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Posts about professional boxing from 1890 mus 1930.
Txog rau hnub Friday, Kaum ib hlis 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, California. The men wrestled for a reported $1,000.00 hnab tawv pojniam. Acton usually gave up size to his opponent but Acton outweighed the 148-pound Fitzsimmons by seven pounds. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
Hnub Wednesday, Tim 27, 1910, reigning World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought a six-round, non-title match with African American boxer Sam Langford. Langford is one of the greatest boxers of all-time. Txawm li cas los, Langford found himself frozen out of world title fights by promoters and boxers adhering to the “color line.” Promoters and boxers used the “color line” to prevent
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 19, 1935, Kev wrestler Ray Steele ntsib professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky hauv ib mixed wresting versus boxing bout. Lub xeev Missouri Ncaws Commission tsim tshwj xeeb txoj cai tshwj xeeb rau ntais ntawv. Tus commissioners kav lub bout yuav consist ntawm peb-feeb rounds xws li ib boxing match. Tus commissioners pub Levinsky punch txawm tias nws nyob rau ntawm qhov mat. Steele yuav
1909 Pom Stanley Ketchel tseem nws torrid pace los ntawm tag nrho cov fighters nyob ib ncig ntawm tus middleweight txwv. Nyob rau hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 1909, Ketchel muag ib tug tsis tshua muaj kev sib tw, Thaum nws fought reigning ntiaj teb teeb Heavyweight Champion Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. O'Brien yog ib tug slick boxer, Uas siv nws ceev thiab elusiveness los pummel Ketchel nyob rau hauv cov rounds thaum ntxov. Dua li ntawm O'Brien tus loj kom zoo dua, Ketchel yog
Tuesday, Lub ob hlis ntuj 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast sib tw ntiaj teb Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson rau Nelson lub npe ntawm Richmond Arena hauv taw tes Richmond, California. Tus 28 xyoo Nelson yeej lub npe los knocking tawm tus poj Joe Gans hauv 1908. Boxing ua hauj lwm twg tsis cia siab tias Wolgast los swb Nelson txawm Wolgast tuav ib ntawv xov xwm kev txiav txim siab nyob Nelson hauv Nelson 1909. Pundits
Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 10, 1910, nyuam qhuav tuaj txog Polish Stanislaus Zbyszko coj rau Charlie wrestler “Tshis” Cutler hauv ib qhov zoo tshaj plaws ob-tawm-of-peb ntog match. Cutler muaj tau ib boxer nyob hauv ib lub troupe uas khiav los rau John L. Sullivan ua ntej uas yuav wrestling. Txawm yog tawv heev Cutler, Stanislaus Zbyszko twb tau wrestling txij thaum nws cov hluas. Zbyszko yuav siv cov kev txawj ntse rau overcome Cutler
Tsis muaj leej twg muab kom zoo dua qhov kev txiav txim siab tsis muaj kev txiav txim siab era ntawm kev boxing xws li Battling Levinsky. Levinsky yog ib tug skilled defensive boxer, Leej twg muab me ntsis puas thaum nws fights. Thaum Ring Magazine nug nws vim li cas nws thiaj li dhia, qee zaus noj 3 fights nyob rau hauv ib hnub nyob Ib ncig ntawm New York, Levinsky hais tias, “Kuv nyiam nyiaj thiab kuv yeej tsis tau mob.” Levinsky yog
Txog rau hnub Friday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 13, 1891, Jake Kilrain fought George Godfrey at the California Athletic Club in San Francisco, California. The men fought for a trophy and $5,000. The men entered the ring at 9:52 p.m. William Muldoon, former World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, seconded Kilrain, who Muldoon trained for this fight. Muldoon trained Kilrain’s opponent, John L. Sullivan, for their 1889
Charles Henry “Nkaus” Blackburn tiav nws koob meej loj tshaj li ntawm tus kws qhia rau ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing tau zus ib Joe Louis ntawm 1934 mus 1942. Louis plhuav mus yuav tau ib lub heavyweights saum peb mus rau tsib nyob hauv keeb kwm kev boxing thiab ua ib co xav txog nws qhov heavyweight fighter zoo. “Nkaus” Blackburn tsim cov talents ntawm cov hluas tau zus ib thiab pab nws
Tuesday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 12, 1916, Sam Langford defended the “Dawb lias ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing Championship”, which he won from Sam McVea in February 1916. Ntawm 1904 thiab 1919, the best African-American boxers, or black Canadians like Langford, were stuck fighting each other for “Colored” Championship. If a white fighter did fight them, it was only to develop their own reputation to