Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about bare knuckle prizefighting and early gloved professional boxing from 1850 para 1930.
In July 1854, the World Bareknuckle Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey, who also severed as Tammany Hall enforcer, challenged William “Bill the Butcher” Poole to a no holds barred street fight. The result was a terrible beating and several month recovery for John Morrissey. Morrissey would have likely won a bareknuckle prizefight with Poole, a part-time prizefighter himself. Morrissey made a
En xullo de 26, 1854, o campión implacable John Morrissey coñeceu loitador implacable ocasional William Poole nunha pelexa sen regras rúa. O que se seguiu sería os peores cinco minutos de vida de John Morrissey. En outubro 23, 1853, a 22-year-old Morrissey bater Yankee Sullivan para o campionato implacable mundo nunha decisión contestada. Sullivan realmente bateu Morrissey fóra
Sam McVey, que foi considerado o Idol de París, durante a súa carreira de boxeo de 1902 para 1921, é en gran parte esquecido hoxe. Un dos maiores pesos pesados negros de súa época, foi conxelado fóra da loita polo título mundial, mesmo despois de Jack Johnson derrotado Tommy Burns en 1908. McVey lost to Jack Johnson three times early in his career
Abe Attell foi un boxeador difícil. Gañou o Campionato Mundial de Boxeo pluma dúas veces. El e seu irmán Monte foron os primeiros irmáns a ser campións mundiais de boxeo, á vez despois de Monte gañou o Campionato Mundial Bantamweight. Abe Attell gañou o seu primeiro título, cando foi baseado fóra do West End Boxing Club en St. Louis, MO.
Ao facer a investigación, Eu atopei esta foto da formación Manassa Mauler para a súa 04 de xullo, 1919 loita polo título con Jess Willard, World Heavyweight Boxing Campións. Willard had knocked out the great Jack Johnson in 1915 to become champion. Willard era un xigante dun home ás 6’06” e 235 libras. He posed a threat to anyone based on size alone. Porén,
After Jack Johnson became champion, a lack of strong contenders caused public pressure to mount on James J. Jeffires, o ex-campión dos pesos pesados xubilado, to end his retirement and fight Johnson. Jeffries was considered the first and most credible of the “Esperanza Branca” contendentes. No seu auxe, Jeffries probably couldn’t beat Johnson. En 35 years of age and nearly 300
Jack Johnson has always been a tough subject for me. I admire his courage and strength in confronting hatred and bigotry in a time when doing so put his life in danger. He refused to conform and accept a position of inferiority to white Americans. Aínda, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife