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Posts about 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting.
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.
Mae'r ychydig o bobl sy'n gwybod am y Prizefighter Paddy Ryan yn ôl pob tebyg yn ei adnabod fel John L. Dioddefwr Sullivan. Sullivan guro Ryan ar gyfer Pencampwriaeth Pwysau Trwm Prizefighting yn 1882. Ond roedd Ryan yn ymladdwr da ynddo'i hun. Ganed Ryan ar Fawrth 15, 1851 yn Iwerddon. Roedd ei deulu ymfudodd i Troy, Efrog Newydd. Roedd Ryan yn adnabyddus trwy gydol ei
Ar ddydd Mawrth, Tachwedd 18, 1884, Pencampwr Ymladd Gwobr Pwysau Trwm y Byd John L. Ymladdodd Sullivan Al Greenfield yn Madison Square Garden yn Ninas Efrog Newydd. Roedd angen i Sullivan oresgyn mwy na dim ond ei wrthwynebydd yn y pwl hwn. Yn wreiddiol fe gytunodd y dynion i ymladd ddydd Llun, Tachwedd 17, 1884, ond bygythiodd awdurdodau Dinas Efrog Newydd y dynion i gael eu harestio. Yr ymryson â
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
Ganed Tom Allen yn Birmingham, Lloegr ond ymladdodd rhai o'i ornestau enwocaf yn America. Yn 1867, Symudodd Allen i St. Louis, y ddinas fwyaf i'r gorllewin o'r Mississippi. Allen byth yn gadael a byddai'n defnyddio St. Louis fel ei gartref i hyfforddi ar gyfer ymladd gwobrau. Ymladdodd Allen yn bennaf mewn ymladdfeydd migwrn noeth gan na fyddai bocsio Americanaidd
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 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