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Posts about 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting.
Tom Allen föddes i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han blev känd som en tungviktsbar knoge-prisfighter i Amerika. Bosätter sig i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vann American Heavyweight Championship i 1873 och höll titeln tills 1876. Han återvände till England i ett år innan han återvände till St. Louis för gott in 1878. Tillbaka
På November 30, 1871, en stor skara män gick ombord på tio järnvägsvagnar på New Orleans, Mobil och Texas järnväg när den stannade på Canal Street i New Orleans, Louisiana. Tåget fortsatte till Montgomery Station nära Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, där folkmassan lämnade regnet och tog sig in i skogen. En så udda procession
På maj 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Påståenden om mästerskapet var väldigt grumliga vid den tiden. Thuggery och smutsiga tricks dolda ofta vem som faktiskt var amerikansk mästare. Jem Mace, som ansågs världsmästare två gånger när han kämpade i England, undertecknades för att träffa Tom
På November 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 år. Mace was world champion from 1860 till 1862 and again from 1866 till 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 till 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
This post is an excerpt from the revised book Morrissey vs. Till: Politik, PROFFSBOXNING och Mordet på Bill the Butcher. 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. Emellertid, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professionella strider på 1800-talet hade ett dåligt rykte utanför
På Oktober 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 pounds. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Fans av båda männen kom in
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. I 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 runt
John L. Sullivan var övergångstungviktspris slåss mästare. 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 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