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Posts about 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting.
Ganed Tom Allen yn Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 ond daeth yn enwog fel gwobr ymladdwr migwrn noeth pwysau trwm yn America. Ymsefydlu yn St. Louis around 1867, Enillodd Allen Bencampwriaeth Pwysau Trwm America yn 1873 a daliodd y teitl hyd 1876. Dychwelodd i Loegr am flwyddyn cyn dychwelyd i St. Louis am dda i mewn 1878. Back
Ar Dachwedd 30, 1871, a large crowd of men boarded ten rail cars on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad as it stopped on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
Ar Fai 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Roedd hawliadau i'r bencampwriaeth yn wallgof iawn ar y pryd. Roedd triciau thuggery a budr yn aml yn cuddio pwy oedd Pencampwr America mewn gwirionedd. Jem Mace, a gafodd ei ystyried yn Bencampwr y Byd ddwywaith tra'n ymladd yn Lloegr, wedi ei arwyddo i gyfarfod Tom
Ar Dachwedd 30, 1910, Daeth adroddiadau o Loegr fod cyn Pwysau Trwm y Byd Prizefighting Pencampwr Jem Mace wedi marw yn 79 mlwydd oed. Roedd Mace bencampwr byd o 1860 i 1862 ac eto o 1866 i 1876. Ar ôl reportedly ennill miliwn o ddoleri mewn gyrfa sy'n rhychwantu 1857 i 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
This post is an excerpt from the revised book Morrissey vs. Poole: Gwleidyddiaeth, Prizefighting a Llofruddiaeth Mesur y Cigydd. The hot air laid stagnant in the room as the man in the corner tried to sleep. Giving up on the possibility of sleep, the “Troy Giant” pulled himself into a sitting position on the edge of the bed.
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Fodd bynnag,, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Roedd ymladd proffesiynol yn y 19eg Ganrif yn mwynhau enw gwael y tu allan i
Ar Hydref 29, 1868, “Irish Giant” Ned O’Baldwin and English prizefighter Joe Wormald met in a bare knuckle prize-fight outside of Boston in Lynnville, Massachusetts. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 bunnoedd. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Cyrhaeddodd ffans y ddau ddyn i mewn
On February 7, 1882, John L. Sullivan fought Paddy Ryan for a title, which was certainly the American Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship but probably not the World Title it was billed as. Yn 1880, Paddy Ryan won the title in his first and only prize fight before facing the ferocious power puncher Sullivan. The men met in Mississippi City, Mississippi o gwmpas
John L. Roedd Sullivan yn bencampwr pwysau trwm ymladd wobr trosiannol. He transitioned prize fighting from the bare knuckle era to modern boxing under the Marquis of Queensbury rules by refusing to fight in any more non-gloved bouts. Before he made this pledge, he took part in the Fight of the 19th Century with the formidable Jake Kilrain. Jake Kilrain was
John Morrissey claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in a controversial bout with Yankee Sullivan in October 1853. After beating a murder charge for his participation in the murder of Bill “Y Butcher” Poole, Penderfynodd Morrissey i amddiffyn ei deitl yn erbyn John C. Heenan, “y Benicia Boy”. “Hen Mwg” Morrissey drechu Heenan yn y Hydref 1858 bout held in