McVey KOs Ferguson

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Avgusta 11, 1915, current World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Champion Sam McVey fought Sandy Ferguson in Boston, Massachusetts at the Atlas Athletic Association gym. McVey fought in an era where promoters froze out all the African American boxers, except the great Jack Johnson, from fighting for the world championship. McVey defeated most of the other great Black fighters of this

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Sam Langford se bori proti otroku Dixie

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Kot sem že napisal v več prispevkih, najboljši boksarji v težki kategoriji med 1900 in 1919 so bili afroameriški boksarji prisiljeni v boj med seboj “Barvno prvenstvo”. Tudi potem, ko je odlični Jack Johnson dokončno prebil barvno črto in osvojil svetovno prvenstvo v težki kategoriji, naslov bi branil le proti belim kandidatom. As a result, najtežji izzivalci

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Sam McVey Puts Pressure on the Champ

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Sam McVey would win the World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Championship in an era where the three best fighters were black and frozen out of the title picture. He started 1903 out so well, he would put pressure on World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries to give him a match. Jeffries refused to break the “color line” by giving a

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Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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Septembra 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Za let, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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Dufur remizira s Coxom

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Henry Moses Dufur se je specializiral za rokoborbo z ovratnikom in komolcem, ko se je Dufur profesionalno boril v 1870-ih in 1880-ih. Rojen maja 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur se je boril predvsem na severovzhodu ZDA. On June 27, 1878, Dufur se je boril v povratnem dvoboju z rokoborcem po imenu Cox v bostonskem baseball parku pred petsto navijači. Petsto navijačev

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Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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Avgusta 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Vsaj tako sem prvotno mislil in večina zgodovinarjev je citirala. Moderno

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