Tag: 專業拳擊

七月 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” 即使Georges Carpentier

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在5月 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett

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上週五, 六月 10, 1910, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought his last fight against unheralded Jim Smith. Ketchel has cleared out the middleweight division, so boxing promoters struggled to find suitable competition for Ketchel. At only 24 歲, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to

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三月 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, 內華達州. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in

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1909 看到斯坦利·凱切爾（Stanley Ketchel）繼續在中量級極限附近的所有頂級戰機上步履艱難. 三月 1909, 凱奇（Ketchel）面臨著罕見的挑戰, 當他與統治世界輕重量級冠軍費城的傑克·奧布賴恩作戰時. 奧布賴恩（O’Brien）是位精明的拳擊手, 他在第一輪比賽中就以自己的速度和難以捉摸的能力對Ketchel進行了猛擊. 儘管奧布賴恩（O'Brien）的身高優勢, 凱切爾原為

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Bob “魯迪·羅伯特（Rudy Robert）” Fitzsimmons是一位英國拳擊手, 誰贏得了無可爭議的中量級, 重量級和輕量級世界冠軍, 在20世紀初. 經常被誤認為是澳大利亞人，因為他在那裡開始了拳擊生涯, 菲茨西蒙斯（Fitzsimmons）前往美國 1890 爭取中量級冠軍. 菲茨西蒙斯站在下面 6 腳高，但是

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詹姆斯Ĵ. 杰弗里斯稱霸美國重量級拳擊 1899 至 1904. 在從鮑勃·菲茨西蒙斯手中奪得世界重量級拳擊冠軍後 1899, 杰弗里斯製造 9 在接下來的五年裡成功衛冕. 他在不敗的情況下退役 1905 在被引誘回來對抗偉大的傑克約翰遜的命運多舛的複出之前. 杰弗里斯並沒有憑藉出色的拳擊贏得比賽

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週二, 二月 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast challenged World Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson for Nelson’s title at Richmond Arena in Point Richmond, 加州. The 28-year-old Nelson won the title by knocking out the great Joe Gans in 1908. Boxing experts did not expect Wolgast to defeat Nelson even though Wolgast held a newspaper decision over Nelson in 1909. Pundits

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週一, 五月 30, 1892, the great Peter Jackson boxed a gloved bout with former protégé Frank Slavin. Both men lived and fought in Australia, although fan interest led Jackson to tour the world to take advantage of the financial opportunities in the United States and England. As in Australia, Jackson often found white boxers unwilling to fight him. Few

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聖. 路易, 20世紀初, 有一個突出的職業拳擊場景. 安倍·阿特爾, 雖然出生在舊金山, 總部設在聖. 路易. On February 1, 1904, Attell 為他的世界羽量級拳擊冠軍辯護，對抗頻繁的對手 Harry Forbes. 福布斯也是 St 的常客. 路易斯拳擊現場. 福布斯擊敗丹尼·多爾蒂

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