champion George Dixon made an announcement to chill the spine of all his supporters. Dixon announced that win or lose, he would be retiring from the ring after the bout with McGovern. The last thing a manager wants to hear before a
Á þriðjudag, Janúar 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, A Seattle læknir og atvinnumaður wrestler sem var nógu góður til að vinna American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably ákveðið að reyna hendinni á faglegum box. Andstæðingurinn hans var vinur og sparring félagi, “Denver” Ed Martin, hver myndi vinna litað heiminum þungavigtar Hnefaleikar Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
In this post, which was previously a podcast, we will discuss the epic sixty-one round draw between James J. Corbett and Peter Jackson in 1891. This bout prepared Corbett for his successful challenge of John L. Sullivan in 1892. Main Content – Mars 21, 1891, the most serious contender for the inactive John L. Heimsmeistaramót Sullivans braut litinn
For the October 5, 1861 edition of the Cincinnati Daily Press, editors pulled a story off the wire service from the Spirit of the Times. The wire story reported on a fight between former English prizefighting champion Tom Sayers and current English champion Jem Mace. Both Sayers and Mace were touring with English circuses, when they stopped in at a
Sam McVey tired of the lack of opportunity for black fighters in the United States during the early Twentieth Century. McVey decided to leave for Europe in 1907, where he fought until 1911. McVey fought in Australia for three more years before returning to the United States. This brief highlight film from France in 1911 with “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
Á Desember 8, 1903, Sam Langford börðust ríkja léttur box meistari í heimabæ hans Boston, Massachusetts. Áður berjast Langford, flestir box sérfræðingar fannst Joe Gans gæti ekki verið barinn í lögmætum lota. Fæddur í Baltimore, Maryland, Gans var fær um að brjóta litinn hindrun með því að vinna World Léttur Hnefaleikar Championship. Sam Langford is often considered
John Morrissey krafa World Bare hnúi Prizefighting Championship í umdeildri lota með Yankee Sullivan í október 1853. Eftir að hafa barið morð gjald fyrir þátttöku hans í morðið á Bill “The Butcher” Að, Morrissey ákvað að verja titil sinn gegn John C. Heenan, “sem Benicia Boy”. “Old Smoke” Morrissey sigraði Heenan í október 1858 bout held in
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “sem Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
Á mars nótt í San Francisco, þungavigtar keppinautur Marvin Hart reyndist hreint árásargirni gæti stundum vinna ákvörðun. Eftir 20 umferðir box, Dómarinn Greggains, eina dómari, awarded the decision over the great Jack Johnson to Hart. Hart hitti Johnson mars 28, 1905. Johnson inn hringinn og betri uppáhalds. He also entered as one of
Á október 12, 1853, 23 year-old John Morrissey would meet 40 year-old “Yankee” Sullivan for the American and possibly World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Sullivan had been considered the champion since Tom Hyer, who had beaten Sullivan previously, retired instead of fighting Sullivan in a rematch. Sullivan claimed the title and was backed by Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.