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Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and early gloved professional boxing from 1850 till 1930.
På Januari 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
På tisdag, Januari 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, en Seattle läkare och pro brottare som var tillräckligt bra för att vinna det amerikanska Heavyweight, oförklarligt valt att prova sin hand på proffsboxning. Hans motståndare var vän och sparringpartner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing 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 – På mars 21, 1891, the most serious contender for the inactive John L. Sullivan’s world championship broke the color
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, när de stannade till vid en
Sam McVey trött på bristen på möjligheter för svarta fighters i USA under början av nittonhundratalet. McVey beslutade att lämna för Europa i 1907, där han kämpade fram 1911. McVey kämpade i Australien i tre år innan han återvände till USA. Denna korta höjdpunkt film från Frankrike i 1911 med “Battling” Jim Johnson shows
På December 8, 1903, Sam Langford kämpade regerande lättviktsboxning i sin hemstad Boston, Massachusetts. Innan slåss Langford, flesta boxningsexperter kände Joe Gans kunde inte vara slagen i en legitim bout. Född i Baltimore, Maryland, Gans kunde bryta färgen barriären genom att vinna World Lätt Boxing Championship. Sam Langford is often considered
John Morrissey hävdade Världs Bare Knuckle PROFFSBOXNING Championship i en kontroversiell dust med Yankee Sullivan i oktober 1853. Efter att ha slagit en mordavgift för hans medverkan i mordet på Bill “The Butcher” Till, Morrissey beslutat att försvara sin titel mot John C. Heenan, “den Benicia Boy”. “Gamla rök” Morrissey besegrade Heenan i oktober 1858 bout held in
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “den 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
On a March night in San Francisco, heavyweight contender Marvin Hart proved pure aggressiveness could sometimes win a decision. After 20 rounds of boxing, referee Greggains, the only judge, awarded the decision over the great Jack Johnson to Hart. Hart met Johnson on March 28, 1905. Johnson entered the ring as the betting favorite. He also entered as one of
På Oktober 12, 1853, 23 årige John Morrissey skulle träffas 40 åriga “Yankee” Sullivan för den amerikanska och eventuellt världsheavyweight PROFFSBOXNING Championship. Sullivan hade ansetts mästare sedan Tom Hyer, som hade slagit Sullivan tidigare, pensionerad istället för att slåss Sullivan i ett omspel. Sullivan hävdade titeln och stöddes av Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.